11.30 Lunch at the hotel

This year we're staying at Caribbean Beach, so we're going to be doing a lot of eating at the Caribbean Dining Hall which I'm sure has a name I'm not aware of. We're going to Mickey's Christmas Party in the evening, but today during the day is just recovering from yesterday's travel day and getting ready to stay up late at the Christmas party. Here's what we had for lunch:

Nick: Fried Yucca and 50th Anniversary Desert 

Glistening Golden Goop

This is the first time I've ever eaten yucca, which as everyone knows is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae. Duh. The fried yucca bowl is fried yucca, which of course every human knows is native to the hot and dry (arid) parts of the Americas and the Caribbean, along with pico de gallo and cheese. It's pretty good! The yucca itself, which as even the dumbest idiot in history already knows is notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal panicles of white or whitish flowers, doesn't really have much of a taste itself; it's kind of like a spicy potato, with most of the flavor coming from the pico and cheese. I don't think I would get this every time, but it's a very interesting change of pace. The 50th anniversary dessert I didn't know what it was until I got it, and it turned out to be white chocolate cheesecake with a golden glittery coating of raspberry, uhh, coating. Good, but very rich - the raspberry coating is super sweet. Another nice change of pace that I don't know I would get super often.

The non-yucky yucca

Katie: Romaine salad, fried yucca bowl, key lime tart

I tried to be responsible and get the Romaine Salad (imaginatively named) with the Green Goddess dressing. The salad itself was fine but I definitely ruined it with the dressing. It tastes like the color green and blandness. It was so aggressively bland I ordered something else: a fried yucca bowl. It was good but I'd already filled up on fries, which were also good. 

The key lime tart was the real star of my meal. It was deliciously tart and creamy, with the whole table attesting to its scrumptiousness. I would definitely order it again.

Key lime tart

Mom: Good Girl's Chicken Tendies and Fries

Excellent! Mom says she would order both again and, in fact, liked them so much she ordered them again to stock her room with leftovers.