Do you think you’re gonna live forever No, I just Just ’cause the way your arms look? Thank you for that, I’m very flattered, I’m not interested, but I’m flattered . To understand the food of our present, we must first understand the food of our past. That’s why we’re recreating the most notable meals throughout history and today we are going to the happiest place on earth. Oh, my neck, my back, my , and my crack? Ha! Whoa! We’re recreating foods from the earliest moments of Disney Land. Then I guess it’s time for Meals of History! Meals of History! All right Emily, we are traveling back in time to 1955 that is the first year that Disney Land opened and Walt Disney who pretty much like invented the modern theme park thought that food should be just as much as an attraction as all the rides. Oh cool, it’s also like the only place I can walk around with a giant turkey leg and not be bothered about it. Yeah, I like all the foulic foods at Disney Land, I only eat turkey legs and I also don’t know what folices look like. No kidding, I was about to say dng Josh. They had all these restaurants that are like themed after things if you look at this map right here, this breaks down all the restaurants. Whoa! They were all attached to brains weirdly so you had like the Carnation Dairy Hut and they were all themed around things. So you had like the pirate themed chicken of the sea tuna restaurant Oh! You had Casa De Fritos, their Mexican Restaurant, we’re gonna be making two dishes from there. But they also had you know like this Golden Horseshoe, it was like this big steak and chop house to like reference the California Gold Rush. Nice! So it’s actually really cool and there’s a lot of history going on inside Disney Land and a lot of food history itself. Oh cool look, there’s that thing that Jeff Bezos did. Yeah Jeff Bezos was actually there. He was there. Yeah, he was the lizard person buried underneath Disney Land that would come out at night to eat the cats. He’s a lizard highlander. All right Emily, you ready to get to it? Yeah, this is gonna be fun. I’m excited, you gonna dress up, I’m gonna cook? Yeah, I’m very, I’m very excited. Just like old times. It’s good to be back. And here she is, Miss America. Time for my bath. No, please Miss. It’s time for my bath. No Miss please, I don’t know. It’s time for my bath? I’m not here to bath you. Ma’am can you help me make the food from the opening menu at Disney Land, do you know anything about that? Did you know I used to work as Snow White in Disney Land? You seem like you still do, you got the whole getup on. That’s very nice of you, try to keep this up. You just, how long have you been wearing this? It smells awful. Wearing what? Ah, I don’t know, they put it on me. Are you part of like an unethical conservatorship? What is wrong? No, I live at Cedar Pines. Yeah In Reno. I do love Reno. These people came and they put me in a van. I’m glad that you got in the van because right now we are making my favorite item from the opening menu at Disney Land, this is from the Chicken of the Sea Restaurant. It was an entire tuna themed restaurant. Wait, I used to work at Disney Land. Yes, I know Blanche, I’m assuming your name is. No, it’s Judith Baths! Sorry, Judith . I’m gonna open this can of tuna. Listen, I’m remembering something. I worked at the park, I was Snow White, I was one of the first ones. And that was one of Disney’s biggest movies that like opened the park, right? It was an important movie, I relate to it very much. In what way? My parents are dead and I love apples. That’s great, I like living in a small shack with seven people, LA living, am I right? Got ’em! All right so this is from the Chicken of the Sea Restaurant. They had a Chicken of the Sea Restaurant? If you ever think that we sell out to brands, Walt Disney and the opening Disney Land like restaurants, he sold every single restaurant to a major food brand. And the most insane one to me was the Chicken of the Sea pirate ship restaurant, it was shaped like a pirate ship, opened in 1955. God, that’s so gross. This is like my least favorite food. Ugh, ugh! Why is it so pink? ‘Cause it’s the cheapest tuna we could find. Oh God! So we’re making a hot tuna pie. You’re making a hot tuna pie. I’m covered in tuna juice, can I just? No! I’m sorry. Start dumping everything into the tuna. Everything? So they made a hot tuna pie, they also, the Chicken of the Sea Restaurant, they had tuna burgers, they had something called a dietetic tuna salad which for me is the funniest thing frozen in history. What is dietetic? It’s the old school term for like nutritionists. They were just like dieticians, they