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Orlando Opinions – #33 – Hop On TopTop HotPot

March 31, 2018 By Chris

Orlando Opinions 33 Transcript

Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong’o snuck into Orlando last week to see her brother perform at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre in its production of Twelfth Night. She’s famous. He’s not.

We told you on Episode 31 the City could get its very own apple orchard if the City of Orlando Parks & Rec department if they won a $20,000 grant from the “Meet Me at the Park” Earth Month campaign. They won! Now here’s the rub. The orchard is one of the three options the city had to present to get the grant. Now it’s up to locals to vote for the orchard so it gets built and not the other two choices. To vote, text PARKS to 31279 and choose the orchard! Voting ends April 30th. Continue Reading …

Orlando Opinions – #32 – White People in Parramore

March 24, 2018 By Chris

KFC’s new Waffle Double Down is made from two delicious all-chicken fillets sandwiched around a delectable Belgian waffle and drizzled in a uniquely Canadian maple aioli sauce (CNW Group/KFC Canada)

TRANSCRIPT: Rollins College has a self-guided campus tour highlighting memorabilia from Mister Rogers aka Fred Rogers. He went to Rollins when he wasn’t dead. If you wanna see his original shoes and sweater and some historic papers of his but don’t want to feel like a creeper slurking up and down the sidewalks of a college campus, you can take their Virtual Tour which we stole from their website and put on OUR website. Won’t you be my neighbor?

The Waffle Double Down chicken sammich from KFC is launching soon… only in Canada. It comes with maple aioli sauce, two chicken breasts acting as buns, and a belgian waffle in the center acting as food. According to KFC Canada’s chief marketing officer Samantha Redman, this is their answer to customers asking for chicken n’ waffles.How about just offering chicken n waffles? No plans have been announced to bring this beast to the U.S. so local Orlando restaurants: you know what to do! Get it on your menu NOW. I guarantee you’ll have locals who want it. The burger bros will dare each other to eat 4 at once and a gallon of water and die and the Instagram hags will shit their mom jeans counting all the likes their story gets.Continue Reading …

Orlando Opinions – #31 – Orchards, Gardens and Developers, Oh My!

March 17, 2018 By Chris

TRANSCRIPT: Hi it’s Mark Baratelli from The Daily City, Orlando’s number one choice for smooth jazz and R&B. Let’s get to the news!

An urban orchard may be coming to an Orlando Park if the Citys’ Parks and Rec Department wins a $20,000 grant from the National Recreation and Park Association. They had to to send in three ideas for the grant. The orchard is the most creative of the three but all three are pretty great which I have to say because one deals with disabled kids and the other one deals with a neighborhood called Malibu Groves… I mean…Continue Reading …

Orlando Opinions – #30 – Ted Baker Stores & Never Frozen Patties

March 10, 2018 By Chris

TRANSCRIPT: Gyno 1 Contractors submitted a Conditional Use Permit request to allow a drive through for a restaurant as part of the development of a 6-unit, 10,648 sq. ft. retail building across from Lineage Coffee in Mills50 at 1010 and 1022 E Colonial Dr.

The drive thru would be on the east side of the building. On the west side, according to the plans submitted to the City, there will be a covered patio underneath a roof canopy, possibly for outdoor cafe seating. Continue Reading …