Miscellaneous Disney Stuff

[Kevy Baby]

Is there a difference between "corn chips" and "tortilla chips?"

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Is there a difference between "corn chips" and "tortilla chips?"

If by 'corn chips' you mean Frito's and its imitators those are made with a thick corn meal, and don't start out as tortillas. (But, yes, it's just another variation of basically the same ingredients. Like most Ameri-Mex food)

So, my contention about the old Toasted Corn Doritos is that they had a flavor distinct from say, Tostitos, which are also fried corn tortillas. They are similar, but not identical, and its those old school plain Doritos I crave when I eat guacamole.

I too remember when Nacho Cheese Doritos was a new twist on the standard chip.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Yes. Not all tortillas are made from corn. Not all chips are made from tortillas.

[Kevy Baby]

Apparently Tostitos makes a flour tortilla chip

[Ghoulish Delight]

Went to the park tonight. Saw a group of 4 gentlemen (2 "younger", probably my age and 2 "older") dressed in nice suits. At least a couple had bow ties. I got behind them in the entry gate line, heard one of the younger ones relaying Disney "trivia"*. I then saw the same one pull out a Club33 card as his pass. Inside, I saw another group of people also dressed very formally. And later a third group. Me thinks something was up at Club33 tonight.






* I put "trivia" in quotes for a reason. The first thing I heard him say was the old story of Walt walking the park and whenever he'd see a few pieces of trash on the ground in the same location he'd tell facilities to add a trash can. Legit trivia. Then he said, "Here's a fun fact. When they were building Pirates of the Caribbean they had all the skeletons made from fake bones. But they didn't like the way they looked. So they went to UCLA or USC and got real bones to make all the skeletons out of. Later they got better at making fake bones, but there are 2 skeletons that are still real." o.0

[LSPoorEeyorick]

I believe it was the 45th anniversary of the club today, and there was a party. A friend on FB attended.

[Morrigoon]

I believe I heard the skull on the headboard of the bed was real. Never knew if that was true, though your story makes it plausible.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

hough your story makes it plausible.

Really? You find it plausible that Disney could just go to UCLA and pick up 15 or so human skeletons for an amusement park ride?

[Alex]

I have no idea of the accuracy of it (Imagineers are just as susceptible to folklore as the rest of us), but Imagineer Jason Surrell seems to be the source of the story in his book Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies.

Originally Posted by Page 80

Skeletons in the Closet - and the Basement

Because the original Imagineering team felt that the faux skeletons of were just too unconvincing, the Grotto sequence originally featured real human remains obtained from the UCLA Medical Center. The skeletons were later returned to their countries of origin and given a proper burial when a new generation of Imagineers replaced them with equally convincing facsimiles.

I don't necessarily find the idea of real bone skeletons that hard to believe. They aren't actually that difficult to get your hands on and I imagine it was probably much easier in the '60s than now (India used to be the main supplier of them but they banned export of human bones in the '80s, China did the same about a decade ago).

The part I find harder to accept is that when done with them they'd actually be returned to countries of origin for burial.

[RStar]

Do/did they keep track of whose bones they are? Like a code stamped on the bottom of a foot related to a registry or something? Is there even a need for real ones anymore (with mass produced facimilies possible)?

I agree, Alex. If they have no reference number or identifier, a skeleton would show up at some address with a note:

"This person came from this part of the world. Please be sure it gets a proper burial. Thank you."

How could they, and who would pay for it?

With a statement like that, I would wonder about the rest of what Jason Surrell said.