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52 Episodes & Still Drinking: A Year of Disney Cocktail Adventures with a Lapu Lapu
Raise your pineapple cups and join us for our milestone 52nd episode celebration! We've come full circle by revisiting the Lapu Lapu from Tambu Lounge at Disney's Polynesian Resort - the very first drink we featured when our Disney cocktail adventure began one year ago.
With 52 Disney drinks under our belts, we're sharing our definitive rankings of the best and worst beverages across the parks and resorts. The Ottawa Apple from BaseLine Tap House earned unanimous praise as our top pick, while the Lapu Lapu, Cold Brew Martini, and surprisingly delicious Angry Bloody Rancor all made our favorite five list. Not every Disney concoction impressed us though - we didn't hold back our opinions on disappointments like the Mint Julep (which we both agreed was forgettable) and the Sunspot that made our faces pucker "like we were eating Lemon Heads."
The most fascinating revelations came from drinks that completely surprised us, like the PB&J Cocktail from TuneIn Lounge that sounded bizarre on paper but delivered unexpectedly delightful flavors. We also shared our bucket list beverages we're still eager to try - including the theatrical Uh-Oa! from Trader Sam's with its fire ritual and the intriguing La Cava Avocado featuring fresh avocado and hibiscus salt rim.
Our year of Disney drinking has taught us valuable lessons about our preferences too. Aaron gravitates toward sophisticated sipping cocktails where you can truly taste the quality spirits, while Christy discovered her love for Disney's creative martinis - noting they've yet to make a bad one. Whether you're planning your next Disney vacation or just looking for mixology inspiration, our anniversary episode offers the perfect blend of nostalgia, honest reviews, and tropical rum enjoyment.
Have a Disney drink you think we should feature? Send us your suggestions - we'll do the research and drink it for you! Cheers to many more years of Disney cocktail adventures!
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Hello and welcome to Cheers to Ears, and today is a very special episode, aaron. Very special, it's our how many-eth episode Fifty-second.
Speaker 2:Fifty-second. We have recorded a year's worth of episodes.
Speaker 1:And this is our fifty-second time sitting down drinking together yes, while having mics in our face.
Speaker 2:This is our fifty-second time sitting down drinking together With mics in our face.
Speaker 1:With mics in our face, yes, okay drinking together with mics in our face, with our mics in our face. Yes, okay, today we're going to revisit a classic from our first ever episode. Yeah, the lapu.
Speaker 2:I thought that was appropriate.
Speaker 1:It is very appropriate. Yeah, I haven't had a drink of it yet. You haven't, no, I. We didn't do our normal cheers out there oh, I'm sorry, we didn't, so I just so this is our ritual every time we make a drink out in my kitchen, we we say cheers, cheers and we have a sip. So I'm going to do that right now.
Speaker 2:So normally we would be clinking glasses, we're clinking pineapples.
Speaker 1:Yes, because we're revisiting the Lapu Lapu from Tambu Lounge.
Speaker 2:Tambu Lounge.
Speaker 1:Tambu Lounge at Disney's Polynesian Resort. Yes See, I don't mess up Tambu, I mess up Polynesian. Polynesian and the Lapu. Lapu has planetary original dark rum, or jit, which is an almond syrup, and tropical fruit juices served in a fresh pineapple topped with Gosling's 151 proof black seal rum $21, worth every cent, it is.
Speaker 2:And served in a pineapple. Served in a pineapple.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I mean come on, they get fancy stuff at the Tambu Lounge because the back scratcher another drink we had it comes with a back scratcher. I've never had. Let's look at other drinks on here. I've never had a pineapple mule. I don't know if you get to take a mule home or what.
Speaker 2:They bring you a whole mule, a whole mule you take home. Hello, sir, right, you get the burro.
Speaker 1:Right, I mean, come on, this is great. So, yeah, great drink. As always, we made it close, or we always make this one close, right? Do we make it exactly the same?
Speaker 2:Yes, the only difference was we used Captain Morgan Spice Rum because that's what we had, so good. Oh yeah, this one's tasty. Yes, it's smooth and the thing is, and it's going to be hard to let it sit, but it absorbs all those juices, extra pineapple juices Okay, I'll work on that Out of the pineapple, what's left, and then there's a puddle of pineapple juice down at the bottom. Anyway, yeah, thanks for reminding me.
Speaker 1:I'll take a break here. So, yeah, we'll visit our so far, our 52nd episode.
Speaker 2:we're doing something special today we're gonna talk about the drinks, the, the 52 drinks that we've had.
