So today, Marketplace held a themed dinner about Disney. Before going in, I was definitely curious to see how they would incorporate Disney into the food they were making. All of their other themed dinners, Thanksgiving dinner, Midnight Breakfast, etc., it was very easy to know what was expected of the dinner, but today I had no idea. After going, I felt that food was very delicious, especially the crab legs, and there were individuals who dressed up as Buzz Lightyear, Woody, Micky, and Minnie. Marketplace using a Disney theme to motivate students to try illustrates the popular appeal of Disney to many individuals. So many students were taking pictures with the individuals who had dressed up and the marketplace staff gave us stickers from Finding Nemo. There were also several cardboard cutouts of different Disney princesses like Jasmine and Cinderella. However, other than these decoration aspects the Disney theme was really not felt. I was kind of disappointed that they did not make the typical food you would find only in a Disneyland park such as churros. I felt other than trying to make food to certain characters, if the brought the food ideas from the theme parks, I felt the whole Disney theme would really be unified.
Other than the Disney dinner today, I definitely saw a lot of Buzzed quizzes about Disney. I am pretty sure I took one quiz per day. One of them being what Frozen song defines you, which was of course "Let it Go". I also saw some news articles about Disney. Elizabeth Kaltman, the former PR at Walt Disney had passed away. I have a Yahoo email so I occasionally brush through the news to see if anything interesting had happened, and this article was the very first one that popped up at Yahoo. Because so many individuals adore Disney and many individuals rather hear news about Entertainment rather than what is happening around the world, sites like Yahoo try to make these types of articles the first ones individuals see when entering their website. Disney has taken a huge presence in everyone's lives, that Disney items, news, and information are found everywhere on websites and in stores. To not have some form of Disney, even if it is a small part, involved in your store, then it would probably cause more harm than good.
Until now I have never realized how integrated Disney is into our lives. On Facebook, we see buzzed quizzes about Disney all the time, stores always have Disney items in them, websites somehow have a mention of something relating to Disney in them. Disney has invaded into everyone's lives that we cannot really live a part from it. Disney has become the norm in the culture and to take it away, is taking away a part of our identity.
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