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100 Disney Foods to Eat Before you Die Challenge
How daring have you been while eating at Walt Disney World? Are you the adventurous type who tries everything and anything? Or are you more conservative and stick with what you know and like?
We created this Disney Food Challenge to see where exactly you fall on the Disney World Food Addict Chart. Keep score how many you have tried and at the end you will be graded on how you have done.
Please note while I would love to list every item at Disney World it would be impossible. These are just some of the Signature Items at the Walt Disney World theme park that I think most people are familiar with.
Magic Kingdom
- Dole Whip – Aloha Isle
- Dole Whip Float – Aloha Isle
- Mickey Premium Ice Cream Bar – Ice Cream Carts
- Mickey Mouse Shaped Pretzel – Frontierland Pretzel Wagon
- Popcorn – Pop Corn Carts
- Hot Dog - Casey’s Corner
- Nutella and fresh fruit waffle sandwich - Sleepy Hollow
- Funnel Cake – Sleepy Hollow
- Rice Crispy Treat – Main Street Confectionery
- Hamburger and Fixins – Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and Cafe
- The ‘Plaza’ Ice Cream Sundae - Plaza Ice Cream Parlor
- Lobster Roll – Columbia Harbour House
- Mickey Mouse Waffle – Crystal Palace
- New England Pot Roast – Liberty Tree Tavern
- Ooey Gooey Toffee Cake – Liberty Tree Tavern
- Sweet Cream Cheese Pretzel – Lunching Pad
- Citrus Swirl – Sunshine Tree Terrace
Epcot
- Beverly – Club Cool
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwich - Fountainview Ice Cream
- School Bread – Kringla Bakeri Og Kafe
- Fish and Chips – Rose and Crown Pub and Dining Room
- Crepes – France
- Grey Goose Slush – France
- Grand Mariner Slush – France
- Margarita – La Cava de Tequila
- Churro – Mexico
- Caramel Corn – Karmell Kutche
- Kaki Gori – Japan
- Canadian Cheddar Cheese Soup & Pretzel Bread – Le Cellier
- Apple Cobbler – Liberty Inn
- General Tso’s Chicken Dumpling – Nine Dragons
- Soft Pretzel & German Beer – Sommerfest
- Shawarma Platter – Tangierine Cafe
- Vegetarian Platter – Tangierine Cafe
- Wood Fired Authentic Pizza Napoletana – Via Napoli
Hollywood Studios
- Butterfinger Cupcake – Starring Rolls Cafe
- Marble Cupcake – Starring Rolls Cafe
- Peanut Butter Cupcake – Starring Rolls Cafe
- Red Velvet Cheesecake – Starring Rolls Cafe
- Carrot Cake Cookie – The Writers Stop
- Grapefruit Cake – Hollywood Brown Derby
- Sterling Silver Pork Seared Tenderloin – Hollywood Brown Derby
- Cobb Salad – Hollywood Brown Derby
- Milkshake – Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater
- Angus Chuck Burger – Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater
- Aunt Liz’s Golden Fried Chicken – 50′s Prime Time Cafe and Tune-In Lounge
- Dad’s Traditional Meatloaf – 50′s Prime Time Cafe and Tune-In Lounge
- Mom’s Old-Fashioned Pot Roast - 50′s Prime Time Cafe and Tune-In Lounge
- Peanut Butter Jelly Milkshake – 50′s Prime Time Cafe and Tune-In Lounge
- Dad’s Electric Lemonade – 50′s Prime Time Cafe and Tune-In Lounge
- Chicken Curry – ABC Commissary
- Turkey Leg – Toluca Legs Turkey Co
- Honey-Hazelnut & Ricotta Cheesecake – Mama Melrose’s Ristorante
- Rosie’s 1/3 Pound Angus Onion Straw Cheddar Cheeseburger – Rosie’s All American Cafe
- Grilled Veggie Sandwich - Backlot Express
Animal Kingdom
- Jalapeno stuffed cheese pretzel – Safari Pretzel
- 1/2 Slab of St. Louis Ribs – Flame Tree Barbecue
