Welcome to another Universal Orlando Podcast, I'm Nick. And I'm Melody. Who knows if we'll even hear those two intros. Probably not. We have stuff to talk about. Why do you sound like this? Because this is the second time we're doing this. Oh. Then why do you sound just as tired as the first time? Because I'm tired. Oh my word. Summary. Uh, we ate food at Universal. Yes. Yeah. Alright, that's it. That's the episode. Bye bye. Another stuff. Small talk. You had small talk yesterday. I did.
Do you have any more small talk since yesterday? We got a picture frame. I got a picture frame. I got a picture frame. No, you put no effort in getting the picture frame. All you do is put it up. I okayed the purchase. I then hung the picture frame. Ooh. And then I selected 157 pictures to go in the picture frame. You did not. I selected 30 of those. So you selected 120. Huh? Huh? What do you mean you selected? I put in 30. Why did you pick that picture? I picked a lot of pictures.
Gonna have to elaborate. It's fitting. Oh. If anybody's wondering, it's just Melody sitting on the couch staring meanly at me, but it's very zoomed in. What now? Whatever. What? What'd you find? No, it's just the same picture. Did you find the other thing that I put in there? There's another annoying picture in there? It's universal related. What does that mean? What it means? It's not loading. Uh huh. You'll find it eventually. Ugh. Oh, it's an electronic photo frame.
Yes, we got an electronic photo frame. Because she's too lazy to just, you know, print out the photos herself. That costs more in the long run. So what if the power goes out? You don't have any of your photos. Small talk is now over. Small talk is not over. On our way home last night. Oh. I figured out how, so I took a nap on the way home. Oh. Yes. And I told Melody, hey I'm gonna take a nap now. And she begrudgingly said okay. I put it down halfway. No, I don't even think you knew I took a nap.
I kind of figured you were falling asleep. I mean I put the seat down, which you apparently didn't even hear me do. I might have like heard you shuffle. I was more focused on the road because there was really really heavy traffic. Yes. So I always, sorry, she hates it when I do that. She hates it when I live. That's gonna be kept in now then because of it. Makes sense. So I woke up with like 30 minutes left in our trip and then she goes oh you were asleep. I'm like yeah.
And I'm like I'm gonna go back to sleep. And then you begrudgingly let me go back to sleep. But then I was like you know what, can my seat go down further? I figured out it can go all the way down. It hit the bottom. I'm like please don't break. It did not break. Good. Anyways, moving on. Socials. Oh yes. We're on Instagram and Twitter slash X, you can find us at another Universal podcast on Instagram and on Twitter slash X you can find us at another UO pod.
Cool. So we went to Universal yesterday. And Nick just nearly dropped his phone. Yes I did. Good job. So we'll give you a little bit of a trip report because it was a very busy day. It was a little different than a normal day. Left the house at 6am because it takes about an hour to get there, got there at 7am. Proceeded to go on the pass holder entrance line and sit there and wait for an hour. We expected to be let in before the normal crowd because... It's happened to us before.
It's happened to us before where we get there. And then they start scanning in the pass holders before they do the opening ceremony for the park and they kind of like hold us at a certain spot and then... It's kind of like at the pillars. Yeah. And then when they open the park they let all the pass holders go and then they start scanning in normal people. They did not do that this time. No. They just let everybody in all at the same time. Ten minutes early. Ten minutes early.
But since we were, you know, halfway back in the line... Not half. We were like 20 people back from the front. Not too far, but... Not too far, but... Enough where by the time we got through a lot of people have been let through. Yeah. So my normal plan of getting on Hagrid's and only, you know, taking the time it takes to walk through the queue to get onto the ride, it took us about 20 minutes to get onto the ride. And then after Hagrid's we went on... No. She's shaking her head.
This is why we have notes. I don't follow directions. On the way to Hagrid's... Oh yes, that's you. On the way to Hagrid's there is a family that had like two older kids, like probably around like eight, ten-ish, and they had like a really large wagon stroller type thing. This is relevant. Anyway, they were in like the same path holder line as us, so I think we just noticed them beforehand just because. But on the way there they happened to be in front of us still while walking through the park.
And then we see them just randomly pull off to the side, leave their stroller thingy by Hoppin Pop, the ice cream place, and then just continue on and trying to rush even more to Hagrid's. We're like, oh. They just abandoned their stroller, their wagon stroller. I was like, oh, I didn't realize Hagrid's was that important. Mm-hmm. Okay. By the time we got off Hagrid's it was already at 120 minutes. 50. 150. It went down 120 a little later.
Yeah. Anyways, got off Hagrid's, good ride, went on a Velocicoaster expecting it to be a 25 minute wait, and then no, 45. It was about, yeah, it said it was about 40. We go outside into the extended queue. Very short extended queue. Still it was the extended queue. Okay. And I'm like, oh, this isn't 45 minutes. Looked on the app and now it said 65. Oh. We were in line for what, 35 minutes maybe? Probably. Probably 40. But we also waited in the front row. Well, I'm not counting that.
