Thanksgiving, Horizon West Style: Where to Gobble Up the Good Stuff
From Turkey Feasts to Italian Favorites, Creative Cocktails and Traditional Pies, Living in Horizon West Makes it Easy to Skip Cooking This Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is about gathering around the table with family and friends, but who says you have to spend three days in the kitchen before? In Horizon West and the surrounding communities, restaurants and shops make it easy to celebrate your way. Sure, there’s plenty of options for turkey and dressing and pumpkin pie, but you might also crave lasagna or garlicky shrimp or prime rib. Maybe you want to drink out of a gravy boat!
There's no shortage of options, so here’s a few – OK, more than a few - places to dine in, order ahead, pick up and bring home that Thanksgiving meal.
Do we even need to say that you will need reservations for almost every one of these? Call if you’re not sure.
Horizon West Area
Simply Capri
At Flamingo Crossings Town Center, Simply Capri may celebrate the coastal cuisine of southern Italy, but it embraces American Thanksgiving too. The Thanksgiving Day three-course, prix fixe menu is available from noon to 10:30 pm.
Starter antipasto options include Caesar salad, potato croquettes with prosciutto cotto and mozzarella, topped grilled ciabatta and stuffed cherrystone clams. As main course, you can pick from a traditional Thanksgiving plate (roast turkey, mashed potatoes, chestnut apple stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce) as well as lasagna al ragu Napoletano (fresh pasta, slow-cooked baby back ribs, Italian sausage, meatballs, Calabro ricotta, béchamel sauce) and pan-seared seabass with roasted carrots, green beans, and lemon-caper sauce.
For dessert, choices are warm apple tart with vanilla gelato, spiced pumpkin custard in a flaky crust, crepes with warm Nutella and macerated strawberry, and lemon sorbet with fresh berries.
Hash House a Go Go
Known for giant servings of “twisted farm food,” Hash House a Go Go in Flamingo Crossings Town Center is cooking up a Thanksgiving Day supper plate until 3 p.m.
For $25.99, your holiday meal includes house-roasted turkey, brown butter sage cornbread stuffing, green bean casserole with crispy onions, garlic mashed potatoes with turkey gravy, orange-kissed cranberry sauce, a buttermilk biscuit with honey butter, and for dessert, pumpkin pie with whipped cream.
Bella Italia
This family-owned ristorante has been open for a decade now in The Shoppes at Windward Cay. For Thanksgiving day, they have two options. You can enjoy the usual Italian menu, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., including gluten-free items and a special traditional American Thanksgiving dinner.
If you’d rather eat at home, Bella Italia is cooking up $250 (plus tax) Thanksgiving catering packages that feed 12-15. That’s a 20- to 25-pound oven-roasted turkey, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, green beans, a dozen garlic rolls, choice of mashed red-skin potatoes or sweet potato casserole, and a whole pumpkin pie. Call 407-347-3277 to order by Nov. 20.
Publix (Multiple Locations)
You can order holiday meal packages through the supermarket’s website for ham or turkey dinners with sides that feed up to 15 people. The last day to order for the Thanksgiving season is Nov. 23. The last day to pick up is Nov. 25. Remember – Thanksgiving Thursday is one of the days that Publix is closed.
For example, the “complete turkey dinner” for 15 ($139.99) includes a fully cooked 16- to 18-pound turkey, five pounds of cornbread dressing, five pounds of mashed potatoes, 32 fluid ounces of cranberry orange relish, 52 fluid ounces of marshmallow delight, and 64 fluid ounces of Publix Deli Homestyle Gravy.
Some turkey dinner options include more Latin-inspired sides such as rice and pigeon peas, sweet plantains with bacon and onions, gravy, cranberry orange relish, and dulce de leche milk infused bar cake. Ham dinner packages come with sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, and marshmallow delight. Other advance order options include shrimp platters, individual sides, cheese platters, charcuterie boxes, desserts, veggie platters, and fruit platters.
Ellie Lou's Brews & BBQ
Built around barbecue traditions from around America, Ellie Lou’s in Flamingo Crossings will be open on Thanksgiving Day until 3 p.m. with the regular menu of pork and brisket, and yes, turkey. But plenty of folks will be stopping in to pick up their pre-ordered Thanksgiving feasts of smoked turkey or ham, traditional sides, and desserts.
The holiday feast package ($198.62) includes a whole house-smoked turkey, and quart sides of green bean casserole, cornbread stuffing, roasted garlic mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, citrus cranberry relish, and a dozen slider rolls. You also pick between gravy or one of Ellie Lou’s regional barbecue sauces. All dinners come cold to reheat at home, but you can request to pick it up hot.