- Smoked 1/2 Chicken - Flame Tree Barbecue
- Dim Sum Basket – Anandapur Yak and Yeti Restaurant
- Cinnamon glazed almonds/pecans – Dino Diner
- Pizza - Pizzafari
- Shrimp Po boy – Restaurantosaurus
- Hot Tea – Royal Anandapur Tea Company
- Slow roasted pulled beef sandwich – Tamu Tamu
- Zebra cupcake - Kusafiri Coffee Shop and Bakery
- Brownie paw - Kusafiri Coffee Shop and Bakery
- White Chocolate elephant cupcake – Kusafiri Coffee Shop and Bakery
- Cotton Top Tamarin Cupcake – Kusafiri Coffee Shop and Bakery
- Triple Yeti Blast – Upcountry Beverage Cart
Deluxe Resorts
- Zebra Domes - The Mara – Animal Kingdom Lodge
- Bobotie Platter -The Mara – Animal Kingdom Lodge
- Barbecue Beef Short Ribs - Jiko – The Cooking Place – Animal Kingdom Lodge
- Indian Style Bread service - Sanaa – Animal Kingdom Lodge
- Tandoori Chicken/Lamb/Shrimp - Sanaa – Animal Kingdom Lodge
- Kitchen Sink – Beaches & Cream – Beach Club Resort
- Tonga Toast - Kona Cafe – Polynesian Resort
- Macadamia Nut Pancakes - Kona Cafe – Polynesian Resort
- Kona Coffee - Kona Cafe – Polynesian Resort
- Lapu Lapu - Kona Cafe – Polynesian Resort
- Pele’s Fire Punch - Spirit of Aloha Dinner Show – Polynesian
- Kilauea Volcano Delight Dessert - Spirit of Aloha Dinner Show – Polynesian
- Honey Coriander Chicken Wings - OHana – Polynesian Resort
- Bread Pudding with Banana Foster Sauce - OHana – Polynesian
- Smoky Portobella Mushroom Soup - Artist Pointe – Wilderness Lodge
- Canyon Skillet - Whispering Canyon Cafe – Wilderness Lodge
- Sushi - California Grill – Contemporary Resort
- Goat Cheese Ravioli - California Grill – Contemporary Resort
- Strawberry Soup - 1900 Park Fare – Grand Floridian Resort & Spa
- The Grand Sandwich - Grand Floridian Cafe – Grand Floridian Resort & Spa
- Deconstructed Beef Wellington - Yachtsman’s Steakhouse – Yacht Club Resort & Villas
Moderate Resorts
- Beignets – Sassagoula Floatworks and Food Factory – Port Orleans French Quarter
- Fried Chicken - Trails End Buffet - Fort Wilderness Campgrounds & Cabins
Value Resorts
- Tye Dye Cheesecake – Pop Century Food Court – Pop Century Resort
- Orange Creamsicle – Silver Screen Spirits – All Star Movies Resort and other locations
Downtown Disney
- Chocolate Covered Pretzels – Goofy’s Candy Company
- The Original 1762 – Earl of Sandwich
- Hot Fudge Sundae - Ghirardelli Soda Fountain
- Chocolate Extinction – T-Rex
- Sparkling Volcano – Rainforest Cafe
- Doh Bars – Cooke’s of Dublin
Download the PDF - ChipandCoFoodChallenge.
So how did you do? Lets look at the scoring chart below:
1-25 – Disney Noobie: You need to be a bit more adventurous and really branch out at Disney World. Try new things, use those snack credits to their fullest.
26 – 50 – Disney Foodie in Training – Getting better. You probably have kids and are stuck visiting the Buffets every visit. You drool over Disney Food Photos and have a mental checklist of things you want to try.
51 – 75 – Disney Foodie – You have been around the park. You know what you like and try to get out and try new things all the time. You probably blog about Disney or fill your Facebook wall with articles from Chip and Co or Disney Food Blog 
76 – 100 – Disney Food Addict – Someone get this person a Dole Whip cause you have earned it! You are the Elite! People come to you when they have food questions. We need for you to join us on the site and blog about Disney Food for a living!