Oh. Once I'm there I don't count it. That was probably another 10 minutes. I am proud of Nick. Oh, yes. I got him to put his hands up for the Mothosaurus roll. Never again. Describe how it felt. Terrible. I felt like I was going to die. Why? Scary. Spooky. So there's no specific kind of reason? No, I didn't get that feeling of being flung out like you stated. Okay. I feel like I'm going to be launched right into the water. It's not good. No, it's because it's the way it spins you.
I feel like it's just going to go whoop and you just. One day it is going to do that. Well, you put your hands up once. You don't have to do it again. I will because it's more fun. Good for you. I will never do it again. That was spooky. Moving on. Now I need to consult the notes because I don't remember. We rode Spider-Man. Yes, did Spider-Man. Went over to studios around 10 o'clock. Got on Rip Ride Rocket because we saw it was only what a 15 minute wait? Yeah. Which it was. Did that.
We were confused at first in the line because we were watching the videos expecting to make fun of the whole Asta thing. But they didn't. No, they didn't. It was like, let's hit it. And then it just cut off and then would replay the video after that. Like, oh, I guess they took that away. That's weird. But then once you get to the stair steps that lead up to the train loading area. That's when they started saying it. I was like, oh, never mind. I guess they just. Maybe people were complaining.
It's a weird thing to complain about, though. No, it's not. They say Asta every like five seconds. Yeah, but they also say, let's hit it. It gets annoying. Yeah, because it's a short clip that's played in the area that you're going to be standing in for a long time. Anyway, so I did the secret menu. I got my song, but you. Mine didn't work. Did not. Even though I pressed enter. So you got the screen to come up. You typed in your number. I clicked enter.
I got the doodoo doodoo sound that sounded like a confirmation. I turned and asked, like, OK, I made a sound, but like the screen didn't change. And you're like, is the number showing you when you were on it? You did not say your screen didn't change. Oh, well, I only had like 10 seconds to tell you that the screen didn't change. Well, whatever you're like, it's a number there. I was like, technically, yes, because I typed it in. It didn't go away when I clicked enter.
If you would have said all that, I would have said enter again. I was worried that if I if it was working, if I had hit enter, it would make it not work anymore. That's not how that works. Well, that's what happened. OK, moving on. We started getting the food after that. Yes, went over to the. But we decided to get drinks first. Can I talk? You are going out of line because we went over to the Canada booth and then I proceeded to buy four Mardi Gras cards. Yes, it was expensive.
And we proceed to also forget to get an extra food card. Yes, we were going to get one more and we forgot. So I proceeded to get four cards of the passholder one, the 120 for spend 120 get 150. Really good deal. And we're saving in the long run, one hundred and twenty dollars plus all the discounts with our pass. Well, you would get that even if I just use my credit card. Yes, you're saving one hundred and twenty bucks. Yes, but we spent a lot.
I look at it is I was going to spend that money no matter what ish. Probably maybe, hopefully. And was that and they don't have like expiration dates, right? They don't have expiration dates. I can use it in city walk. I can use it in the park. So spend a lot at one time, but get a really good discount. Yeah, instead of spending less and like shorter amount of times, but still ending up spending more. Pretty much. It lets me get one hundred and twenty dollars worth of food for free.
So theoretically, if you look at it, the first day we went, I technically ate for free. Yeah, because I we paid ten dollars. We had like twenty dollars left on the card. Hopefully. I did put some tips on the card. Oh, OK. Yes, you can tip on the Mardi Gras cards. But it would have taken it out, wouldn't it? Not immediately. It goes through once they do it at the end of the day. OK, because they have to manually put it in. What would have happened if you ran out on the card? I don't know.
Did they not get tipped? Probably not. Oh, well, that's the one thing I hate about tipping on the Mardi Gras card. Well, we had money left over, so it would be fine. Yep. Anyway, it was. We didn't get any food at the Canada location. Anyway, so we started. Is this an order? OK, so we were going to meet up with the explorers. Yes. Yeah, that was the whole reason for the trip. They messaged us one day, like, hey, you going to Mardi Gras?
And we're like, in my mind, I'm like, oh, I forgot about that. We were going to, but forgot to actually plan a day to go. Yep. So we were like, they gave us a list of days they were going to be there. And one of the days was a Sunday. I'm like, oh, OK, we'll go on that Sunday. So we made a plan, came down on the Sunday, and we started in Colombia. We also purposely try to get drinks first so that we could eat food with the explorers later. So the plan was to try food together.
And then they wanted to sleep in. So they told us to start eating food. At that point, we were already near India. So in the beginning, they hadn't responded yet. So we're like, we might as well just try some of the drinks that are on our list. So the first one we tried was at Columbia. And you got the, you're going to say that. Agua Panela. Sure. You think it tastes like sweet tea? Yes. Well, what do you mean? I thought you thought it too. It's true. I did.
And then when we first recorded this yesterday, because we were tired. We thought it would be super smart to record the night of right after our trip. And then this morning, I was thinking about it. We sound dead. We should probably re-record that. Probably. But in that podcast or episode, deleted footage, whatever. I'm not posting anything of us sounding dead and tired. We learned that in the drink, it was, I wrote Pamela. That can't be right. I think it's Panela. Panela.