practiced dietetics. That sounds like Scientology. That sounds like a prequel to dietetics. Exactly, okay, oh God. So there was no actual recipe for the hot tuna pie. We could not find a real recipe. What we wanna do is put the entire can in there. Did you lose the metal in there? So we’re putting a whole can of Cream of Mushroom Soup because this is 1955, right? This is like space age food, this is like people were so excited at the prospect, just throw it wherever. People were so excited by like the new technology of canning, it was supposed to like release women from the shackles of domesticity if they didn’t have to cook all the time. Boy, what a novel idea of how to do that. Yeah right just canned gelatin and mayonnaise. Gelatin mayonnaise. So we’re adding like canned peas in there, we got canned tuna, we got canned cream of mushroom soup, we’re adding a little bit of flour, can you unwrap this dough and start rollin’ it out a little bit? Oh, this is cute. Yeah, it smells like cat food. Yeah, definitely definitely does. But we’re gonna make it hot? We’re gonna make it real hot. Wrap it in pastry dough. Oh, also smell this. You just got old eggs. No, oh it’s just old eggs. I don’t mind. They put chopped hard boiled egg in everything at Chicken of the Sea Restaurant. They did, they also, everything was deviled. Everything was deviled. Deviled ham, deviled eggs. I love that deviled is just like we mix it with mayonnaise and a little bit of paprika in there. Or it’s like gelatin, but I guess that, what was with all the gelatin? Well it was just like a new technology that was just like for funsies it was like holy crap we can Lincoln had that gelatin thing that we made. You should totally watch that video But that was like natural gelatin and this is like packaged gelatin ’cause they used to have to like boil down bones to make gelatin but now they sold the little gelatin packets ’cause that’s why there’s gelatin in mayonnaise and bananas and everything in the ’50s because like tropical fruits were new because the US was just like out you know, colonizing every island they could find at this time and annexing Hawaii and Puerto Rico and all this and so there was just all these like tropical fruits that people didn’t have access to so that’s why there’s like bananas wrapped in ham covered in mayonnaise ’cause they were just excited about it. Are you gonna tell me what to do with this? Oh can you just like roll it out a little bit, sorry. Just like wrap a little flour over there, put that out, start rolling it. So the gelatin became boxed instead of grinding bones, I guess that was Yeah yeah yeah To make women free. That was to free the women To free the women. As a women, did it work? Yeah no, although when I eat boxed gelatin, I feel free. You never feel more free. I feel free! All the like Herbal Essences shampoo commercial should just be from boxed gelatin. Word, man I miss those commercials. Just a lady eatin’ jello in a salad, in a shower. That’s what I wanna see. People aren’t allowed to get horny for shampoo anymore. You can get horny for jello though, I can tell ya that. It’s just a shame. I’m horny for jello. I’m horny for shampoo that smells like that. Speaking of smells, Disney Land must’ve had some great smells back in the day. There is a distinct theme park smell Yeah. That is like hot butt crack, like wet butt. That’s the people from Florida. No, it’s just like, you sit on those water slides in jorts. Yeah Or in your like, you know Lord knows I’m there. Here, you stir the tuna. Thanks! I’m gonna take the dough. Is anything worse looking than this? Uh no, try a bite though, you just eat some? Absolutely not. Why not? Because I just don’t This is the low carb, dietetic, this is like, you know they just have the wine and cigarette diets back then, this is like that but tuna. I’m not familiar with that. Just like, you know, I don’t do stuff I don’t wanna do. But I feel like you know, working at Disney Land from inception you kinda had to do a lot of things you didn’t want to do. You had to, but once you get past a certain age, you don’t have to do anything you don’t wanna do. What’s that certain age that you have to get past? Other than get old and die but you know, that’s neither here nor there, what? At what age do they like retired Disney Princesses? ‘Cause like what was your job at the park? No no they’re still there. But like do they, like is that a job that you can you know work 40 years and retire? Oh retire, when did I retire is what you’re asking? Yes. Well, when I was 20 years old I played Snow White in 1955. How much money did you make? Money? Oh, they did not, labor laws