Let us know how you did in the comment box below!
Disney DIY: Using Your Passporter as a Journal & Scrapbook
After posting on my photoblog about all of my Disney DIY exploits I started to get a lot of comments from people who felt like they would love to scrapbook their Disney trips but just couldn’t find the time to sit down and scrap. Additionally, I found that a lot of people also felt like the couldn’t commit the kind of funds that it takes to make a really personalized scrapbook. I started thinkign about how I could help these people and thought that a Passporter is the answer.
Here at Chip & Co we love Passporters and have written about them time and time again. Check out the review of this years guide here. It seems to me that this is the answer. Although, I never end up using them there are awesome pages in your Passporter SET ASIDE just for adding your trip photos! Plus, if you are using your passpockets you are creating journal entries of each day on your own! And there is space for you to squeeze in about 2 weeks of Disney vacation memories– whether you take one long trip, or like I do take a few shorter trips each year.
Another great idea would be having a different member of your family write up the journaling info for each day of your trip so you could look back and see how your son felt eating at Chef Mickey’s or your daughter felt riding Dumbo for the first time. No matter how you journal or scrapbook your magical Disney vacations, whether its in a huge book or on a budget, the Passporter is a great place to start.
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What is Disney Photo Pass?
Many people traveling to Disney World for the first time always ask us about Disney Photopass. What is it? How do you use it? What does it cost? We want to answer some of your questions and share some of our experience with it.
Simply photopass is a photography service set up by Disney throughout the parks as well as at some resorts where you can have a Disney photographer take pictures with a professional camera which are than uploaded to a “cloud” and scanned onto your Photopass card (a free credit card sized card with a bar code and unique number sequence on the back). You can have the card scanned multiple times and purchase pictures from your trip at Disney and off the computer once you get home by using the scanned card.
More complicated is factoring in the price- is it WORTH it to order your photopass CD or buy pictures? That is where it comes down to preference. What is great about the Photopass photographers is that if you let them take your pictures and scan your card they will almost always take one with your personal handheld camera as well. They are also at the best photo spots in the parks. Personally, I find that I NEVER regret pre-purchasing the CD. It saves you $50 off of the usual price of $150 and you can come home, add signatures and borders, and then create as many different variations of images as possible. In a four day trip my husband and I came home with over 300 pictures not counting the duplicates I created with borders!
Disney has now thrown another complication into the mix with Photopass+. This is an added feature that would allow you to ALSO add all of your ride and character dining pictures to your Photopass account. The catch: it costs $199.95 and you can not get the pre-order discount like you can on the regular Photopass CD. This one you would really need to think about whether or not your family is utilizing the attractions and restaurants in the program. The dining locations included in Photopass+ are: 1900 Park Fare, Ohana (breakfast), Tusker House (breakfast), Chef Mickey’s, Spirit of Aloha, Cinderella’s Royal Table, Hoop de do Revue, and Akershus. The attractions include in Photopass+ are: Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, Buzz Lightyear, Tower of Terror, Rock’n Rollercoaster, Dinosaur, and Expedition Everest. I think it is important to note that not all ride pictures come out good, sometimes other groups are blocking you or you are looking down and its not something you would have otherwise paid for. Additionally the photos included in character meals are the ones when you first enter, Photopass photographers do not walk around and take your pictures while the characters mingle.
Even with the basic photopass some rides (the only one that currently comes to mind is Test Track) and on certain tours (like Animal Kingdom’s new Wild Africa Trek) you will have a photographer with you or be able to scan your card to add your picture to your account. Each park also has a “special” picture or two where you will be posed in a certain way and have animated friends added to your images when you look at them later (we’ve gotten Tinkerbell, Stitch, Simba, Mickey & Donald hang gliding, and a bunch of balloons carrying us away).
Here are examples of classic shots from each of the parks (I used Picnik to turn the 4 pictures into a strip and make them have a vintage look):
When push comes to shove the bottom line is that you know your family best and how you take pictures so think about what you would gain and how you would use those images later before you make your final call!