I think it auto corrected. But Panela sugar. Cause we were like, it's sugar water. Why did it look like sweet tea? Yeah. So we looked up the sugar and it's like a brown. It's like a cane sugar. A brown cane sugar. But like brown, not brown sugar, but like whatever. It's a brown dirt sugar. It makes the water brown. You're good? No. Let's just move on. But it was very good. Yes. It tastes like sweet tea. I love sweet tea.
Good. Now my question is, is it just the sugar in the water or did they add lemon to it? Because they said garnished with a lemon. I didn't get a lemon. I didn't taste any lemon either. So I doubt it. So my question is, can we go get this sugar, just mix it in some water and have the same drink at home? Probably. John will let us know. He knows all things food. Well, that was my drink. Then we went to the French quarter sips where I got the Pimms cup. You think it tasted bland?
I think it tasted like what it was supposed to. Okay, great. So whatever it was supposed to taste like was bland. It had that, can you look up the menu real quick? I can't remember what's in it. No, there was one ingredient that overpowered everything else. Where was this? French quarter sips already. It's pulling up right now. Pimms number or Pimms. No, what's the mix in? Ginger ale? Yeah. Ginger ale is the overpowering flavor that was in that. And ginger ale doesn't have much flavor.
It's like a Sprite. Kind of. I only drink it when I'm sick. I mean, it just tastes like ginger ale. Oh, yeah. So. And it had some fruit. It was supposed to have the orange, strawberry, cucumber, and something else. And I said no cucumber and no some other thing. Are you looking it up? Yeah, I was looking at the wrong one momentarily there. Fresh cut orange, strawberry, lemon, and cucumbers. So I think I said no, I said no lemon and no cucumber. Why no lemon? Because I just didn't want a lemon.
Okay. Well, I ate the strawberries. Good strawberries. I mean, unless it was like muddled in, I didn't really care, which it's not. The next drink that we got was all the way over at India. Yes. Because after we got the French Quarter one, we were like, let's just walk around and try and find all the booths. Yeah, because it's the only bad thing about the map, unless there is a map that we're just too dumb to not figure it out, there's no map that has all of it on one. There is a map.
I know because we looked at it before. But it's like, it's a screenshotted map. It's not an interactive, like zoom in, zoom out type of map. It's not on the app. No. Which is what we were using. It's online. Yeah. So we had to like pick one location, like, okay, where's this one location? And then we just, we're like, let's just walk around and see if we can find them. Pretty much. Next we went to India. We got the Jaljira soda.
So every time I'm scrolling through Facebook and I see the reels and whatnot, for some reason I get the reels from, I think it's India that it happens in, where it's like this lady and she has like all these glasses and then they like chuck ice in and then they break all the ice and then they cut the packets and put seasoning in all of it. And then they like quickly pop off the sprite mix and make the drink. And it's, it's not this drink, but it's similar.
And it was interesting to watch the TM member basically do the same thing that I see on the reels. The reels. Cause she, you know. The only bad thing is that the person making the drink was also the one taking the orders. Taking the orders. So the line started forming behind us. I was like, oh. Yeah. And then the way it works is she grabs your cup, she puts some ice in it.
She cuts the packet and dumps the seasoning in, takes a bottle of sprite, dumps the sprite in and then she takes us, I think it was like a mixing spoon and just like stabs the ice mixing all the seasoning in. Yeah. I didn't see what she was doing. All I knew was it was taking a while. I was like, oh boy. Yeah. She was making our drink because that drink might've, not might've, should have been premixed. I don't know if premixing it makes it bad though. Oh wait.
It might, might lose its fizziness. Okay. Nevermind. Don't make it premixed. Anyway, how it tasted. Kind of tastes like Mountain Dew. To you. To me. To me it tasted like a watermelon flavored sprite. I mean, I didn't, I didn't really like it because like every time I drink it, it's just like, I feel like I'm drinking seasoning. It wasn't bad. It was interesting. It's like, I wouldn't take a sip and all I see are these all like the black specks. I'm like, hmm, that's pepper. When it's not.
I guess. Like I said, to me it looked more watermelon-y. So it was like green with like watermelon seeds. I guess. It's, like I said, not bad. I would drink it again. I wouldn't go out of my way to drink it when I wouldn't be opposed to it. We can go get the seasoning. Huh? We can go get the seasoning. Make it at home. That requires work to make it. It's not that much work. Then we got our first food item. And what did we get? We went to China.
Yes. We decided to pick the worst thing to eat first. Apparently the spicy sh- you say it. I found your Jaljira mix on Amazon. Pay attention. Spicy, Saskatchewan chicken bites. I thought they were pretty dry. So did I. Especially since some, we did have some fried air. We did. The rice was also dry. That chicken fried in air. The rice was not good at all. No. It was a nice palate cleanser to try and get the spiciness out, but it would have been nice if it was, you know, fresh rice.
It threw me off with how- Oh my god. Don't do that. That scared me. It threw me off with how spicy it was. Cause a lot of times when we eat food at like amusement parks and it's like spicy, I'm like, ah, so it's flavorful. I don't ever consider it spicy. But I took one of the- the other small, so I like popped one of the chicken bites in my mouth. I was like, ah, this is gonna burn. And I had four of them. Congrats. You ate more than I thought you would. I agree.