were tough back then I suppose. I was paid in a handful of tuna casserole. They said good work. You just got like tuna war rations. I got, you know, you put it in your purse, you saved it for later. When I reached old age at 25 Oh no, honey I’m so sorry. They made me the queen, I was the queen, the evil queen. A spinster I suppose they would’ve called you in those terms. Yes, I got to be the one after the transformation. Yeah. I fought for the other one and they were like eh, maybe not for you. You didn’t have a lot of sort of power in your roll. So children thought I was a witch. Yeah. I had a house that was black, it had a black roof and black windows. What was that, that was just an aesthetic choice for you? Had black walls, do you know what color the bricks were? What color were they? They were black, you idiot. You have black. I’m sorry , I didn’t know. I didn’t want to assume. I’m sitting here trying to connect with you, and you just won’t. I don’t know that we have much in common, I’m so sorry, I just don’t, this isn’t like, I’m not really hitting it off. You seem incredibly depressed. I’m not depressed, I just have a lot of ailments. From all the canned tuna? I mean is it all the lead-based paint? Sweetheart, sweetheart, it’s called mortality. I don’t know, do you think you’re gonna live forever just ’cause of the way your arms look? Thank you for that, I’m very flattered. I’m not interested, but I’m flattered. That’s looking great, yeah you wanna just like fill these up. God, people just Everyone just smelling like log ride jorts and tuna. So is this in a restaurant or did people like walk around with these? I assume people did walk around with them ’cause they were serving mostly hand held foods. They also had a commemorative tuna salad that was served in a boat. Commemorative! You were supposed to, literally so the way that you take like commemorative you know, drink cups home, they had a commemorative tuna salad boat that you were supposed to just eat wet tuna out of and then walk around with this wet tuna boat throughout the park God! And everyone wore like suits to Disney Land back in the day, so they’re just sweating through wool with just tuna in their knapsack. Yeah. I want, that’s the heir of Disney Land that I wanna go to. I bet the lines were a little easier though. The lines were definitely easier. But there was probably not very many rides. They had like mules through Frontierland where you could just go ride a mule and that was the ride. Wow! That’s the Disney Land that I want. We gotta open up our own jenky park where it’s just like we painted a mule like a zebra, do you wanna ride it? Have you seen, you gotta go, go on the internet children. Children . And look up Theme Park in the Netherlands, oh. What, what is it? It’s terrifying, I don’t know, it’s just like, you know how animatronics are just terrifying? I love animatronics, I know someone whose deathly afraid of animatronics, I love them. I am terrified of them. No I’m not. Especially the ones in the water, there’s a name for it, I don’t remember it. Like if you’re underwater and you just happen to see like a dragon’s head Yeah I’d be fine with that You’d be, I’d die, I would die. No no no, I’m fine with that. I like the animatronics ’cause I can control them. What if you saw It’s not like the bossy dynamics robots where I’m incredibly afraid. I’m not afraid of those. It’s not cute when they dance! I’m not afraid of those, they fall over for no reason. They are not good. It’s kind of like backflipping over obstacles. Yeah, while we’re making fun of Jess Bazas for wasting money let’s make fun of Boston Dynamics too. If I see any robot delivering food, I’m kicking it into the street. Uh-huh, yeah. I don’t care what you ordered. I agree. I don’t care if you like had a hard day at work, I’m kickin’ it in the street. And I’m taking your Little Ceasar’s crazy bread. Yes, it’s just asking for it, it’s begging to be messed with, right? All right I’m gonna cut a little vent hole. We got these hot tuna pies ready to go, we got all the Cream of Mushroom Soup, we got all the cheese in there, and then we’re gonna pop these in the oven, all right and then we can eat our hot tuna pies! Okay, that sounds good. Judy, how’s your arthritis doing today? Oh, okay are we doing it on a scale of the frowny face all the way to the happy face? Yeah. It’s the one in the middle that’s like why won’t I die? God, you sound like my grandma, except she’s Jewish. Would you like a candy? Yeah, kinda actually. Oh God, you actually have it. How old is this? This isn’t supposed to be a hard candy, this is a soft candy that’s turned hard in your