Is it with a heavy heart that I must remind you all that I will not be attending this year’s Food & Wine Festival in Epcot. There will be no Wine & Dine Half Marathon for me. Yes, it was a great three years, pouring rain and curtailed courses and all. But I chose to run the Dark Side Half last April instead, to expand my horizons and whatnot, and I stand by that decision.
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JUST KIDDING. I REGRET EVERYTHING.
How can I not when the first menus for this year’s festival were just released? There is SO MUCH GOOD STUFF this year. Of course. Naturally. I bet they did that on purpose.
I wasn’t going to hurt myself further by looking. But I had to look. And then I was like, well, I won’t be at the festival, but I can make a pretend wishlist, right? For fun and excitement?
So I did. Here it is:
Key:
+ means I ate it last year and liked it enough to add it to the list again (NOT THAT IT MATTERS).
– means it was on the list last year but I never got around to trying it.
| Booth | Item | Notes |
| Active Eats | Sweet Avocado Crema with Strawberries, Yellow Cake & Tortilla Streusel | Avocado dessert?! |
| Africa | Jam Jar Sweet Shiraz+ | |
| Almond Orchard | CHAMPAGNE!! | Why is the champagne in an almond booth? What happened to its dedicated booth? MYSTERIOUS. |
| Brazil | Pao de Queijo+ | Cheese bread, I can never quit you. |
| Brewer’s Collection | Decorated Gingerbread Heart | Is it covered in frosting??? |
| Brewer’s Collection | Schofferhofer Pomengranate Beer | If it’s half as good as their grapefruit beer… |
| Cheese Studio | Cheese Trio | Smoked salmon! A cheese tart! A macaroon! WHY AM I NOT GOING WHY WHYYYYY |
| China | Roasted Duck Bao Bun+ | Steamed buuuun |
| Chocolate Studio | Dark Chocolate Raspberry Torte+ | |
| Craft Beers | Scotch Egg | Because I don’t think the one I got in Harry Potter Land was legit. |
| Craft Beers | Cheeseburger & Cheddar Cheese Macaroni Handwich | ??? |
| Craft Beers | Triple Chocolate Milk Stout | Cause I dug last year’s milk stout. |
| Earth Eats | Kurt Russell makes wine! | AND THE SAILORS SAY BRANDY YOU’RE A FINE GIRL (SUCH A FIIIIINE GIRL) |
| Earth Eats | No, but actually – Black Raspberry Mead | |
| Farm Fresh | All the Ciders | |
| Flavors from Fire | Sweet Pancake with Spicy Chipotle Chicken Sausage | No seriously, why?????? 🙁 |
| Germany | Roast Bratwurst in a Pretzel Roll+ | THE PRETZEL ROLL IS BACK AND I’M MISSING IT UGH |
| Greece | Bougatsa Which Is Some Sorta Greek Strudel | |
| Hawaii | SPAM HASH! | Lovely Spam, wonderful Spam. |
| India | Warm Indian Bread with Dips | |
| India | Madras Red Curry | I looooooooove curry. |
| Ireland | Roasted Irish Sausage | |
| Ireland | Warm Irish Cheddar Cheese & Stout Dip with Brown Bread | |
| Ireland | Pumpkin Chair Tea & Caramel Shake | |
| Islands of the Caribbean | Quesito – Puffed Pastry with Cream Cheese- | I feel like they teased this last year and then didn’t deliver…? |
| Japan | Salmon BLT Sushi Roll | WHAT??? HOW AM I MISSING THIS |
| Mexico | Cajeta Mousse | Like… cheese mousse? |
| New Zealand | Seared Venison Loin- | |
| Scotland | Potato Pancake with Smoked Salmon+ | |
| Spain | Charcuterie in a Cone | |
| Spain | Sweet Olive Oil Cake | |
| Thailand | Red Hot Spicy Thai Curry Beef | WAAAAAA |
And now I’m thoroughly depressed.
Those who are going: please eat these things for me! Tell me how they are! Tweet me pictures! Don’t forget!!!!
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