If you don’t need the full meal, you can also order three pounds of unsliced smoked turkey (keeps it moist), three pounds of sliced ham, one side dish, or all of them. You’ve got five desserts available: banana pudding, salted caramel cheesecake, Reece’s peanut butter pie, red velvet cake, and triple chocolate cake. If you don’t want to run over to Ellie Lou’s on Thanksgiving Day, you can also set your order for takeaway on Wednesday, Nov. 25.
Gertrude’s Kitchen (Catering)
If you want a southern soul Thanksgiving meal and you don’t want to cook it yourself, Gertrude’s will drop everything at your house on Wednesday or Thursday, but you must order by Saturday, Nov. 21.
You pick two entrees, three sides, and one dessert. The $225 package feeds up to five and the $450 feeds as many as 10. Entrée choices include smoked turkey with white wine sage sauce, fried turkey, beef short ribs and oxtails, ham, roast chicken, and smoked brisket. Sides? These aren’t all your options, but a few are lobster mac and cheese, cornbread dressing, garlic mashed potatoes, dirty rice, greens, and potato salad. For dessert, you pick from sweet potato pie, sweet potato cheesecake pie, peach cobbler bread pudding, red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting, and more.
Cracker Barrel
The Thanksgiving Heat & Serve meals from Cracker Barrel are back for 2026, but first, a note about dining-in on Thursday at the southern-themed chain. There will be a traditional Thanksgiving dinner plate available starting at 11 a.m. as well as the Country Fried Turkey Sandwich that’s around through at least Christmas with a crispy turkey tenderloin, gravy and cranberry relish on a toasted bun.
Now, if you want to order a tableful of food to serve at home, Cracker Barrel has that too, Nov. 21 - 29. You can order and pick up with as little as 12-hour notice required and you should serve within 72 hours after picking up. The Thanksgiving Heat & Serve Turkey Feast feeds 8-10 and includes two roast turkey breasts, sweet potato casserole, green beans, mashed potatoes, cornbread dressing, gravy, cranberry relish, sweet rolls, and both pumpkin pie and pecan pie. Other smaller packages are available as well as meal bundles built around ham or prime rib. You can also order and pick up whole desserts, including pumpkin pie, cinnamon roll pie, and double chocolate fudge Coca-Cola cake.
Kelly’s Homemade Ice Cream
If you want an ice cream pie from Kelly’s for your Thanksgiving table, you better hurry! The order deadline is November 14 to reserve your caramel apple strudel ice cream pie or pumpkin roll ice cream pie.
They’re $24, feed 8-10, and once you order, you can pick up at the Bridgewater Crossings Kelly’s or other locations around greater Orlando between Nov. 20-25.
Paris Baguette
Maybe you cook your own turkey and stuffing, but want to farm out the responsibility of dessert? Hamlin’s branch of the bakery chain will be open on Thanksgiving Day, but you’d be smart – in fact, you’re encouraged – to order ahead and lock in that sweet treat. Four seasonal desserts are available through November 29: caramel apple streusel trifle, pumpkin spice layer cake, carrot cake with cream cheese icing, and caramel apple streusel cheesecake.
Walt Disney World
Raglan Road
The Disney Springs Irish pub and restaurant will add an American-style Thanksgiving dinner to the menu for one day only. That’s butter-and-herb roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, duck fat roasties, honey-glazed carrots, bacon-braised Brussels sprouts, sausage meat stuffing, red wine jus and cranberry. The special meal is $46.50 for adults and $22.50 for children. Live Irish music and dancers begin at 4:30 pm and continues through the night.
Morimoto Asia
The pan-Asian collaboration with Japanese Master Chef (and “Iron Chef”) Masaharu Morimoto will add one menu item for Thanksgiving Thursday. The Peking Turkey Dinner ($50 for adults and $27 for kids) includes turkey with crispy skin in the style of Peking duck, roasted pork fried rice “stuffing,” Japanese-style candied yams, cranberry-lychee chutney, and Szechuan peppercorn gravy.
The Edison
The industrial gothic bar and restaurant at Disney Springs will have a traditional Thanksgiving style dinner on the menu, but what caught our attention is a drink available all November that comes in a gravy boat! The cocktail, called a Holiday Gravy Boat ($19), is made with cranberry-infused Wild Turkey 101 bourbon, red wine, fig, and sherry with a hint of citrus and warming spices. Before you ask … no, you don’t get to keep the gravy boat!
Chef Art Smith's Homecomin'
Having been the personal chef for Oprah Winfrey and two Florida governors, Art Smith’s cuisine is focused on the American South. His Disney Springs restaurant will be open on Thanksgiving Thursday, but let’s talk about the dinner for four you can pick up for home dining on Tuesday and Wednesday. For $223.65 (tax included), you get smoked white-meat turkey with gravy (white meat only), cornbread stuffing recipe with andouille sausage, homemade cranberry sauce, whipped mashed potatoes, southern green beans, cheddar cheese drop biscuits With fig jam, and the restaurant’s famous hummingbird cake.