purse. Well it was my Grandmother’s candy, she had this watermelon candy in her house and then, it’s not her, yeah I plucked it from her dead hands at the funeral, Josh. No, I bought it online, and they still make it and it’s good so you’re welcome. Thank you so much, can you pour that water into the masa here? So right now we are making what’s called a taco in a tac-cup that is a portmanteau of taco in cup. This is at the Casa De Fritos Restaurant in Frontierland. It was literally again, Walt Disney sold every single restaurant at Disney Land to a major food manufacturer in Fritos at the time, it was about a 23 year old company, that’s founded by CE Deuland in 1932, and so they had Deuland. You like that one? It’s a funny name. Emily, can you put the water in the masa and mix it up, I’m gonna make the beef. Wait! I’m waiting! I have to put down my purse You do what you’re gonna do, I’m gonna cook. I’m gettin’ my beef workin’, so we’re making what Disney Land sort of thought Mexican food was in 1955 Water in that, water in that? Pour it in that and then mix it aggressively with the fork So right now, this is just water, it’s masa. Oh God, you’re getting oil in the fryer. You said aggressively. All right, so this is like, a lot of people will credit Casa De Fritos at Disney Land for kind of inventing the taco salad, it was called a taco in a tac-cup, there was an actual original mold for the tac-cup design in like the Smithsonian Museum. I did a bad job. Just mash it, mash it with your hands, go in with your hands. Oh okay. Here, roll up your sleeves, I won’t, I’m not gonna bathe you but I will roll up your sleeves. Don’t sue! The wrists are the worst part! Is it raining? Are you one of those that you can feel the weather in your bones? No, I just use my wrists a lot at my job. Doing what? Doing what, what do you use your wrists for? Are you sure you got retired from your job when you were 25 because of your age? I didn’t get retired, I got demoted to witch. Did they cut your tuna rations in your purse when you got demoted? No, I still got the same tuna. They’re very generous. Well good for them, equitable wages at early Disney Land. Yeah, they fed us well. We got the beef sauteing, I just seasoned it with salt and pepper, ’cause I assumed what Disney Land thought were Mexican spices in the 1950’s wasn’t exactly where we’re at today. I’m also just taking some very corn syrupy taco sauce, taco sauce is really interesting, it’s kind of before people in America, well white people in America knew what salsa was, they kinda created a hybrid of ketchup and hot sauce and called it taco sauce. What am I doing? It’s so hard sometimes to figure out what to do when you just talk about Hold on, hold on. Conspiracy theories for like 10 minutes and I just like touch things. Need to add a little bit more water. Yeah, that’s dry. Give this masa a little more There we go, mash, now mash that aggressively. Yeah there ya go, there ya go. I’m gonna stir this around. So yeah like I was saying. Here we go, here we go. No, this is really cool because they would take the masa and they literally put it into tart shells and then they clamp the tart shells with like a stick thing What? And then they deep fried it and so this when you get like the big tostada salads, from like the El Pollo Loco, that’s like, this is the precursor to that. I think it’s really cool, but they actually didn’t make their own taco shells in there that was from a company called Alex Foods, now called Don Miguel foods and so like they were getting pretty much everything else except for this, this is the only thing Casa De Fritos sort of invented for themselves. And then, in like the 1970s, Doritos were invented because a salesman from Don Miguel Foods. Smells really good Smells good, yeah. Three ingredients. A sales rep literally came into Casa De Fritos, saw they were throwing away old tortillas and they were like, you can just fry those up and put some seasonings on ’em and that was the origin of Doritos. Oh wow! Which is crazy. So yeah, without Casa De Fritos and Frontierland at Disney, you wouldn’t have Doritos and you would never have the tac-cup. Hell yeah! An enduring name that everybody remembers. This kinda looks like what Ted Kennedy got that girl out of the car in the bottom of the pond with. Were you there? Maybe. Gonna take some masa and I’m gonna pop it in the bottom of this here tart shell. What kinda oil are you using for this? I always ask oil questions now! You always ask, it’s always the same oil! It’s just like normal. You complimented me that one time and now that’s the only question I ask. I just like to talk about your