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Disney World Fastpass 101
There seems to be a lot of confusion lately over Disney World Fast Pass. With the new enforcement rule on FastPasses to how to even use them. I thought this might be a good time to go over all the details in one post so we are all on the same page.
How To Use Disney’s FASTPASS Service:
- Look for the “Disney’s FASTPASS Distribution” sign near the entrance of an attraction.
- Check the “Return Time” displayed on the sign or get an idea from different mobile phone apps.
- The sign will indicate the time you would return to enjoy the attraction using a FASTPASS ticket.
- For attractions, the return time is a one-hour window (e.g., 1:10 p.m. to 2:10 p.m.), so you don’t have to be there exactly at a given time. For shows, your return time will be for a specific performance.
I have heard various reports where people have gone in past the FastPass time and the Cast Member still let them in. This is one of those things it all depends on the Cast Member at the entrance. I wouldnt push your luck though.
Please keep in mind:
- FASTPASS tickets are only valid on the day of issue.
- Everyone in your party using the FASTPASS entrance must have a FASTPASS ticket.
- There’s a limit to the number of FASTPASS tickets you may have at one time. On your ticket will be printed the time at which you can get your next one. Disney’s FASTPASS Service machines won’t issue another ticket until the time stated on your current one.
- Times vary (1-2hrs) depending on which ride or attraction you just received a Fastpass for. Just check your ticket for exact time you can get another Fastpass Ticket.
I hope this helps iron out any kinks or questions you might have about Fastpass. If you have any questions please let us know.
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Accessible Ride Vehicles at the Magic Kingdom
Walt Disney World has made it possible for people with all kinds of abilities to visit and experience the magic. One of the things that makes my visits easier is that Disney has implemented ways for you to stay in your wheelchair to experience certain attractions if you are unable to transfer.
I have found the accessible ride vehicles very easy to use with minimal assistance. Below is a rundown of these attractions at the Magic Kingdom.
The Walt Disney World Railroad is accessible through either the Main Street or Frontierland stations. Just let the cast members know you need to use the ramp to board the train and they will lead you to the wheelchair seating. I love riding the train because you get to sit up front near the conductor.
The Magic Carpets of Aladdin has an accessible vehicle, just enter through the standard queue and let the cast members know you would like to stay in your wheelchair.
The Jungle Cruise has a boat with a ramp and a lift. Loading is really easy and you will have a great view since the lift keeps you higher than the other guests that are seated around you.
To ride the Liberty Square Riverboat enter through the exit. Once you are at the boat the cast members will place a ramp down for you to ride. We rode up at the front of the boat. Just be aware that its not flat so make sure your brakes are working properly.
It’s a small world has a separate wheelchair entrance and a boat that is just for wheelchairs. They place rubber bumpers in front of and behind your tires so you stay secure. Sometimes there is a wait for the wheelchair boat to cycle through but we are usually rewarded with a solo cruise through the attraction.
The Many Adventures of Winne the Pooh accessible vehicle lets you roll right in. You can also choose whether or not to bounce with Tigger, which moves the vehicle slightly but there are no major bumps or jerks.
Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin has a special ride vehicle with a ramp that you and one guest in your party can use. If the cast members are fast enough getting the ramp down the ride doesn’t even stop. And if you are lucky and there are no other wheelchairs waiting, you may even get to ride again.
Stitch’s Great Escape has special wheelchair seating in the back and you can still experience everything. Whether or not that is a good thing is up for debate but the cast members will help you lower the shoulder harness so you can hear and smell it all.
Shows like The Country Bear Jamboree, Monster’s Inc Laugh Floor, Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress, Mickey’s Philharmagic, The Hall of Presidents, and the Enchanted Tiki Room have special wheelchair seating. Just alert a cast member when you arrive. There is also special wheelchair seating at the Magic Kingdom parades. You can view my tips for parade viewing in a wheelchair here.
For more information for you can visit the Walt Disney World site for Guests with Mobility Disabilities and view the Guide for Guests with Disabilities for the Magic Kingdom online. You can also e-mail me at mel@chipandco.com
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