Wednesday, July 11, 2012

French Fry Diary 392: Sunshine Seasons, The Land, EPCOT


The Bride gets very overzealous when it comes to Disney World. She got it in her head that we had to be at Epcot at god awful o'clock in the morning. Extra magic hours, she called it. It just meant they were open earlier for resort guests. So we rushed out, no time for breakfast, mind you, although I had been Jones-ing for that trademark Disney breakfast potatoes and bacon, and we got to EPCOT when they opened.

After doing Test Track several times (the family, not me, I have a heart condition, remember?) we were all pretty hungry, but we started to realize there wasn't any place to eat for breakfast. After consulting various apps on our iPhones and asking real human Cast Members, we were directed to the food court at the Land. The Land, on my first visit to WDW, and on my honeymoon, had terrific fries but they have since changed them. Same thing with the mac and cheese The Bride used to love. No matter, we were there for breakfast, not lunch or dinner.

The Disney Dining Plan is a wonderful thing. When you are going out to restaurants where you sit down, it rocks. It is highly recommended, especially for those experiences, I love it. However, when trying to decipher the mysteries of what constitutes a snack, or a counter service, and what you are entitled to on each… I swear you need a slide rule. What I eventually got from the Plan for breakfast I don't actually know, but I do know I walked back to my table carrying a tray with bacon and breakfast potatoes.

I was a tad disappointed in the bacon, and the bro-in-law really hated it, but since I had been waiting for bacon for nearly four hours, it was good enough for me. I received a good-sized cholesterol-threatening lump of bacon on a tiny paper plate. No real strips of the wonder food, but more like shredded pieces of it in a big mound.

The favorite fried food came in the form of diced red potatoes with just a bit of onion and pepper, served on the same sized plate as the bacon. They were soft and delicious with golden seasoning. The serving I received was quite small compared to the giant helping of shredded bacon I got, but it was still quite good. Looking at other folks' plates who got the full breakfast, I felt better as I still got much more bacon and potatoes than they did.

Still, all things considered, the family had a good breakfast, and we were all re-energized to go take on Soarin' and the rest of EPCOT.

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2 comments:

  1. Heironymous3:26 PM

    Dude, seriously? The Sunshine Seasons for any meal is an utter waste of time and of any DDP CS credit. You would have been brown bagging it from the Pepper Market Grill than doing breakfast in FW (FutureWorld). Maybe you all should have planned to do a "brunch" in France when World Showcase opened at 11am. Now, if this type of decision keeps up, you are going to start losing some serious French Fry street cred when it comes to picking spots to have a meal at WDW. Maybe you should listen to that Bro-in-law?

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  2. Unknown5:09 PM

    As I noted, I was not in the command seat when it came to event planning on this particular excursion. This was not my choice, and I did suggest heading over to France (I hear they will be doing fries in the future) or England for an early lunch, but we were all roasted by that time, so we did The Land. As I said, I haven't been fond of The Land since around 1995 or so.

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