Speaker 1:Wow, yeah, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, and so we'll see how close. I'm very curious to see we haven't talked about what our top bottoms are at all. No, we'll see how close we came.
Speaker 2:We just decided what, what? We top five, bottom five, and then some individual categories, yes, but one of the things, all 50, well, 52 drinks, two of them not on the menu. We did the cantarito, which was for disney forward, right, you know, or latin land, what we would do with with disney forward. And then, after the apocalypse, we did a churro martini, which we completely made that one up, which was quite good.
Speaker 2:I know, yeah, I got to say, oh, that should. Well, we'll do that. I didn't do that one. But category of drinks. So we'll get to that at the end. I've got it in my mind oh, do you? Okay, we'll get to that at the end. I've got it in my mind oh, do you Okay? Of like a category, favorite category of drinks. Okay, of what we've tried, okay, yeah, we can do that, but we're going to start with top five.
Speaker 1:So top five, top five and I didn't put these in order Cause I don't think it's fair to the order. No, we've tried. I had a really hard time with both of these myself. I had a top two or three and then I like a lot of drinks that tie, yes, for four and five, but so I just chose the top five and I tried to add. I tried to add different flavors, I did too, and not just have all like fruity drinks or all martinis or all fashions right, yeah, so I tried to do that.
Speaker 1:Should we just start with the couple? We're good, I know two are going to be exactly the same, maybe three. I bet I could pick three on your list right off the bat probably ottawa apple.
Speaker 2:Ottawa apple best drink, best drink and that, I think, is the best drink period. If there was a number one, I think that's it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I saw a person reviewing drinks today, when I was trying to figure out what my bottom five drinks were, I revisited some things I looked at before and he said the Ottawa Apple just tasted like a regular apple. There was nothing special about it. Wholeheartedly disagree with him.
Speaker 2:No, it's a good one, yeah, it's a good one. So another one on top five. This one we're drinking today Mine too. Yes, lapu, lapu.
Speaker 1:It's a great drink. I've never had this at the polynesian, neither have I. I know strange strange to say because we've had the ottawa apple is a must-do.
Speaker 2:It's, it's right up there with a must-do ride, because if you go to the tambu lounge you have to go after. I don't think it opens to like three in the afternoon and I've never been over there at three o'clock, right on a like a resort hopping day Right, I was there one time and didn't get it because everyone had one around me and we already had it for our episode.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I want to try something I've never tasted at all. That's when I had the back scratcher. Back scratcher yes, Right.
Speaker 2:So next one that I had on here was the cold brew martini. It's not on my top five. It made top five. I really enjoyed that. One Good one yeah.
Speaker 1:Good one, I love it, love it, just didn't make my top five. My next one is the Swing.
Speaker 2:Shift. You know I saw that one and it didn't stick out in my mind.
Speaker 1:It's an old-fashioned drink made with like an orange slice and, man, I forgot exactly what the ingredients. I don't have the ingredients where the? I just I listened to the first few minutes of every episode and reminisced and then picked what I like the swing shift we both loved. Yeah, and it was a surprising twist on old fashion yes, and I remember I liked that one.
Speaker 2:There was another one that I really liked a drop in, if you dare, because I was was looking at the Magic Key Terrace, as I want to do to just randomly scroll through the app on occasion and I remember really liking that one, but I can't remember the drink itself and I had to remember the drink itself, I remember the episode itself, because that led to my Magic Key purchase.
Speaker 1:Yes, it did Okay.
Speaker 2:Thank you, christy. Another one was cold brew, martini.
Speaker 1:What's your next one? Then we have three, so far each.
Speaker 2:One auto apple lapu-lapu and cold brew martini and I have swing shift and swing shift. Okay, so what's your fourth, or number four? I actually did, which will. Last week's episode the dole whip cocktail oh for me yeah, it was. Am I gonna put the dole whip in or am I putting the frozen viking coffee?
Speaker 1:okay now, our frozen viking coffee was great, way better than the parks way better than the park, because because they make a big batch of it. Yes, if they would have made a handmade like we did, it would be the same as ours. Yeah, I really agree.
Speaker 2:I really think that and theirs was more slushy. It wasn't didn't taste like it had ice cream in it, right it a little more slushy consistency. I went with the dole whip cocktail. It's one I've had multiple times and I I think that's why I've made it just randomly on an evening with other people and I've had it again, whereas the I haven't done that with the viking coffee. So that's why I went with the dole whip cocktail and it very. I could imagine just sitting at lamplighter lounge si sipping on one of those, looking out over the water. Yeah good day.
