Disney World Serves 900 Kilos of Fried Rooster a Evening at This Timeless 50-12 months-Outdated Dinner Present

For 50 years, Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort has welcomed hungry theme park goers into Pioneer Corridor for some good old style enjoyable and a hearty dinner. 

The dinner present is among the longest-running within the nation, debuting in 1974, first as a seasonal summer time present, then on September 5, it turned a everlasting present on the Walt Disney World Resort. Since its inception, greater than 12 million company have seen over 41,000 performances of Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue.

“We’re so pleased with the unimaginable legacy of the Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue, and the key to the present’s success over the past half-century has actually been the folks. Our solid members, previous and current, have created numerous reminiscences for thousands and thousands of company, which is why the present continues to endure from one era to the subsequent,” says Maribeth Bisienere, senior vice chairman of operations at Walt Disney World Resort.

The tantalizing consolation meals menu

After the dinner bell rings and also you’re seated at your desk, the true magic of Hoop-Dee-Doo Revue begins. 

“I’ve been visiting Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue repeatedly for the reason that ’90s. To me, it’s the essence of Disney magic — a heavy dose of nostalgia and fantasy paired with enthralling leisure and legit scrumptious meals,” says journey and theme park journalist, Carly Caramanna.

The stage is about and your server brings over heat cornbread, creamy coleslaw, and a home salad. After water is poured, adults can bask in beer, sangria, or mushy drinks and children can have their choose of soda or juice — all of that are included in the price of the dinner present. Within the background, a piano participant and banjo participant add to the ambiance of Pioneer Corridor with reside music. Then the solid of the present makes their method in and it’s time for some actual enjoyable. 

Between zany skits and sing-a-longs, your server brings over the subsequent spherical of meals, which options “all-you-care-to-enjoy” fried rooster and BBQ pork ribs — in addition to baked beans and macaroni and cheese. In fact, no good meal is full with out dessert, and at Pioneer Corridor, it’s basic strawberry shortcake piled excessive with macerated strawberries and whipped cream. 

Pioneer Corridor serves how a lot rooster?

With three exhibits each Wednesday by Sunday, the Pioneer Corridor cooks are all the time exhausting at work again within the kitchen. Each evening the kitchen dishes out over 900 kilos of completely golden fried rooster and greater than 400 kilos of succulent pork ribs. 

Then the edges add as much as one other unimaginable quantity with greater than 400 kilos of potatoes, 120 kilos of corn, and 30 gallons of baked beans served each evening. And people iconic strawberry shortcakes use over 15 gallons of strawberries and 12 gallons of whipped cream.

A timeless down-home efficiency

Whereas there have been some fashionable variations and technological upgrades, the precise present has modified little or no for the reason that Seventies. Even higher is that the actors who grace the stage every carry their very own aptitude to the characters they’re portraying. 

“Disney is a spot that’s in fixed change and whereas the present has had some fashionable updates, it feels timeless. And it’s further particular that lots of the solid and servers have been there for years, some even many years,” says Caramanna. 

For instance, after I went to Hoop (as Disney followers name it) in August, the character Two Bits included the favored “Sizzling To Go” dance that took over TikTok this summer time into considered one of his routines. Tweens, teenagers, and in-the-know adults within the viewers acquired a giant snort out of it. Even cooler was the evening I skilled Hoop-Dee-Doo: One particular solid member, Gloria, was celebrating working at Pioneer Corridor as a server for 43 years and acquired a particular shout-out from the solid in the course of the present.

And don’t suppose it’s simply the servers and performers that get in on the enjoyable. At Pioneer Corridor, unsuspecting viewers members could develop into a part of the present. The actors usually come into the viewers to bop and sing, selecting out diners to affix within the enjoyable. We don’t wish to spoil any surprises, however you’ll wish to guide a seat on the underside ground of Pioneer Corridor for the very best likelihood of getting picked to be within the present. 

A night at Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue is a sought-after eating reservation that takes company away from the close by Magic Kingdom right into a time usually forgotten by fashionable parkgoers. 

However Pioneer Corridor has its personal form of magic, and it’s referred to as fried rooster.