I didn't even finish it cause it was starting to get like, ah, and we only had the, the Jaljira soda to help with it. But at this point we were sitting down in our nice little cubby hole that we were not going to tell you where it is cause we want to hide that secret for the rest of our lives. Just kidding. It is- Even though someone already took it while we were there and then we had to move tables. Whatever. The one table we like sitting at is, what's that one picture place called?
Amazing pictures. Amazing photos or whatever. There's- now what's the restaurant that's right there? Lombards? I think it's Lombards. I don't know. There's a restaurant across the way from Amazing Photos and then there's all these like metal tables out front underneath like an overhang. And then there's two freestyle machines in there. We sit at the very back left corner if you're looking at the freestyle machines. Right next to the caricatures. Yeah, right next to the characters.
Caric- people photos. People drawings. Same thing. And we sit there because one, it's nice and tucked away. Two, it's you stand up and the freestyle machine is right there. And three- It's a hit or miss though cause it can get like wet back there. Yeah. Three, it's as protected from rain as you can get. Right there at least. Yeah. Moving on. Drank a lot of water after the soda to help. But yeah, I would not recommend the chicken bites to anyone- Who doesn't like spicy food.
Well, I'm not even going to say that. Even if you do like spicy food, it was- For the price, it was a good portion size, but if they stay dry and they don't improve them- I mean, it's not bad if you like Takis. I guess. Think of it like eating chicken Takis-ish. Cause Takis aren't- Takis are dry. They are, I guess. Anyways, moving on. So we started walking around back towards Men in Black. Cause we're still looking for places. We walked onto the bridge expecting there to be a food booth there.
There was not. No. Walked past Simpsons, walked past the DeLorean, walked past E.T. Well, at this point we had pulled out the map to be like, what's nearest? Where's the next place? And it's all the way across the street from the crepe stand. That's what I was trying to think of. So if you know where the crepe stand is, the next booth is Mexico. And it's right where you think it would be. In the building that says Mexico. The big building that's labeled Mexico.
Yes. So here we got the- this is our first, second food item. We got the quesaburria and the churros. The second and third. Sure. I thought they were really good. The ques- okay, quesaburria. If you're a tourist and you're listening to us planning your trip and you're thinking, I'll get a Mardi Gras food item for lunch instead of going to a restaurant. Quesaburria is good, but it's not going to fill you up even in the slightest. No. It is a taco shell.
One of the small little flour tortilla taco shells. That's about like the size of your hand. The size of your hand. I got a big hand. I think it's smaller than my hand. Probably. They fill half of it up with meat, fold it in half, grill it. They put like cheese and stuff in it, grill it, do whatever they do to it. And then they cut it in half and serve you those two little portions. Was a small cup of the broth or something? Burea broth. Yeah. For 10 ish dollars. We never looked up the price.
I mean we did when we did the episode and then we never looked it up again. Sure. Is it good? Yes. I love it. John recommended where to go to get the same food item that's a lot bigger, a little bit more expensive, but also better. And I completely forgot where he said and I guarantee you he's going to message us on Twitter telling us exactly where to go. All I know is not Ante-Hitos. Watch it be Ante-Hitos.
No it wasn't because I remember it threw me off that it wasn't Ante-Hitos because that's what I was expecting. Anyways, John's probably going to message us one day soon. Telling us exactly where to go. Churros loops on the other hand. They're churros. I don't know what else to say. Made me realize that I probably never actually had a churro. Which is sad. I think it's because every other time I went somewhere and people were like, Oh, get churros. I was like, well, that's like the staple food.
Everyone always gets churros. I'm going to be interesting, get something different. And I guess I just never happened to get a churro. So these were churros. They weren't that warm. Chocolate sauce was good. The other brown sauce that I think might be a caramel sauce. The dulce de leche. Nope. Look it up. Dulce de leche. Yeah. I think. We did get made fun of that day for our pronunciation. Yes. But oh well. Like I said, I will just keep stumbling through it with pride. It was, it was good.
I like the brown sauce. I wouldn't get it again. Or dip. You get four little churro loops. We dunked ours in the sauce too. And we still have what? More than half of each cup left at the end. You do get a lot of sauce. Next we went to Coca Cola Market Square where you got the frozen Irish coffee. It wasn't bad, but it was very strong. I was like, ah, okay. Great. Drank some. And then we were walking to whatever place we went to next. And I was trying to slowly drink it.
You drank half and you're like, I'm done. Yeah. Although you're like trying to drink more or no for some. No I said just be done. I had to rush it for some reason. I don't, maybe just because you didn't want me holding the cup anymore or something. But you're like, okay, try to drink it and then just throw it away. I was like, oh, I got to chug this drink now. Not fun to chug. It hurts your throat. Yeah. But yeah, didn't finish it, but it was interesting. Probably not going to get it again.
I'll probably just stick to a regular frozen coffee. Smart. Then we went back to India because we're going to save the closer boosts for when the Explorers got there. At India, we got the butter chicken. You really liked it. I really, really liked it because I'm not a big chicken person. I get chicken, I'm like, oh, okay, fine. Because it's normally dry. Just in all dishes, chicken just tends to be drier. This was super juicy chicken and I absolutely loved it. The bread it came on, I don't care.