Speaker 1:Imagine it now. So I'm going to agree with you that I almost put the Dole Whip in my top five. The Dole Whip cocktail. Yeah, it almost went in my top five. Instead I chose, ready for it, the frozen Viking coffee. That's my next one. It's good, I like it here. I like it okay in the parks. Yeah, I just wish they wouldn't make such a huge batch of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and have them sitting out.
Speaker 1:That's my only complaint Just sitting there on a tray. Sometimes you walk up If it's busy. Yeah, you walk up and there's a tray sitting by the register where they just hand you a cup.
Speaker 2:And to me it was like it's not frozen 1a, 1b it the both great traits right it's not, but frozen viking coffee, not frozen no, it wasn't kind of cold.
Speaker 1:Yeah, not even free, not not cold, cold it was like melted margarita consistency.
Speaker 2:yeah, okay, I kind of think we're gonna have the next one, the same too. I don't know Okay. Let's see I went completely left field with this one. Well, let's see if he did. Top five drinks Angry, bloody, rancor.
Speaker 1:I have the Angry, bloody Rancor.
Speaker 2:That's hilarious.
Speaker 1:Really See it's ready right there Angry, bloody Rancor.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, I really like that one. It's great. I had never had a Bloody Mary before, but that with the heat and the spice, because I had it in the park and then I had it, we made it. I'm like we've got to have this, and even with the spicy candied bacon in it that was a good drink. Yeah, yeah, that's funny, so we had one different yeah, five, that's it, and it was really a decision on like and we we were both contemplating no the one.
Speaker 2:Well, we had two different oh yeah, I had the swing shift and I had the cold brew martini. Okay, bottom five drinks, bottom five the mint julep.
Speaker 1:I should have put that I didn't think of. I forgot about the mint julep. It just totally have put that I didn't even think of them. I forgot about the mint julep. It just totally didn't cross my mind. It was that bad.
Speaker 2:It was that bad. Yeah, it was our only really bad drink, right.
Speaker 1:I have the other. It's in my top bottom. It's in my bottom five, for sure. I just didn't time with these.
Speaker 2:I didn't, because I had ones that really stuck out in my mind.
Speaker 1:Mint julep does. Maybe you'll come up with other ones. I don't remember for reasons.
Speaker 2:And they might have been drinkable, but I never really wanted to have one again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, some of these I just don't remember, because they weren't that great.
Speaker 2:So if you didn't have mint julep, what was one of yours? French rose, I actually have that one as well. That one, have that one as well. That one I'm actually curious to try in the park yes, at topolino's terrace because it was just so not great, it was okay, it looked like it was going to be really good and it was like man, that's okay, and I was really disappointed in that one. So that was actually on my list as well. A french rose, that? That's funny, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I'll go again I guess, go again, I guess. The Pineapple Mule, really, no, I don't love the mules. And it was just okay, it didn't stand out.
Speaker 2:I actually like that one Really. I mean not top five, but I so this was a little bit of a different mule because it was pineapple juice and it had bourbon and not vodka, right, so to me I actually kind of like that one. Hmm, yeah, it was not near my bottom five, Interesting. Good, good there we go, now we're getting somewhere, now we're disagreeing.
Speaker 1:We're not disagreeing where I'm mad at you. No.
Speaker 2:We're not agreeing Right, we'll put it that way. Okay, this one, I think, will be on yours. Okay, the Sunspot.
Speaker 1:Yes, Sunspot is on mine.
Speaker 2:Yes, definitely, and it was because it was too tart. Yes, it was very tart.
Speaker 1:Very this one. I just don't like yeah, I don't think I would order in the park. I think it would taste about the same. Probably. I think we did it justice. It was just like what puckering.
Speaker 2:That's not what you want in a drink.
Speaker 1:That's a candy. It was a lemon head, I think we said that too. Yeah, it looks like they put like Lemon.
Speaker 2:Yeah or nerds.
Speaker 1:What did we say? We said something like that yeah, we said some kind of candy, they just threw in there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it tasted like that. Okay, I think we're going to agree on one more of ours, maybe, maybe, go ahead and you throw one more out there, okay, the?
Speaker 1:Berry Buckle.
Speaker 2:Yep, that's it. That one, the ginger. I really wanted to like that one. I was so and I think that's part of the problem. Like the mint julep, I had no idea what I was walking into. And the same with the Sunspot, I think, the berry buckle and the French rose. I had such high hopes looking at those ingredient lists Muddle, blackberry and everything but it had ginger beer and it was so overpowering and it didn't go well with any of the other ingredients.
