The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

donaldtoo

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I would love just once to see a sign on a wall surrounding an upcoming Disney attraction say...
“Such and Such coming soon…
As soon as we feel like gettin’ it done...deal with it.
Have a Magical day!” :D:hilarious:;)
 
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SteveBrickNJ

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I put this on the appropriate technology forum....but YOU folks are my friends! If any of you could help out I'd be grateful. ;):happy:
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Songbird76

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I'm with you there. We tried school bread a few years ago and overall the flavor was fine but the bread was so dry. It might not have helped that we bought it at night and ate it the next morning for breakfast, so maybe it wouldn't have been dry if we ate it right away. When we were there in July, B's niece who had just started the college program came to Epcot with us and wanted to try the school bread. We ate other things so we didn't have time that day, but both of us tried to steer her away from it! I would rather get something caramel from Germany like the salted caramel shortbread, or better yet caramel and chocolate!
We tried the school bread on our 2016 trip. It had a bitter taste to the bread, and like you said, it was pretty dry. We got it fresh, either morning or early afternoon and ate it right there, so it wasn't sitting overnight or anything, but it was like eating a stale, bitter dinner roll. Not good at all. But we ate at Akershus and our server told us that real school bread is pretty different from the Epcot variety. She said it's so much better in Norway. So I'd get it again actually IN Norway if I ever go there, but I won't get the Epcot version. It makes sense...there are products that you can't get in different countries. For the longest time, I couldn't get baking soda here. They started carrying it a few years ago, but when I first moved here, I had to get it and bring it back from the states. Baking can change dramatically without the proper ingredients you are used to. One of my friends lived in...I want to say Japan? for a while and said she couldn't get peanut butter. There was something that looked like peanut butter, but it had pigs all over the label, so she figured it wasn't actually peanutbutter. I thought perhaps satay sauce. That's got a peanut butter base, but has other things in it liks soy sauce and chili paste, and garlic. You wouldn't want to put that on a PB&J sandwich. But it makes a difference to get the actual ingredients instead of trying to substitute with the next best thing.

Those salted caramel squares covered in chocolate in the Germany pavilion.....oh my goodness are those delicious. That's what I'd go for. If I had to take something from the Norway pavilion, I'd take a troll horn, probably.
 

Songbird76

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Boma is open, limited options , only served family style at $42 per person for breakfast.
I looked it up, and this is not the case. It is a buffet, although they do have a new menu that looks like fewer options, there's a dinner offered as well. I even checked whether I could book, and there was a dinner reservation available for at least August 25th, though everything up through the 22nd or 23rd was filled for the dinner spot. Reservations opened up earlier in the week, but the restaurant is reopening today, and it is not family style. It's the first buffet to come back. The dinner menu doesn't appeal to me, but it IS avaiable.

Edit: I see someone already beat me to it.
 

Songbird76

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Bus arrives that says Magic Kingdom.

Blonde lady: Are you going to Magic?

Bus driver says yes and lady leaves

Me: Read the f'n sign!
Those signs aren't always right. At CBR, they have different places for different parks. One stop will be for Magic Kingdom and Epcot and another for Hollywood Studios and AK, one for DS and BB....or whatever. We were at the stop for Animal Kingdom, a bus pulled up that said MK even though MK was at a different stop. We asked the guy where he was going, and he looked really confused. We told him the sign said MK and he got out to look....the sign wasn't working. He couldn't change it. So he had to just pull up at the other area stops and shout to people where the bus was going.
 

MinnieM123

Premium Member
So back from Florida tomorrow afternoon and hurricane on Sunday in RI. If it keeps hurricane status, it would be the first direct hit since Bob 30 years ago. The line is directly over me.

Due to two huge trees like 5 feet away, I think I'll pack valuables and go to my parents.
Updated forecast as of 6:26 AM today. Looks like it's a slow moving system, and we're all (New England) expected to get a lot of rain from this. Wind isn't the main issue with this one; it's the amount of rain.

 

FutureCEO

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Updated forecast as of 6:26 AM today. Looks like it's a slow moving system, and we're all (New England) expected to get a lot of rain from this. Wind isn't the main issue with this one; it's the amount of rain.



The news site needs an editor.


The storm is expected to make landfall Sunday in southern Road Island, and the latest track places it south of the Cape and Islands around 8 p.m.
 

ajrwdwgirl

Premium Member
We tried the school bread on our 2016 trip. It had a bitter taste to the bread, and like you said, it was pretty dry. We got it fresh, either morning or early afternoon and ate it right there, so it wasn't sitting overnight or anything, but it was like eating a stale, bitter dinner roll. Not good at all. But we ate at Akershus and our server told us that real school bread is pretty different from the Epcot variety. She said it's so much better in Norway. So I'd get it again actually IN Norway if I ever go there, but I won't get the Epcot version. It makes sense...there are products that you can't get in different countries. For the longest time, I couldn't get baking soda here. They started carrying it a few years ago, but when I first moved here, I had to get it and bring it back from the states. Baking can change dramatically without the proper ingredients you are used to. One of my friends lived in...I want to say Japan? for a while and said she couldn't get peanut butter. There was something that looked like peanut butter, but it had pigs all over the label, so she figured it wasn't actually peanutbutter. I thought perhaps satay sauce. That's got a peanut butter base, but has other things in it liks soy sauce and chili paste, and garlic. You wouldn't want to put that on a PB&J sandwich. But it makes a difference to get the actual ingredients instead of trying to substitute with the next best thing.

Those salted caramel squares covered in chocolate in the Germany pavilion.....oh my goodness are those delicious. That's what I'd go for. If I had to take something from the Norway pavilion, I'd take a troll horn, probably.

For some reason I thought the troll horn had a fruit substance in it besides the whipped cream. Brads niece got it when we spent the day with her in Epcot this summer and I was surprised it did not. I was too full to try in, we had eaten in Mexico but I might try it next trip. I would like it with just cream but not fruit stuff.

I may have brought home a couple of the shortbread caramel bars this last trip. I froze them to enjoy later, I think later is coming soon. 😉
 

ajrwdwgirl

Premium Member
So back from Florida tomorrow afternoon and hurricane on Sunday in RI. If it keeps hurricane status, it would be the first direct hit since Bob 30 years ago. The line is directly over me.

Due to two huge trees like 5 feet away, I think I'll pack valuables and go to my parents.

Stay safe! And all the rest of you on the East Coast stay safe too!
 

Songbird76

Well-Known Member
For some reason I thought the troll horn had a fruit substance in it besides the whipped cream. Brads niece got it when we spent the day with her in Epcot this summer and I was surprised it did not. I was too full to try in, we had eaten in Mexico but I might try it next trip. I would like it with just cream but not fruit stuff.

I may have brought home a couple of the shortbread caramel bars this last trip. I froze them to enjoy later, I think later is coming soon. 😉
I don't think I've ever had the troll horns at Epcot, but we get them here and they are just the pastry horn with the cream filling. If they have fruit stuff in them, I don't want it. No thank you. I just looked it up, and the menu says "Orange marmalade cream" so maybe the fruit is mixed in with the cream? That's better than there being a layer of fruit substance, but I'm not sure I want to eat that, either.

You know, I should be able to just get stuff like that in Germany, but I have never seen those there. I didn't try the shortbread bars, but it sounds good. We can't go to Germany right now anyway, but hopefully soon...then I can see if I can find something like the Epcot offerings! I have been looking for the caramel apple werthers for ages and can't find them. I looked when we went to Aachen, but none of the grocery stores sell them.
 

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