So the thing is you're supposed to take that bread and eat it all together. Oh. That's why I was trying to rip a piece of bread with the chicken. I'm just dumb then. I probably would have maybe. I don't know. I think it's just because the way they plated it made me think, oh, you just kind of whatever. No. Anyways, we also got the currywurst and pomace. Poms, poms, ponies, ponies. Very good. P-O-M-M-E-S. Poms. Currywurst and fries.
If you don't know what currywurst is, it is sausage in a spicy, no, it's a broth, sausage. Same thing. In a spicy sauce with french fries. Theme park spicy. Not the chicken bite spicy. And french fries with a heaping glob of mayonnaise. Yes. Don't know how I feel about the heaping glob of mayonnaise. I love mayo. I was fine with it. Yes, you were. I really liked it. It was good. It was the same. It tasted almost the same from last year because they had almost the same thing.
I wish there was more currywurst, less fries, but that's okay. Yes. There was a lot of fries. That's not the only thing we got from Germany. Oh, and then I also got the apple strudel. There you go. Meh. I didn't care about it. It was not that good. Speaking of apple strudel, I saw a photo or a video from one blogger and I can't remember who it was. And I think it was from the media night because they posted in their video a photo of the apple strudel and it looked nothing like what I had.
Oh. Theirs looked like a square pop tart type thing, but a little thicker with like a cherry sauce on top. It was like a triangle. Mine was, it wasn't a triangle. I saw what she took it from. It was a big log. It was sliced into portions and all she did was scoop out the next portion and plop it on. Oh. So a section of a log, which is kind of what it is supposed to look like. Whenever I went to a German restaurant, that's what it looked like when they served it to me.
Okay. And then in a melted puddle of ice cream. And then they had a melted puddle of ice cream, which was, I don't think it was ice cream. I think it was some type of sweet cream. To me it tasted like a giant puddle of vanilla ice cream. Okay, apple soup was supposed to be served warm with cold ice cream, cold ice cream, but this was just a puddle of cream. So it confused me when I saw this lady post a photo of that and I'm like, that's not what they're serving. Oh well.
Cause I would have rather had what she had cause it looked a lot better. And we went back to the main area food. Puerto Rico. You got the pinchos de lechon and then I got the cheese dog. What did you think of your steak of meat? Cause it was on a skewer. Yes. It was actually really good. I was kind of disappointed that I didn't get to finish it cause it was just unfortunate timing cause we ordered our food and we were starting to eat it when the Explorer showed up just kind of on us.
But I was like, ah, this is super messy. And if I actually enjoy this the way I want to, I'm going to look so bad. Cause there's almost no skewer part. Cause that's the bad thing about that food. You have to like rip it off with either a fork, which I didn't have or your fingers or your mouth. And I was just like, this is so messy, but it was really good. I really liked it, but yeah. I had a cheese dog. It was an empanada shell wrapped hot dog, hot dog.
And then there was some cheese in it with the cheese dipping sauce. It was good. I mean, I honestly looked at it like a kid's meal. It was a kid's meal. Yeah. I was like, ah, I like how they also didn't even give it like a fancy name or anything. It was a cheese dog. Oh, and then you also got the milk. The punch. The punch, the grape juice and condensed milk. I think I deserve a big, I told you so. I had higher hopes for cause I looked at the drink.
I was like, well, it looks weird, but it's fine. I mean, so did the gelgera soda. Who takes grape juice and milk? And it was like, I want to put them together. It was too sweet. It just tasted off. Like not too sweet, but yes, too sweet. Cause I've had super sweet food, but a drink shouldn't be that sweet. That makes sense. It just was like, uh, this is going to make me not feel good if I drink too much of it. So yeah, I may have just poured that out later. I tried to drink it.
I told you not to get it. You didn't listen. Do not be afraid to try new things. And that's what I did. Anyways, explorers came, met up with them. We, they asked us where we wanted to go and we said Canada. Cause I was next on your list. And it was nearby. Yep. Where we got the fake poutine. The margarita poutine. Sure. You sounded so excited for this in the last episode. I was because I'll make my first ever poutine experience. HHN 31, uh, where they had the bloody campground poutine.
Amazing 10 out of 10. Great. Next year they had the UAP poutine at Mel's driving. Great 10 out of 10. Loved it. Okay. That crispy chicken and that whatever else it was good. Okay. I loved it. I wish they kept it. They should have. It should be a year round item at Mel's. It would spice up their menu and make it just 10 times better because all that menu is burgers and chicken tenders. I don't think it would quite work with the theming of Mel's dining though. I don't care. Why?
Why wouldn't it work? I don't know. It's like burgers and fries and poutine. Call it something else then. Also speaking of like poutine, all the poutines you had and all that. This was my first poutine. And that's sad. You need more poutine in your life. And I was disappointed. Yes. It was, I'm going to say it was just bad. It was lacking. Here's what it was. It was french fries. Some mystery sauce. White sauce. Some mystery white sauce. Some cheese.