Speaker 1:Right, because we don't pick out drinks that we might not like. Yeah, we don't just throw a drink out there saying, oh, this could be OK. We try to pick drinks we're going to like every week. Yeah, right, and that's why we like so many of them. It's because we really look at the ingredients and how they make them before we and that we, and that goes along with our episode title. Yeah, and we don't we don't look at.
Speaker 2:Oh, that one looks like it'll suck right, let's try that. Yeah, that one's horrible, although we have we have done some that. I've looked and I thought, okay, that's gonna be weird, but I have a feeling disney's gonna do it right, and they do, and they do right.
Speaker 1:That's why we're okay, a lot right, like that. That's be just being adventurous, though. Yeah, let's just take that chance, right? Not thinking it's going to suck before you start it, like I try to look for a drink they made with dill, because I hate dill for a drink?
Speaker 2:I would never try. They did that pickle milkshake.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that sounds awful, yeah, right, but that's not like something I would suggest. Oh, let's try this dill pickle milkshake to see if I like it. And I hate dill, yeah Right, we would never do that. No, no, no, okay, so my last ones, it would be the mint julep. I mean seriously, my fifth one would be the mint julep. Oh, you didn't have another. I do have another one, but green orchard. Oh, because that's just simple, I don't love either beer, right, or the cider, beer cider.
Speaker 2:We had and see those were okay. The, the beer cocktail, or the beer that I didn't like was the jungle navigation. Shandy, you didn't like that it was.
Speaker 2:It was just okay, also there are. So widmer does a really good shandy. This one just missed the mark. Well, because it had blue moon in it and that's with orange right. It gets served with orange, not with lemon, and they should have used like a half right and the fact that they didn't it was although. Is blue moon a half or a wheat beer, I think it's part of a.
Speaker 1:It's a wheat beer, I think, but it has a. You put an orange in it instead of a lemon. Yeah, like you would if you had a wind mirror right.
Speaker 2:Either way, it was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they could have done so much better with that one I didn't remember that one as well enough to I kind of forgot about that. Yeah, the names I love I. I love the name of it and I kind of skipped by it because I still like the name and it stuck out in my mind because I really like shandy's uh-huh and that was really disappointing.
Speaker 2:I remember how disappointed.
Speaker 1:You were now that you said that. That we tried it and you really wanted to have a Shandy. You suggested the Shandy because I don't think I've ever had a Shandy, so I have nothing to compare it to and I think it had.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's right. We did that with the Frontierland episode, right, and so it was Jungle. Skipper Canteen, that was our only option for a drink Right. Skipper canteen, that was our only option for a drink Right. It was in the skipper canteen.
Speaker 1:Have we done all the lands?
Speaker 2:No, we need to revisit some lands.
Speaker 1:Do a Fantasyland episode.
Speaker 2:We did Adventureland.
Speaker 1:Frontierland. We should revisit that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we got some more lands to visit.
Speaker 1:See, this is the inner workings. You're seeing behind the scenes stuff, guys.
Speaker 2:You're hearing behind the scenes.
Speaker 1:Cheers to ears right now, you're not even having to pay for it. No, this is crazy. Yeah, right, wow, you guys are lucky. Okay. So next we went with two questions that you oh you have more to say on the. Well, we had bottom five no, no, no.
Speaker 2:So we had five different more drinks, five categories right. Drinks, five categories Right we had more categories.
Speaker 1:Next one was another categories, but we differed on the first two things we're talking about here, on how we did it. Yes, yes, yes, that's what I was gonna say, and these, none of my top five or bottom five.
Speaker 2:I went with a different drink even though probably that one of the top five drinks could have fit into these categories. Right, but I went with different drinks, Right and so these first two things.
Speaker 1:We did this. We came up with these ideas while I was at Disneyland yes, Yesterday. So we didn't actually talk about exactly how we're going to do it. So you did these next two. The least likely to try and most want to try, you went with drinks. We've already tried that you want and you are. You're never going to try in the park or are going to try in the park, correct?
Speaker 2:so drink I most want to try at the park, and that was one I haven't tried yet and we haven't done. And then I did favorite drink I'm least likely to order in the park that you've already tried that we've done.
Speaker 1:So I did my least favorite drink. I just looked at. I searched drinks like crazy today. Okay, To find one. I never try and I don't want to ever have. There's probably a lot on that list. I found one really good one. I think Okay, what was it? It is the Welsh Dragon. Where do you find that? You find that at Rosencrown in Epcot.