various ailments in character. Oh, okay. Well we can talk about what I’m probably gonna get. How’s your dental health? Oh not good! Are those your teeth? Which of those teeth are yours? Oh that’s a tough question, currently and in the character Oh yeah, that’s right. Oh we both talk about dental issues. Oh no, I just got my first crown. Hey, mazel, that’s exciting! No it’s not, I mean it’s just only downhill from here. Sometimes I think about dentures and I’m like. It’d be nice? No, it wouldn’t be nice, but it would at least be one less thing to worry about. I agree with that. I’m trying to get dentures when I’m like 35. When you’re 35? Yeah, just get it real early. Oh you mean my age? Oh hold on, hold on, hold on. All right our expertly spiced taco meat is done. Hey wait, actually sorry. So we’re using both of these for the creation of one so what we would do is they would mold all the fritos masa dough into this tart shell, they would take another tart shell pop it on top and then we’re gonna clamp it, I assume you want me to do this one. Um ‘Cause we’re gonna clamp this and throw it in the fire. That’s a very intimidating looking thing, yeah. Yeah, I don’t even understand but this is literally, you can see the picture of this, it’s in a freaking museum the original tool. Oh actually, I’ve had an exam with something similar. I’ve never done this before but we’re just gonna, don’t lean your face over, don’t lean your face over. Oh okay. ‘Cause if you get hit it’s like that lady with the McDonald’s coffee like you’re done, you’re destroyed. Oh yeah yeah yeah. Yeah yeah yeah. All right give it, give it like a solid 30 seconds. Okay. Don’t lean over, don’t breathe, just go smell the taco meat if you want. It smells nice. I’m gonna smell, go smell the taco meat? It smells like school lunch the taco meat. They had a lot of cool stuff at Casa De Fritos though, they served like tamales, they had combo plates. Yeah And then they also had frito pie which is really cool. Oh! ‘Cause it’s like chili and Walt Disney’s favorite food was chili, when he would travel to Europe, he would bring his own canned chili, the weirdest thing is that it wasn’t one brand of canned chili, he would take one can of Dennison’s Chili, mix it with a can of Hormel Chili, like a Master Sommeliers blending wine varietals and that was Walt Disney’s favorite meal. Do you know you said chili so many times that it reminded me of when an old lady goes into a tangent and just repeats the things she remembers. I had a silver serving tray and a puter serving tray and then a plastic serving tray and then she’ll start over. Yeah yeah yeah, did I tell you about? I’m leaving the silver one to my niece Bernice. Niece Bernice, it’s like a dentist named Dennis. They just start repeating the same things. All right, so we got that out, now I’m just gonna, there we go, don’t burn yourself! Wow! So now we got a little friend tac-cup. That’s so cute! Look at that! So we’re gonna do that a couple more times and then we’re gonna fill it with the beef and then we got a couple more little Casa De Fritos accoutrements to pop in there. Okay cool! All right Judy! What? We gotta fill up our little tac-cups here. So, I’m gonna go with the hot stuff, I’m gonna go in with a little bit of beans first, that’s a lot of beans first. A little bit of beans first then we’re gonna hit it with the beef, then cheeese, then you’re gonna do the lettuce, sour cream and tomatoes. Emily, the person inside the Judith. What, what’s up? Do you like Disney Land, like do you go often? I do not, I’m more of a Disney World kinda girl. I hope that’s okay. Oh! ‘Cause it’s like, I don’t know, that’s the one I went to as a kid. But my Papaw. Oh course you have a Papaw. I had a Mimi and a Papaw and Papaw had Chrone’s Disease, so then we kinda went to the front. That’s the way to do it. ‘Cause he had the handicap pass. Find yourself a Papaw with Chrone’s Disease you get to the front of the line. Just hang out with your grandparents more, you should just do it. That too, that too. But yeah no, he would get us to the front and then he wouldn’t get on the ride . I always thought I hated Disney Land and then I went there as an adult and then I found out that if there is a corresponding craft beer festival and you drink a couple of those corresponding craft beers. Mhm! Then you have a really great time at Disney Land. I don’t think I would do Disney Land sober. No no no, but like as an adult going you know, getting just like a little bit shwastey. I got a mini mouse ears that I got customized with my hebrew name Yeshewa on it and now I wear that as a yamaka. Aw, that’s cute. Is that