Some cubes of, I thought were tofu, but it turned out to be cheese. And skins of tomato. And skins of the tomato. I really want to know where the rest of that tomato went. Yeah, it was. It was not good. It needed meat. It felt like it, yeah, it needed meat. It was like, where's the main dish of this thing, kind of. It didn't even feel like a vegetarian dish. I feel like in a vegetarian dish, they would still have the main thing with these fries.
It needs that main character energy or whatever, main food. But I'm just, shush, I've been watching too much TV and whatever. Yes you have. I'm just, it was lacking. I don't see my frantic arm waving. Oh, and I should say the explorers did pay for our food from moving forward, which we are very thankful for. They were very nice. Yes, and I was very moved and I nearly cried. Yes you did. And I was very happy, because that was super nice. Yes, the cat is asking to be let in.
Make up your own mind, cat. We should just saw a hole in this door and just install a little cat door. Yeah, but then Jack would stick his head in it and get stuck. I'm probably just trying to crawl through. Moving on. We're technically not moving on, we're still staying in place. Oh, and then you had a scary experience while we were eating this fake poutine? Well technically, yes, but not from my point of view. That is correct.
So we decided to sit down by like where the Blues Brothers show plays. Kobe, Holly, and Nick all sat on the sidewalk, like the curb of the sidewalk, while I just sat on the road, very close to the sidewalk. But just to kind of make more of an L shape so we're more facing each other. Yeah. So I was facing everyone else. And then I see team members in the show just like clearing the road and making people go to the sides. I just assumed.
And there was like, there was people on the side of the road too, still in the road, but you know. They're just keeping people out of the middle of the road. Yeah. We have never actually seen the full show. So I was just like, okay, whatever. I guess they're just making room for the singers who are over there. I should say, I know the, the Blues Brothers, I know they drive up. We've seen them, you know, drive around the park before and they're always like going slower than five miles an hour.
Like parade float. Yeah. And then all I hear is the siren from their cop car blaring. And then I just hear tires squealing and then they drift around the corner, swerving in the middle of the road and then slam on the brakes as they get to where they're supposed to be nearly hitting you. Like I said, I didn't see any of this. I just see you guys kind of freak out for, especially Holly and you guys just freak out. I'm like, I just turned around and I'm like, Oh, there's a car.
I didn't even realize it was close to me. I was just like, okay. I guess they weren't going to hit you really fast. They were going fast. And then I, it took me a moment and I was like, I'm on the road. Oh, okay. Got it. Okay. Now it's kind of spooky. Yes. Anyways, then we went to the Brown Derby hat store where we got a jacket that I'm currently wearing. You were currently wearing, uh, we thought it was getting jackets. Yes. It was a two XL cause that's what the hanger said, bought it left.
I went to go put it on cause I was getting a little chilly. Looked at the tag and it said three XL. And I'm like, nevermind. Cause I didn't feel like wearing a dress. I like oversized hoodies and stuff. So it works for me. Yes. But yeah, I ended up buying a different jacket later. I now regret. Oh, well maybe it'll get better when we wash it. It's very itchy on the inside. I should have checked that before I bought it. Now we went to the tribute store cause that was further down the road.
I think. Right. Went to the tribute store. We thought it was really good. That's my second favorite tribute store that we've been to. It was very well themed. My first was Jurassic Park. Yes. I don't think anything's going to really beat the, those dinos. I don't think so. But man, I just love the whole Bayou thing. Uh, wasn't too much of a fan of the Mardi Gras only merch. It's a Mardi Gras tribute store. I'm, guess I'm just used to like a variety of stuff.
I don't like Mardi Gras things in this Mardi Gras tribute store. I guess I was disappointed cause I was like, oh, I'm not going to be buying any of this. It's like you go into a hat store. I don't like hats. Why are you only selling hats? It was really cool though. Cause they had like big trees and like the shirts are inside the tree and. Yes. I really, really liked it. And they had like a big bog looking monster. It was a cryptid museum, I think. Yes. It was like the theme of the store.
It was really cool. Then we went to Columbia and tried the Columbia burger because everybody keeps raving about it. It was okay. I got a similar burger at Red Robin a couple of weeks ago. The Bonsai burger. I don't see why people are craving this burger. It's like, it's okay. It's a good burger. It's a burger. Yeah. We're not saying it was a bad burger. Like it was a good burger. It's just, it wasn't like, woo. I wouldn't go out of my way to go get this burger.
It wasn't like a special food kind of thing. No, it's a burger. It had some special sauce. It had potato sticks and that's about it. It had, instead it had pineapple. I didn't see any pineapple. I could, it was like a slaw, I think. I think it was like mixed in the slaw. Maybe. Cause I could taste it. Like it was good. It was a good burger. It was just not to the, okay. I guess we're only making it sound bad because we're just kind of bashing it. It was a good burger.
It just didn't meet the standard that we were expecting. Yeah. Anyways, then we hung out for a bit, talked for a while. When I met him back with, uh, Coby and Holly, Coby got the most points per usual. You got the least. By majorly. So that was bad English. Yes it was. I, yeah, I lost. Very bad. So after that, I'm like, oh, what did everybody get? And then Coby was like, oh, I got five something. And then Holly was like, oh, I got four something. I think I also got four something.