Speaker 2:Okay, Let me tell you about this drink.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's made. It's $15.50, which is dizzy cheap. Dizzy cheap yeah For a beverage and it comes with a lot of stuff, a lot of ingredients Peach, schnapps. Imagine these things together Peach schnapps, okay, melon liqueur, creme de menthe, orange juice and pineapple juice. It's two, four, five sweet things in a glass. It sounds like it's just, I know, and it's just minty pineapple-y, orange-y sweet and peach and melon, such different flavors.
Speaker 2:Well see, everything seems to go. Actually, four of those were pretty similar to a drink. What was it we just had with the peach schnapps in it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it has something else to calm it down, crandamint.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, that's to me sounds disgusting, so many things.
Speaker 1:It just looks disgusting too. It's a bright green, like green slime from Nickelodeon color. Oh ew In a big old hurricane glass.
Speaker 2:Oh, that just sounds gross, it just didn't look good. No, so that's the drink I'm least likely to ever try in the parks, minty melon Actually, mint would probably go with the melon better than any, better than the peach but not the orange.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know. Or the peach Sounds weird, yeah, that sounds't know, or the peach Sounds weird.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, that sounds like a car wreck.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Way to go, Disney.
Speaker 1:So you're least likely to try. Oh sorry.
Speaker 2:Go ahead, England Pavilion. They're probably making up for bland food or something.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Maybe it tastes good with some bangers of mash. Yeah, mash, yeah, I don't know we're with the fish and chips or something. I would just screw up your fish and chips it would.
Speaker 1:You'd be all delicious fish and chips and you're like, holy crap, you're all happy eating your fish and chips and you take a drink of that it was this ectoplasm thing.
Speaker 2:It's like I'm glad we beat you in the revolutionary war this is why we won.
Speaker 1:You deserved it for making your troops a welsh dragon, but we're drinking nice ales over here in America, hoorah.
Speaker 2:So favorite drink I'm least likely to drink or to order in the park is the cold brew martini. I don't think I'd ever try a cold brew martini in the park because they're easy to make. Oh, that's their reason, yeah, and there's so many other things I'd want to try. Like I don't know To me now, maybe if I were like at the Abracadabra and I'm at a bar and I'm just sitting there and I want to have a drink, I might do that. But a cold brew martini just doesn't seem like it'd go well with food, unless maybe, dessert.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2:I don't see myself ever ordering a cold brew martini at the parks, even though I think they're a great drink.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's fair, that's fair.
Speaker 2:So drink you most want to try.
Speaker 1:Yes, here's the one I most want to try. I want to do this for an episode so bad Haven't figured out how to do it. I've to do this for an episode so bad haven't figured out how to do it. I've looked on amazon to buy the mugs to make the drinks. You have to have the certain mug to make the drink, even to try to make it, so we can make it. It's called the uh ow, okay from trader sam, or yeah, trader sam's at disneyland right, yeah and it's.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna read this. I'm gonna read the ingredients. Okay, I I cut them on my phone because I don't want to write all these down.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Bacardi superior rum. Meyers, original dark rum juices of orange, passion fruit, guava, pineapple and grapefruit. Falernum, Falernum, Falernum. Got my glasses on. That's actually a glasses thing. That wasn't just me mispronouncing, just be mispronouncing. Like usual, cinnamon and fresh lime juice it's made in a tiki mug with like four those ingredients again okay, bacardi superior rum.
Speaker 2:Okay, you're saying we have most of them. We have that. Well, we have meyer's original dark rum.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we have dark rum you orange, orange pineapple or orange passion fruit, guava pineapple and grapefruit juice, so it's pog juice plus grapefruit juice.
Speaker 2:Calornum, we have that Cinnamon and fresh lime juice. So we have a little we can get cinnamon. I mean that's you have to have the mug Pineapple juice. It just doesn't work without.
Speaker 1:So you put the cinnamon on the sides of the mug. You light the middle on fire. You put most of the drinks in there. You pour the 151 over, you light the 151 on fire.
Speaker 1:You throw the cinnamon at the fire right, oh, yeah, okay, and you chant, there's something you chant like ugga, ugga, oh, waka, waka, wow something like that, right okay and you chant and then I don't know if you turn the lights off or they automatically go off with doing the chant, if you do the chant right, I think, I think it just happens with the tiki gods.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, I think yeah, they're very good with light switches.
Speaker 1:Yes, I mean I didn't listen to, I don't remember all the words the president united states america song tiki god. I mean I don't remember all the words to the President of the United States of.
Speaker 1:America song Tiki God. But it might have said something about at Disney, throwing a cinnamon in there, maybe. But you throw the cinnamon in and it sparks up and lights turn on and off and then you enjoy the drink. You splash it down in there. Okay, yeah, we're going to have to try that. We need to try it. We need to each buy a mug.
