400lbs Raw Duck Meat Left to Rot at Epcot After Thanksgiving “Miscalculation”

Four-hundred pounds of raw duck meat is left rotting in the sun in an Epcot backlot, sources tell us today.

Earlier this week, Epcot’s Garden Grill Restaurant announced that, as a part of their annual Thanksgiving duck feast, they would be serving fan-favorite Daffy Duck in place of the usual Disney-raised duck.

“We’re always looking for new ways to bring an immersive dining experience to Disney guests,” said Gregg Hannon, Culinary Director at Epcot. “Whether we’re bringing guests up an elevator to space at Space 220, or delighting diners with cuisine from around the world at our year-round festivals, pushing the limits of immersion in dining is our everyday mission. This year, I fear, we’ve gone too far.”

Too far, indeed. In a normal year, The Garden Grill, where you can find dishes made from ingredients grown in the greenhouses featured a floor below on Living with the Land, serves up the traditional Thanksgiving Duck Diner with ducks raised by Disney agriculturalists – a chance for a one-of-a-kind farm-to-table dining experience.

This year, instead, they served just one duck: Daffy.

“The meat from Daffy alone was enough to serve upwards of 500 guests – almost the exact amount we need each year, with just a few pounds to spare,” Hannon said. “We thought the chance to actually consume the meat of a classic cartoon character would draw massive crowds. However we grossly miscalculated the common Disney guest’s desire to eat the flesh of a character they held so dear, albeit a rival duck.”

The dinner didn’t go off without some fanfare, however. More adventurous diners lined up at the chance to eat Daffy, and Hannon tells us they served about 17 people this year. What’s going to come of the massive pile of meat and jet-black feathers currently sitting in the sun behind Epcot is, as of press time, a mystery. We have received word from a source, though we are unable to confirm, that Disney Imagineers are already hard at work trying to reconstruct the meat into the same Daffy we’ve always known and loved, sans a few servings.

We reached out to Bob Chapek’s office for a statement on this story. They have not responded.

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