Today's the day 180 day ADR-maggedon

Perhaps CHH for lunch on your last MK day ??

In that case for sit down i would say Liberty Tree tavern , Or for counter service it has to be Cosmic Rays (cheesy but predictable)

I'd shoot over to Kona for lunch at the Poly on your last day! So yummy!

Apologies in advance for hijacking this thread and taking it off on a tangent.

Can someone who "doesn't eat seafood" explain this to me?

I understand not liking certain foods. I don't care for lamb or organ meats in the broader family of "red meat." But I happily eat beef, pork, and occasionally more exotic stuff like venison or bison.

I also don't like most mild, flaky white fish like cod and haddock, but I love shellfish and most of the firmer, oilier fish like tuna, salmon, and swordfish, as well as fish that are somewhere in the middle between white and dark/oily, like catfish and snapper.

To me, saying "I don't like seafood" is like saying "I don't like red meat." I know plenty of people who don't eat red meat, but it's usually an ethical decision, not that they don't like any kind of red meat. (My almost-vegan niece has been known to down a cheeseburger in a moment of weakness.) I don't know anyone who simply doesn't like the taste of every kind of red meat there is. Yet people will make such blanket statements about all seafood all the time, even though cod tastes nothing like tuna, and salmon tastes nothing like shrimp.

So I'm thinking, if someone says they don't like seafood at all, they probably just haven't tried many different kinds of seafood. They had mediocre fish sticks or overcooked haddock as a kid, hated them, and never gave anything else a proper chance, never experienced a perfectly prepared piece of swordfish or some sushi-grade tuna seared on the outside and still red and moist on the inside.

So what's the scoop, you who hate seafood? Have you tried it all and just don't like it all, or are you judging all fish based on the crap they served in your school cafeteria?

I can't comment on the whole seafood thing but now i really want to try me a "land food Pie"

I can't comment personally on the seafood thing because my personal motto is "if its from the sea, its for me".. I also don't eat any "land meat" so I'm basically a vegetarian who dabbles in seafood (technical term a pescatarian). However, my boyfriend used to be (and still kind of is) one of those "I hate seafood people". Now when we first started dating that just wasn't going to work for me so I made it my mission to get him to try stuff. Now its a matter of, he doesn't like "fishy" seafood. For example, anything that tastes overly briney (clams, oysters, etc.) or too much of that technical fishy taste (salmon, some kinds of white fishes, etc) just don't do it for him. He's also a freak and won't eat anything under medium well so sushi and raw seafood is out even though I've tried so many times for him to just "TRY THE D**N SUSHI" haha. He will eat things like mahi mahi, tuna steaks and shrimp, if cooked well and with a good marinade, now. He'll also eat fish tacos and stuff like that.. And he'll try crab and lobster but they have to be in something like a pasta or risotto. I think a lot of it is lack of exposure to it. When he was young he just didn't eat seafood of any kind and never tried it, and when he did try it, it was like you said, the cheap cafeteria fish sticks, or flounder that isn't very well cooked. I'm the same way as you, I find so many different flavors in fish/seafood and I can't imagine not liking it. But I guess its exposure, my Dad has been feeding me sushi since I was little and I could pick a crab when I was 2, so its just always been part of my diet, but some people its just not something they consider.

I like some seafood, more the milder flavours (halibut, tilapia, haddock etc) and definitely no sushi, nor fishy smells for me!

BUT, CHH offers more than just seafood - I had chicken pot pie when we were there for MNSSHP and it was quite tasty!

I think you're right CCP that a lot of us have bad memories of horribly prepared "fish" dishes. I can't eat anything like squid, mussels, etc. since a really bad encounter with octopus. It was just vile, and it felt like I was chewing an eraser. I will however happily eat cod, haddock, and scallops, things that aren't really 'fishy' tasting. My son is working on getting me to try sushi, but it hasn't happened yet.

Funny, that's exactly how Joe describes me! Maybe that's why I always drag him to Cosmic Ray's.....

I have a new phrase to use! ADR-maggedon. I love it!

We really enjoyed Liberty Tree Tavern as well for lunch. The pot roast was superb!

For me, it's generally a texture thing. I have tried to like fish, and in my mind I think I should like fish. I can even look at a fish dish and think that it looks delicious. However never once when I have tried those dishes have I actually liked fish - or shellfish. I know that if the world went terribly wrong and all I had was fish to eat, I would somehow choke it down and maybe even come to enjoy it. But right now when I have a choice, no thanks, I'll pass.

On that same note, I'm also very picky about other meats as well. Right now I'll eat farm raised pork, beef, chicken and turkey. I do not care for the grassy, herbal flavor of game animals or exotics. I did for quite some time give up beef and pork altogether because the texture wasn't working for me.

My "go to" is Pecos Bills, but husband and I really enjoyed Columbia Harbour House last year. I want to try something new (to me) in February so I think we'll be heading over to Cosmic Ray's.

Go here to keep the seafood question going and let's give DBD his thread back!

http://www.wdwforgrownups.com/forum/ccps-question-about-seafood

or Grand Floridian Cafe or The Wave.

I am looking forward to your review of Cinderellas Table...

For that table service lunch at MK on day seven, I also highly recommend taking the boat to the Polynesian and trying Kona Cafe. That was one awesome lunch we had there earlier this month. And it wasn't very crowded, so you should have no problem getting an ADR there. I also highly endorse The Wave; we had dinner there, not lunch, but I'm sure the midday fare is just as awesome.

As for inside the park, we have never eaten table-service at MK but will try Liberty Tree Tavern in November, the menu looks interesting enough.