Speaker 2:I think we should just each order. Do we need?
Speaker 1:Tiki mugs yeah, they're special. There's all sorts of ones. You can buy them at Disneyland. Yeah, there's like 10 editions. They come out like every year, okay, and you can buy one. You can buy them on Amazon or Etsy or whatever, also right, or eBay. Okay, we can find them, because my only problem with buying stuff like that at Disney is I got to get it home, yeah. Right, I have such a I pack so tight, like the trip I just took, I took only a personal item.
Speaker 2:Yeah, on. The plane.
Speaker 1:It was a two-day trip and I stuffed my personal item so I did all the Disney 70s stuff there and I wanted to buy all of it. Yeah, and luckily for me, you just got a hat right and yeah you're welcome, christy. Yeah, no, I would have got yelled at more if I right. Yeah, if I'd done that. So that's my drink I most want to try, okay, in the parks. So so that's that's the only thing we differ.
Speaker 2:Oh, you have one you most want to yeah, right, and I've been trying to figure out how to do this for quite some time as an episode, and I don't know, maybe if we watch Coco and do something, I can watch Coco. But the La Cava Avocado, yes, you've been talking about that for a while and I've been there probably three, four days at and I still haven't tried it. It's available at La Hacienda de San Angel in the Mexico Pavilion. Let me scroll down and do it again.
Speaker 1:You like to say these things because you pronounce words better than me. You're just mocking me now, so La.
Speaker 2:Cava, avocado, trombola Blanco, tequila, melon, orange, liqueur, fresh Avocado, lime Juice and a Hibiscus Salt Ramp for $19. We would like that, yeah, and I think it might scare some people away because of the avocado which I get, but I've just always wanted to try it because everybody I watch on YouTube raves about it. So, yeah, that's the one I really have been wanting to try there at the parks. Okay, so we have three more most surprising drink for you most.
Speaker 2:My most surprising drink was the signature breezy marg that was very surprising and that was a very good marg. Yeah, margarita, for those you know, unsophisticated like us yeah. So yes, that was a good one, and we have all the fixings for that too, if we ever want to do that again. I think that sounds good too yeah.
Speaker 1:so guess what we're doing tonight, folks Revisiting all of these 52 drink night.
Speaker 2:Drinking around, disney Drinking around, cheers to ears. Oh, there's a challenge. So my most surprising drink was the PB&J cocktail from the TuneIn Lounge and I thought that was going to be very weird. It had what was was it the monkey something peanut butter, and I actually didn't pull this one up. But it had the blackberry right liqueur. It had peanut butter, yeah, whiskey, and what's the episode for that?
Speaker 1:what did we talk about? Because I don't, I don't, I don't remember what we, just how we decided oh, that was the kurt russell. Okay, because of he was a kid. He was a kid. There's where we did it right.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I just thought it was going to be really weird and it sounded weird. It was a. It was a good drink. Now I don't know if I'll ever I don't think I'll ever make one again, or if I'll ever like I. I don't know if I'd order it. Right. If I go back, like if I go back to tune in lounge, I'll probably just order another loaded schaffer hoffer, right, which we did that and I enjoyed that one a lot. But it was surprising to me, right.
Speaker 1:I thought that was going to be terrible so on, that I'm going to show you my paper again in a second. Okay, because when I first, before I left to go to california, I thought I'll try to get. I'll try and knock out as much as episode as I can okay, because all we had we taught five. Bottom five is our only for sure things we had at the time yeah, before I left, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I. I just looked down the list you sent me of all the drinks we've tried and I wrote here on my third one. You can see it's crossed out PB&J cocktail on my bottom five. Really, because I looked at the drinks and thought I couldn't have liked that.
Speaker 2:That sounds awful.
Speaker 1:I don't remember. I don't totally remember it exactly. I couldn't have liked it, though, so I wrote it down, and then, today at the airport, and when I got home, I listened to like the first five minutes of all of our episodes to see how we thought of the drinks and we started talking about it. We're like, holy crap, this is great.
Speaker 2:That was one when I did the Instagram reel. It was one of our most watched reels. Really Right around Christmas time that one blew up and it was the one. I actually was pouring it from the shaker over the. We had either the big block ice or something like that and I was pouring it and that was part of the reel that I made.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, the old-fashioned ice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so that's why it really sticks out in my mind. But it was again. I thought we're doing this because it fits with the theme, but this drink's going to suck and it didn't. It did not? Disney surprised. So what's your best? Martini? So cold brew martini is up there, but I think our concoction, the churro martini, the only way it could have been better is and I think we did veil vodka and churro baileys, yes, and then, as if we had a small piece of churro, like you know how they'll do the olive, but a piece of churro in there sounds great and just soaking it in there and eating the churro yeah, piece out of the yeah, so that I think was my best martini I just had four churros in the last two days and I don't eat that many.