House of Blues
The music venue and restaurant at Disney Springs is prepping for a Thanksgiving Thursday with a little Louisiana flavor, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. In addition to the usual menu, the dine-in special includes herb-roasted turkey with gravy, andouille corn pudding, candied yams, garlic mashed potatoes, green beans and fresh cranberry sauce. The price is $37 for adults and $16 for kids, tax and tip not included. Desserts available for purchase include a pumpkin pie milkshake, bread pudding, House of Chocolate cake, beignets, and Key lime pie.
Rainforest Café
If you’d like your turkey day meal amid waterfalls and animatronic jungle animals, this is the place. Both the Disney Springs and Disney’s Animal Kingdom (outside the gate) locations will have a Thanksgiving dinner of roast turkey and gravy, stuffing, green beans with mushrooms and onions, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. That’s $28.99 for adults and $18.99 for kids.
T-Rex Café
What about dining among the dinosaurs? The creatures are simulated, but the Disney Springs Thanksgiving meal is real. For $30.99, or $18.99 for kids, you get roast turkey, gravy, stuffing, green beans and mushrooms, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. That price is before tip and tax.
Jaleo by José Andrés
From Chef Jose Andres, the man behind World Central Kitchen, Jaleo is putting a Spanish spin on Thanksgiving dining. Extra seasonal tapas and menu items include Thanksgiving turkey croquetas with cranberry aioli, braised lamb neck with butternut squash and green beans, Basque-style cheesecake with pumpkin, and a Thanksgiving plate of sliced turkey, gravy, butternut squash puree and cranberry sauce.
If everyone at your table is game (excluding kids up to nine), you can also go for the Thanksgiving Endless Tapas Experience at $100 a person. You all have a 90-minute table time limit and last call is 15 minutes before the end of your visit.
Summer House on the Lake
On Disney Springs’ West Side, Summer House is supplementing its usual California-inspired cuisine with a three-course prix fixe Thanksgiving Thursday meal, 11 a.m. – 11 p.m. For a starter, you can have a harvest salad (kale and celery, pecans, shaved apple, pecorino and lemon vinaigrette) or roasted honeynut squash soup with toasted pepitas and lemon yogurt.
Your entrée is either roast turkey dinner (mashed potatoes, caramelized Brussels sprouts, stuffing and zinfandel gravy) or maple-glazed Faroe Island salmon (mashed potatoes, caramelized Brussels sprouts, chardonnay butter). For dessert, either pumpkin chiffon pie with caramel sauce or chocolate cake with whipped cream. The Thanksgiving prix fixe menu is $69.95 per adult, $14.95 per child.
The Boathouse
Sitting on Lake Buena Vista at Disney Springs, The Boathouse specializes in fresh seafood, but just like many places, will make turkey on option for Thanksgiving Thursday. The Thanksgiving dinner including roasted turkey breast, gravy, whipped potatoes, stuffing, green beans and cranberry sauce. That’s $35 for adults and $15 for kids before tax and tip.
STK Orlando
If you want steak for Thanksgiving, STK at Disney Springs is ready for you. If you want turkey and all the trimmings, they’re ready for you too. The Thanksgiving dinner meal includes free-range roast turkey, sage cornbread stuffing, shallot and thyme confit thighs, gravy, cranberry orange chutney, sautéed green beans with crispy shallots, maple baked sweet potato, and Yukon Gold mashed potatoes with Parmesan crust. For dessert, you might add spiced pumpkin pie with candied ginger cream and crunchy caramel honeycomb.
Available for both adults and kids, if you feel like Thanksgiving on some other day, the feast plate is available Thursday, Nov. 12 to Sunday, Nov. 29.
Paddlefish
Known as the Disney Springs restaurant that’s shaped like a paddlewheel boat and a menu that includes seafood boils, Paddlefish will also have a Thanksgiving turkey dinner for one day only with herb-roasted turkey breast, andouille cornbread stuffing, whipped potatoes, green beans, cranberry relish, and pan gravy.
Terralina Crafted Italian
Whether you want lasagna and pizza or turkey and the sides, Terralina at Disney Springs has got you for Thanksgiving Day. One-day menu additions include an apple pie martini (caramel vodka, allspice dram, apple cider, and cream), a traditional turkey feast (rosemary roasted turkey, bacon and apple stuffing, mascarpone whipped potatoes, roast asparagus, sage and thyme gravy, and cranberry sauce), and a pumpkin cheesecake with brown butter sage caramel.
