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Tigger actually makes some really good points during this breakfast conversation.

There's a bread box full of sliced bread for toasting! (The toaster is to the left of the bread, just outside of the frame). There's also a box just like this of sliced bagels to the right.

This is a small, chilled dish of the Autumn Harvest Grain Salad with Apple Vinaigrette. It's one of the items that's specifically marked as being plant-friendly on the menu cards.

These are buttermilk biscuits. I didn't see any gravy around – which is a traditional breakfast topping for "biscuits and gravy"... but I could imagine pairing these with the Roast Beef Hash or the Creole Shrimp might be quite good.

These buttery looking buttermilk biscuits were on the keep warm line, right next to the pancake strudel.

Here's a look at the pastry and chilled items buffet counters (on the right). The smaller counter on the left is the children's counter. There's a "plate pickup" in between those two stations.

Winnie the Pooh and Piglet are two of the characters you'll meet at the Crystal Palace breakfast.

These cereal dispensers are very cool. One turn of the handle equals one portion of cereal. With so much great, warm food available though – I usually forget to try those out. I've always wanted to put some Fruit Loops on top of a bowl of soft serve ice cream!

Tiger and Eeyore are the other two characters that meet and interact with guest at the Crystal Palace.

Tigger will pretty much eat anything for breakfast – but he does not like honey, acorns, or thistles.

Oh, I do like seeing good, old-fashioned scrambled eggs on any breafast buffet line. The sign says these are cage-free scrambled eggs!

So this is a combination photo, but I really wanted to show the center atrium and some of the paintings and renderings that are hanging on the walls around the atrium. These were all created for a inspiration wall that was used during the design of the Crystal Palace building. Disney simply does not build like this anymore – this is the amount of detail they used to put into interior design and architecture 50 years ago. It's a beautiful, memorable, unique space.

It's a little hard to tell what these are when they're organized like this on the buffet line — but these are silver dollar buttermilk pancakes with blueberries, strudel topping, and vanilla cream drizzle.

A whole keep warm tray of breakfast sausages on the Crystal Palace buffet.

The buffet name plate signs are acutally little paper inserts – which is a good thing, because items do change every now and then.

The butter, jelly and marmalade are kept in these little dishes in the chilled section on the buffet. Those dishes with the red looking sauce to the right, are ketchup and salsa!

These little puff pastries are filled with a sweet apple filling and topped with crunchy sugar!

Here's the section for building a salmon bagel. Naturally, it's in the chilled section of the buffet. There's smoked salmon, red onion, capers, tomatoes and cream cheese. The bagel's are located over by the toaster in one of the center islands (next to the soft serve ice cream machine) – so you can toast an open bagel first, and then bring it over here to build it up!

This is the Traditional Roast Beef Hash item on the Crystal Palace breakfast buffet line.

Hey Piglet! The Piglet topiary is right next to the Tigger topiary in the center atrium at the Crystal Palace.

These little "buffet name plate signs" are located on the counter, directly over the item, which is under the "sneeze guard". It'll all make sense when you see it in person.

The Crispy Fried Chicken on the Crystal Palace breakfast buffet was actually quite good... like a premium chicken finger, but with a good, single piece of chicken inside.

A box of Butter Croissants on the Crystal Palace buffet line.

I found these Mickey Waffles at the Crystal Palace on the slightly lower, children's buffet line. So naturally I took one and denied some poor child the opportunity to eat a Mickey Waffle – because I wanted to eat a Mickey Waffle. (It's okay though, I think they have more somewhere.)

Here's a closer look at the items that are on the children's buffet table. Just in case you were wondering, you don't have to be a child to try some of the items... I mean, Chocolate Chip French Toast sounds pretty good and this might be the only location on the buffet you can get a plain Mickey waffle with maple syrup.

If you're going to try some of the Cheesy Potato Casserole – make sure you get some of that cheesy topping. Otherwise, you're just getting plain Potato Casserole.

There's a buffet table that's noticeably lower than the other tables – that's because it's the children's buffet table! There's Mickey Waffles, Buttermilk Pancakes, Chocolate Chip French Toast, and Scrambled Eggs, all at this one station!

Sometimes, these are called "Churro Mickey Waffles" I call them Cinnamon Sugar Mickey Waffles because I like re-naming things (and they're not really like churros... they're like waffles, covered in cinnamon and sugar. The Crystal Palace is one of the few places you can find them on land. There's a few Disney ships that serve these as well.

All four of the characters that you'll meet at breakfast are also represented in topiary form in the center atrium at the Crystal Palace.

Piglet is Winnie the Pooh's closest friend. He's a little timid around people and his favorite food is acorns... an interesting nugget of information while trying to interact with him at breakfast.