Then I was like. And then I got 130. 130. To be fair, I did cheat to get my score. So I cheated too. That's the thing. I think your gun was just broken. Yeah. Cause I was shooting at our exhaust port thing only because our cart broke down. Yes. Cause like we said, we don't spin when we have other people in the cart. Speak to yourself. Cause sometimes I do it. What? Know the people you're with. Kind of thing. But cause we had like two, I think two single riders in our cart too. Oh yeah, we did.
But yeah, I was shooting at the exhaust port and I wasn't hitting it, but I also did hit it like once. And I was like, I'm not moving my blasters. So you got to like, eat it hard to hit. You got to like finagle it and find the sweet spot. But at one point I was also hitting a blank wall and I somehow scored a point. So that happens. Cause I was just holding the trigger down the entire time and I wasn't really aiming at anything. And it was just like, you do do it. And I was like, oh, um, okay.
Woo. I mean, we still got the suit ending and the galactic defenders or something, but anyways. Then we went over to the attended area by the animal show where Slaughter Cinema food booth was. That's where it is. And you can clear all of the food making utensils out of there and put seats back. And if you're not basing it off of Halloween Horror Nights, it's right next to the big animal signs with the mist sprayers. Sure. Sat there for a while, talked. Avoiding rain. Avoiding rain.
Then John arrived. We haven't mentioned him once. Yeah, we didn't. No, we haven't. No, we didn't. No, we haven't. Yeah, we didn't. We mentioned him, but we didn't mention he was there until just now. Oh yes. John arrived. But I got to hang out with John. Yes. He criticized my McDonald's pasta eating, which is deserved. Fair. Yeah. One day we'll all go get McDonald's pasta together and then I will show you the light. Yay. It'll be worth it. Then we went to Mexico again.
We sat out because we already ate there. We skipped the duck, the cute friendly little duck food at the, was it the France booth? The crepe stand? Yeah. It was like a duck crepe. Yeah. We skipped the duck crepe because I'm not a fan of duck. We also skipped the duck dumpling at China, but I was interested in it, but then I saw the size of that thing and I was like, ah, never mind. It was pretty small. Yeah. Did anyone get the burrito tacos? Not tacos. I think so. I'm missing out.
They got the, I wrote it down. Chiquilas Verde nachos. Basically nachos. Yeah. Which I think they had it last year and if it is the same dish, which it looks like to be, I would have been meh. They were good last year, but nothing to rave about. They enjoyed it. Uh, Sanat La Bamba because me and Kobe were looking for a jacket. Because it, like we said, it was starting to rain and it was just, it was cloudy and very windy.
It kind of got a little chilly to the point where we're running like t-shirts and shorts. It's like, yeah, it gets kind of chilly. So we fortunately already had one jacket, but Nick took it from me and then I got called. So I had to go buy you a jacket. Technically you bought yourself a jacket because this one was mine. Yes. You got an ET hoodie. You guys went like on a whole adventure for these. So first we went to Simpsons because at the time that was the closest shop.
I thought you went to SpongeBob for a moment. Oh wait no no. Because of the direction you went. Uh, we went to SpongeBob first. Now that you say that. Kobe got in there way before I did because I was catching up to him. He said there was nothing in there so we ran over to Simpsons. Surprisingly he didn't get anything in there. And then he dropped off his drink with Holly at La Bamba. And then I'm like, oh, let's go try Five and Dime. Went into Five and Dime, I found the ET jacket.
He said he couldn't find anything. So he was going to go over to the universe store. Which threw us off because I saw you coming back and we're like, where's Kobe? Yeah. It's like, did he run away? We kept making jokes that he went all the way over to islands. It took him a while to get back. He came back with my hoodie, the Jurassic Park one. Which continued the joke. Because we're like, ah, so you went all over, you went to like the Jurassic Outfitters. Got it.
Yep. Then we went to go get more food. Decided not to get beignets because they're beignets. Okay. They're just beignets. I don't think you need to retry them. You didn't really like them last year and I didn't feel like eating a whole bag of beignets by myself again. Then we tried Bite to the Bayou where I got the Baked Cajun Mac and Cheese. And you got the Chicken and Sausage Gumbo. I thought the Mac and Cheese was really good.
To me it just tasted like just some regular Mac and Cheese with some extra ingredients thrown in. Well, I liked it. I think it needed a little more Cajun. Either that or the bites I got just weren't very flavorful. I only had like two bites. Speak for yourself. Your gumbo was too spicy. I loved my gumbo. It was gumbo and rice. I don't know if gumbo's always served with rice. I don't have it often enough. It is. Pretty sure. But it was amazing comfort food to me. It was so good. I was so happy.
Very comforted. Which I kinda got teased for by John. Yes. I was like almost done. He was like, are you comforted by your food? I was like, mmhmm. But, cause it is fair. You don't go to a theme park to get comfort food. But I really liked it. Yes you do. Not usually. Yes. Whatever. I guess we have different versions of comfort food then. But yeah. It was really good. Then. Oh and then. We only had one more thing on our list. John was just like, oh do you have any other place to go to?