Speaker 1:I usually have one per trip. Okay, usually that's because, or what? Yeah, I usually have one the last day I leave. I have a ritual right, okay but this time I got to the park and I wanted to try the fried chicken which we talked about, which I did finally I don't have to say bad words at you, no but I tried.
Speaker 1:The before I tried I was starving when I got there and I got to the park before pl Inn was serving lunch, where they still had character diving going on by the time I got to the park. So I grabbed a churro to tide me over. That's a good snack I can have. Won't get anything else. I'll just tide myself over, and then I'll still eat the chicken, because my usual thing is always go find the first food I can find.
Speaker 2:And then I'm not hungry. And I food I could find, and then I'm not hungry and I don't try what I want to try.
Speaker 1:I do that a lot. Go get a flop over yeah or something stupid from that place in in tomorrowland accident just because I'm there yeah, yeah, yeah I just don't want to say its name, just like I don't talk about that park up north.
Speaker 1:yeah, glad to grow is horrible, except for they have those magic key sliders. Oh, that look kind of interesting and I'm going to try them. If we go in September, if they still have them, I'll try them. Yeah, we will try them. Good, martini Churro. Martini is good that was a good one. My best, my number one, martini was the cold brew. Martini, was it.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:See now, I would have thought you would have gone with the grapefruit cake, martini, I thought about it. I like I said I wasn't. I think I said in one of the episodes I'm not a martini guy. Yeah, I'm a total martini guy.
Speaker 2:I like all our martinis pretty much you, and I think it was because you were, that was probably for surprising drinks. I think you were really down on that one and it kind of it surprised you because you were gushing about that one. Yeah, and rightly so. It was a great martini but and so I thought that would be the one that you would have gone yeah, this one, I just, I just the breezy marg, I didn't think would be any good either.
Speaker 1:It just doesn't sound like something would be good. Yeah, so it's totally shocked me.
Speaker 2:We've avoided margaritas as a whole. Right, we? We just haven't, really. We've done one, uh-huh, 52've done one. We should probably do more. Yeah, just to mix it up. Okay, we have one more category.
Speaker 1:Okay, and that's best fruity drink. I went back and forth on this one.
Speaker 2:For me it was Lapu Lapu. As far as it was Lapu Lapu, but because I wasn't picking from that list. Well, you're right.
Speaker 1:Lapu-Lapu is the best fruity drink.
Speaker 2:I went with the and okay, full disclosure the fruity drinks, and that's why we haven't done some in a while. They've all been tasting the same to me Now. The one that we just did with the schnapps was a little peach schnapps, but I think the Hippopotamite was my best fruity drink.
Speaker 1:I wrote down backscratcher to start. Then I really thought about it and I scratched off the backscratcher and I chose hippopotamite. So I've had both these in the parks but I had multiple hippopotamite.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you have. That's how.
Speaker 1:I talked, but the last one I had was a blah blah, blah, a tie-tie at the Disneyland Hotel, atland hotel, uh-huh, at trader sam's. Well, actually, on trader sam's the, the other one, the place right next to it, yeah, which is has the same drinks, yeah, except for the ow which isn't served there, right, but the hippopotamite tie was my. I was my go-to drink at dizzleland hotel when we stayed there.
Speaker 2:I just love it. Yeah, it's good drink. I like the fruity drinks. Oh, I do too.
Speaker 1:I think they all taste a little bit different, and they do, and it's good because we don't have to buy so many ingredients and we make the same drinks.
Speaker 2:We've already got all the ingredients.
Speaker 1:That's a key thing to the bottom line of cheers to ears.
Speaker 2:Yes, to me it was like the best balanced it was. It wasn't alcohol forward, it wasn't fruit forward or juice forward. It was a really good balance to everything, and I think that was a pretty boozy one too, it is I think it had like three shots in it or something that's me being roy to your walt on what drink should we try.
Speaker 1:I'm saying let's use what we have, yes, and spread it out. And you're saying let's move forward and try this drink no one's ever heard of before. These liquors we can only find in Central Asia.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what was that? I was looking for the Medina mixer that we did.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh.
Speaker 2:I was looking for the tangerine liqueur and couldn't find it, so we went with orange liqueur. I think that's when I want to try. When I go in june is because I'll be. Yeah, it's a good one day and a half at epcot and so I think I might run by there. I'm hoping I don't have to get a table at spice road table and then I can get it to go. But if I do, I'll just so. You just want to go to spice?
