After settling into our hotel room, Ean and I went straight to Epcot so we could begin our food journey around the world.
Our first stop was Greece.
Since it was a Saturday evening and a holiday weekend, the park was CROWDED. We had to wait several minutes in the lines at each booth (later on in our trip, we could just walk right up to a register and order, then get our food immediately... Saturday night was crazy busy). Most of the people there were locals, and most of them were already drunk out of their minds by 6 PM. This wasn't a good start to the trip because insanely drunk people are always annoying beyond belief, and it just makes you wonder why 21 is the legal drinking age when these people are in their 30's-50's and acting worse than your regular 3-year-old toddler. Many of them had small children with them. Many of them were there in large groups with t-shirts that advertised their desire to drink until they were drunk as ever. All of them were stumbling around, shouting profanities at the top of their lungs, sloshing their beer everywhere, and acting like trashy fools.
I do hope they enjoyed themselves.
I know this very first experience made Ean very skeptical about the whole thing. I know he most likely questioned why I loved it so much. From the second we first got in line at the Greece booth Saturday evening and all the way through until our adventures the next day, I know he wondered what the appeal was. I will let you know that by Monday, he was able to see what was so amazing about it, because by Monday, all the crazy people had gone leaving only the level-headed guests who know how to handle alcohol, and who know when enough is enough.
I was grateful for that.
So yes, Greece!
Despite our crazy start, Greece ended up being wonderful, as always. We ordered the spanakopita, which was absolutely delicious. That's been one of my favorite dishes since I first experienced the festival with my family back in 2006. Ean and I have spanakopita at events we work all the time, but we normally serve it room temperature. Greece's steaming hot, super flaky, and extremely flavorful spanakopita was top notch. Ours at work is amazing and super delicious, but having it hot and super flaky was out-of-this-world good.
Spanakopita is a savory spinach pie. Disney serves them in little triangles of phyllo dough stuffed with spinach and feta cheese, among other seasonings.
Greece had several other delicious offerings that we would have loved to have tried if we had a chance. They offered vegan moussaka with Gardien sausage crumbles (Gardien is a brand of fake meat that is super delicous), greek salad in a cone, and chicken gyro with tzatziki sauce.
They also offered three different Greek wines (domaine skourus moscofilero, domaine sigalas assyriko athiri, and alpha estate axia syrah xinomavro) and a tzatziki martini (made with a cucumber vodka and BOLS natural yogurt liqueur). Though that martini sounded very interesting, we mainly focused on food for this journey. Maybe next year.
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