And we're like, oh Italy. We need to try the. Well technically this was even before we went to Bites of the Bayou. He was like, oh what do you have left on your list? Oh right. We're like, oh there's Italy. And Bites of the Bayou. We didn't even say Bites of the Bayou yet. We were like, Italy cause I'm scrolling through the list. And he's like, let me stop it right there. Let me stop you. He's like, do you like Louie's meatballs? I'm like, they're okay.
He's like, do you like Louie's pizza sauce? And I'm like, it's okay. He's like, that's what that is. He's like, I wouldn't recommend it. And I'm like, noted. Let's go anyway. Well, we were like that after getting the bite. No, and then I said, oh, we also have Bites of the Bayou. He's like, that's a better idea. He said the mac and cheese was really good. So we got the mac and cheese.
And then Holly's just like, well, and then after we ate the mac and cheese, Holly's like, oh, we got one more thing to do. We got to go to Italy. And then that's when John told us it's inside of Louie's. Like there's no sign. There was a sign for it apparently when he first went. For media preview, I think. We were talking about how we didn't see it. Yeah. And then I said, oh, I didn't see a sign. And then Holly's like, well, we need to go. So we went, didn't see a sign outside.
He's like, yeah, it was right here. And then he said, there's even one over there. And I'm like, well, there's not there now. Nope. The only sign is if you go into Louie's and it's up on the menu screen. So we go into Louie's and the line is like, I guarantee at least an hour long. And I'm like, I'm not doing that. In total, right? Like in order to order and then get your food would probably have taken an hour. I'm guessing. I'm just basing it off your whole cheese fry.
Yeah. I'm basing it off the pizza fry because that was about the same size of line. And I waited an hour for those stupid pizza fries on UAP night, which was not worth it. So we're like, yeah, we're not doing that. At least we tried. Left. And then we just kind of stood, talked for a little bit for like 15 more minutes and then we're like, well, we got to go. Yeah. It was nearing 630.
Cause that's when we had to leave to get home by eight, which was a mistake because it ended up being eight 30 when we got home. Eight. Same thing. At least we were accounting for that. I wasn't. Yeah. We hit some really bad traffic on the way home. I was hoping there was going to be a miracle and the time that Apple maps said would be the time that I actually got home and it was not the case. Well, I mean, I got his home five minutes faster. So it was eight 25 and got a home at eight 20.
So whoo. Good for you. Yeah. That was our day at Universal with the Mardi Gras food, the explorers and John. Great. Yep. We're at an hour and three minutes. We extended it by 20 minutes. 23 actually. 24 now, but you guys don't get dead completely messy. I mean we could just post this raw and just say, there you go. Just fix the audio. Last night it was like we went through all the food and what we thought of it. Still on like the alphabetical order. Cause that's how we had it in the notes.
And then we try to go into the timeline of what we did that day. And it just kept... No, we didn't. You were going to, and then I said, oh, it's going to be too difficult. And we just gave up after the first try. Yeah. So then this morning I wrote a full out timeline of what we did and much better. So good job us. You're welcome. We've got a broken freezer. Scary. Yes, we do. We should probably just get a new fridge because that one's going out. There's like a metal bar or something that bent.
So every time you open the door, it goes like, can, can, can, can, can. Yep. And now the refrigerator side is also starting to do it. Really? Yes. Oh, I haven't noticed that. It's not as bad, but it's happening. Anyways. You guys don't want to hear about our fridge troubles. We're not distractible. No, we're not. There will be no broken bushes, broken water pipes. If you don't know what we're talking about, go watch Bob's fridge part one. There is no part one. It's no part.
It's just Bob's fridge. It's called, it's near the bottom. One of their first episodes. I highly recommend listening to that episode. It is really good. Anyway. We just gave a millions of listeners podcast a plug. You're welcome, Mark. You'll never hear this. Yes, we're giving the plug. You're welcome distractible. We're totally sending more viewers. Who knows? We have one viewer. You never know. It's possible. They don't need our help. If somehow this gets back to Mark, please DM us.
We want to collab. Imagine we get a Riverside invite from them. We could be their second guests. No. That'd be fun. That'd be a crossover of the century. I would die. One of the biggest podcasts. Either of embarrassment or happiness. I'm not entirely sure. One of the smaller podcasts. Okay, we end. Goodbye. I don't want to say goodbye yet. What else can I talk about? We need new wifi. You did this last night. I did. And I'm doing it again. We need new wifi. We do need new wifi.
And then TV's like gone on and off. I think I'm going to look into that tonight. Get a new wifi package. Get some of that five gigabyte speed internet. Cost a couple hundred bucks a month. Fancy wifi. Do you have any other small talk? You know how sleep can just kind of randomly hit you out of nowhere? Let me guess you're tired now. Yeah, I just. I just splashed my tea on you. Out of nowhere I was just like, I can sleep now. I could throw my tea at you. I'll catch and drink it. Gimme gimme.
I could chuck my tea at you. Nevermind. You're gonna get the couch all wet. Anyways, good night. Good night. Goodbye. Goodbye. Oh yeah, just goodbye. Yeah, well it's good night for us. Good morning for you. If you listen to this in the morning. Alright, I'm done. It's just a good grandma chicken sandwich. Ugh. Bye bye! Bye bye! Bye bye! Go, go! Go, go! Go, go, go! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Go! Ooh! Oh! Okay. Again. Again.