Speaker 2:road yeah, I just want to go spice Spice Road. Yeah, I just want to go to Spice Road. Forget the table. So anyway, yeah, hippopotamite, yep, best fruity drink. That's mine too.
Speaker 1:I like a lot of the fruity drinks though. Yeah, I forgot what I was going to say Go ahead.
Speaker 2:So I came up with another category as I was sitting here. So category best category of drinks, wow so, best category of drinks, wow so. Category on categories. So thinking, fruity drinks Okay, or martinis Okay, or let's go, I'll just call them cocktails, so like sipping cocktails. Oh that's a tough one for me, which would be all the old fashions your swing shift.
Speaker 2:Medina Mixer might fall into more of that category. The Coney Negroni we had it would be a lot of those. The French Rose might fall in, so as a whole, fruity drinks, cocktails or martinis what has been your favorite category, so for?
Speaker 1:having on the podcast while we sit here. Yes, right if I'm in the park, I'm probably getting a free drink. Yeah right, if I'm at the pool, probably getting a food free drink.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, right, yeah, these are, you have to yeah there's, so there's so much.
Speaker 1:That says southern california and central florida, with the fruity drink. Yeah Right, absolutely. But my favorite drinks over the past couple years and I actually put the Bartesian version, the old-fashioned, on my first draft of my top five. Okay, so it's going to be, the sipping drinks is going to be my favorite.
Speaker 2:The sipping drinks Okay.
Speaker 1:I love a good where you can taste the liquor. It's good liquor that you're actually having like, just like when I like. I like my food where I can taste the ingredients. Yes, I don't want a bunch of sauce covering my meat. Yeah I want to taste the meat and how well it was cooked that yeah same with my liquor I like to taste the stuff that's in it.
Speaker 1:That's, that's like good to me. But I'm sitting by the pool on a 90 degree day and I was in the park all day. A nice, a nice back scratcher or whatever. We talked about that drink we talked about while we did the my disney world recap last time that I had a couple times at the pool. Those are my favorites. So how about?
Speaker 2:you. So I have to go with the martinis, because we have yet to have a bad martini. They've all, and granted, we haven't had a lot, but they've all been good. So we've had the churro martini. Yeah, I'm pulling up the list here so that I I remember, because there's one, there's one that I'm kind of forgetting the cold brew martini. The grapefruit cake martini good one, and there's another.
Speaker 1:We had cold brew is the grapefruit cake served at boardwalk no, it's served at the brown derby because they have. That's right. That's another place I want to go oh, blueberry lemon drop martini.
Speaker 2:That was interesting and that was a good one, yeah, so that was also kind of surprising, because that was lemon vodka, and then I think we actually had real muddled blueberries in it too. We did. Granted, we've only had four different martinis, but I think that they've all been incredible, right, yeah, they've all been really good. So martinis have been my favorite category of drink that we've had so far.
Speaker 1:Perfect, yeah, and in the respect of fruity, then we obviously have more fruity drinks and we're going to have more fruity drinks.
Speaker 2:We are.
Speaker 1:It's going to happen.
Speaker 2:It's inevitable.
Speaker 1:Still love the Lapu Lapu, still your thing, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, just drinking as we talk. So, yeah, what do you think? What's your favorite category? Favorite category of drink? And? And is there a drink you think we should try on the show?
Speaker 2:yeah, have we missed anything?
Speaker 1:yeah, tell us, tell us something you would and don't send. We get. We get some stupid emails about like what was it?
Speaker 2:the 151 and no, it was like a brass monkey. Yeah, mad dog.
Speaker 1:2020 that kind of stuff we don't want to hear, like boone's farm in 1980 right that kind of stuff. We don't want to hear that kind of stuff. Just, I mean we can send us anything you want. Yeah, I mean we'll read them, but we won't respond yeah to that.
Speaker 2:So send us a text and tell us a drink we should try right, or, or a type of drink, or I love a martini Right. Tell us where to find it, because it's hard to find a drink at what bar or restaurant it's at.
Speaker 1:Or the opposite, Just if you had a drink you don't even know. I had this one fruity drink that had this stuff in it, and we'll try to find it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We'll do that legwork for you and we'll drink it, and we'll drink it. All right, we'll take that. We'll take that for you, we will. So yeah, so thank you for listening to our 52nd episode, aaron. We've done this a year, one year down, and we're still going strong.
Speaker 2:Many years to go, many years, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1:So, cheers.
