From the Eyes & Ears of Walt Disney World, March 18, 1977:
Frozen Meat Sale!!!I don’t know exactly why this amuses me as much as it does. Perhaps it’s the boldly declarative title announcing, without apparent excitement, “FROZEN MEAT SALE.” Perhaps it’s the fact that the Gourmet Pantry somehow found themselves with an “abundance” of frozen meat – enough of a surplus, in fact, that they’re being forced to offer it to cast members at a deep discount. Wait a minute – why does the Gourmet Pantry have frozen meat in the first place?
Please remember, though – whatever you do, do not telephone the Gourmet Pantry asking them to hold meat for you. That’s just rude. Didn’t your mother teach you anything?
Gourmet Pantry would actually deliver fresh meats to the Villas. Can you imagine ordering a rib eye from the Gourmet Pantry and grilling it on the porch of your Treehouse Villa? How perversely wonderful is that? 😀
Well, it sounds pretty much like paradise to me! Oh, for a time machine and a bottle of A1…
Seriously, the image you paint pretty much represents the pure awesomeness of WDW in its glory years, and it didn’t involve a single park.
Since you enjoyed it so much, a visual:
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Apparently Word Press doesn’t do HTML….
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