sacrilegious? I’m the wrong one to ask . Judy, we’ve got our tac-cups from Casa De Fritos in Frontierland. Oh, they’re very cute! They’re very cute, you wanna put these in your purse? This is a Christmas bonus. If I had known we were gonna do this bit, I would’ve gotten an uglier purse. You know, there’s not a lot of distance from here to there. It’s just, take them and eat them over there. Let’s do it and I got a couple other special things from Disney Land’s opening menu that we’re also gonna eat. Oh really? Yeah, do you have any things that don’t agree with your stomach? Probably but I ignore them and just keep living. Judy, I hope this reminds you of your time at the park when it was open. We got our tuna pies, we got the tac-cups, we have our little commemorative tuna boat salad. Aw! You can take that home for the grandkids. My payment! Yes yes, this is your Christmas bonus. We also have the Matterhorn Sundae, this is from The Carnation Restaurant, then also most of the food at Disney Land was just like ham sandwiches, so we got some of that, little bit of frito pie. Oh, nice. But first let’s dig into these tac-cups right here, cheers to your many years of service. Very nice to meet you, don’t make me go back to the place where I came from please. This is an absolute delight. This is gonna get stuck in the roof of my dentures but it’s worth it. I would love to just walk around Disney Land eating this, I would love to eat this at a Superbowl party. I would eat this literally anywhere. This is truly a fantastic food. Mmm, wash it down with your exotic fruit juice from Tahiti ’cause this is also a thing they had at Disney Land, they were obsessed with Tahiti and so cheers. Cheers! Here’s some fruit juice with it. Strong. Wow! I haven’t tasted real sugar in a very long time. Let’s dig into these tuna pies. I’m gonna take it out of the shell. You do smell the tuna through the crust. I can’t smell much anymore. Eat your tuna pie, that will make the pain go away. Oh! Yeah! Yeah it’s pretty good. This tastes like a just out of The Great Depression food. This is really good. The salty Cream of Mushroom Soup from the can, they knew how to live back in the 1950’s. A lot of bad stuff as well. Yeah! But man, the hot tuna pie, we can keep that, throw a lot of the other cultural institutions away though. Yeah, there were a few things back then that probably weren’t great. All right, let’s try some of this. So this is a tuna boat salad. Tuna salad but here, you get to take a little commemorative boat home, look at that. That’s adorable. Isn’t it? I’m not eatin’ it cold. Mmm, that Chicken of the Sea. Dig into the Matterhorn Sundae though. Wow, this is beautiful. So this is from Carnation, the dairy company, they sponsored this big ice cream house so they had this massive Matterhorn Sundae that looks really freaking delicious. Mmm! What a lovely dessert, what a lovely meal, Judy thank you so much for helping me recreate the foods of what seem to be a very traumatic time in your life. I had a very good time. I bought you a present also. Oh! Everyone should have more candy, here you go. Oh gosh, thank you, wow. You! No, we don’t throw candy at the children we throw it to the children. Hang on, you! I can’t throw. That’s very sweet Judy. I can’t throw very good. The kids are having a great time. Because of my arthritis. This is a present for you, it’s my favorite snack. Oh thank you so much, just an inconspicuous apple, huh? Yes, I like to watch you eat it. Why? Everyone has their thing. I hear that kink shaming isn’t allowed anymore. Maybe you should take a cue from the children. Apple tastes a little funny. Yeah. Kinda bitter. It’s a special apple. Why do I feel so funny, Miss? Oh no, that was for me. Lord, why won’t you take me? I got a touch of the vapous. It’s just got a little bit. I’m dying, hold me Judy. Thank you so much for stopping by The Mythical Kitchen. We got new episodes for you every week. Oh no, we got new episodes of my podcast, A Hotdog is a Sandwich, every Wednesday, wherever you get your podcasts. For a big man, you have very small hands. I really do though. We’ve got new episodes of our podcast, I already said that. Hit us up on Instagram at Mythical Kitchen with pictures of your mythical dishes under #DreamsBecomeFood, we’ll see y’all next time. Did they get this was a poison apple, ’cause Snow White, that was the bit. Josh, there’s chili in your hair. There’s chili in my hair? Oh no ! Oh no! Get your head out of the chili, boy! Emily, bathe me. Oh yeah. Get the chili out! Get as messy as you want in your own kitchen when you have The Mythical Kitchen towels, available now at Mythical.com.