City Works Eatery & Pourhouse
A restaurant with a sports bar vibe with dozens of TVs and dozens of beers on tap, City Works will add a traditional dinner for Turkey Day Thursday. The herb-roasted turkey ($34.95) includes carved turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, roasted Brussels sprouts with bacon lardons, corn casserole and gravy. The 10-and-under version ($19.95) is turkey, mash, stuffing, corn casserole, and gravy. For the imbibers, there’s a cranberry mojito (Bacardi Limón, cranberry juice, lime, mint, dried cranberries, simple syrup and soda) and a burnt orange old fashioned (Devils River Rye, Cointreau, charred syrup and orange bitters).
NeARBY RESORTS
Four Flamingos
How about Thanksgiving brunch? Inside the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, the Michelin-recommended restaurant from celebrity chef Richard Blais will serve the traditional brunch menu (not a buffet) from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., as well as a $45 Thanksgiving plate with Florida influences. That’s Key lime mojo turkey, sofrito mashed potatoes, mojo gravy, garlic green beans, pork belly and sage stuffing, and ginger cranberry jam.
Other extra options include a side of Peruvian sweet purple potato and coconut marshmallow casserole ($16), and seasonal desserts including pumpkin spice pie, salted caramel pecan cake, and apple pie tartlets.
If you’ll need to unwind after a day of Black Friday shopping, Four Flamingos has that covered too. From 4 – 5 p.m. on Nov. 27, the restaurant’s bartenders will host a hands-on cocktail experience with two fall-inspired cocktails with cocktail-making tips and techniques. The class is $65 and you must be 21 or older to participate.
Twin View
Located inside Evermore Resort, Twin View offers views of both the Grand Cypress Golf Course and Evermore Bay with a menu that highlights Florida flavors. A family-style Thanksgiving Thursday supper is being served noon to 8 p.m. for $115 per adult or $35 for children under 12.
The meal starts with a table spread of buttermilk biscuits, Parker House rolls, pimento spread, sea salt cane syrup butter, heirloom apple jam, local honey, farmers cheese, stuffed dates, deviled eggs, pickles and praline pecans. Then a roasted harvest salad with citrus and grilled stone fruit spread, shaved fennel, walnuts and mint from the garden. Your main is a choice of cider-brined Lake Meadow Naturals roast turkey or heritage breed ham with sides including dressing, redskin garlic mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, grilled Zellwood sweet corn, sorghum sweet potatoes and green beans.
The dessert trolley rolls to the table with bourbon pecan pie, coconut cream pie, pumpkin cheesecake, Shirley’s fudgee bites, warm seasonal fruit cobbler and vanilla custard ice cream.
If you’re staying at Evermore, there’s also the option of having a Thanksgiving menu for eight delivered to the rooms or suite for $375.
The Grove Resort & Water Park
The family-friendly, all-suite resort is cooking up Thanksgiving dinner at the Valencia restaurant, 3 – 10 p.m. The family-style Thanksgiving meal includes a harvest salad, roasted turkey and gravy, honey-spiced glazed ham, grilled salmon with tomato-caper beurre blanc, maple bacon Brussels sprouts, and chorizo cornbread stuffing at $55 for adults and $25 for children. If you’re staying at the resort, you can also have the holiday meal for four brought to your suite for $165.
Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort
The AAA Five Diamond resort has two restaurants doing something special for Thanksgiving Thursday as well as an option just for folks staying at the resort.
Ravello, Four Season’s Italian restaurant, will celebrate with a buffet meal, 1 – 8 p.m., including raw bar, antipasti and autumn greens, and a roast turkey carving station with gravy, cornbread sausage stuffing and cranberry relish. For the beef folks, the buffet also includes fire-roasted New York striploin with house made rub and chianti sauce. Dessert? You’ve got dessert and gelato stations with seasonal pies and more. The price is $170 for adults and $58 for children.
Plancha’s usual menu leans Latin-American. For Thanksgiving, the buffet runs noon – 7 p.m., with raw bar, seasonal soups and salads, carving station with traditional roast turkey and all the fixings … plus Brazilian-style picanha, chimichurri, farofa and plantains. The dessert bar includes holiday pies and other sweets. The meal will run you $150 for adults and $58 for children.
If you’re checking into the Four Seasons for the day, you’ve got the option of an in-room Thanksgiving celebration, starting at 1 p.m. Delivered to your room or suite, you get roast turkey, cornbread sausage stuffing, buttermilk mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes with cinnamon maple glaze, and green bean casserole with cream of mushroom sauce, crispy onions and fontina cheese. That’s $59 per guest.
Those seeking a taste of Four Seasons in the comfort of their own home can enjoy Thanksgiving to-go. $440 for up to five people; $650 for up to eight people. Also, you can bring home a signature taste of the season with a pie prepared by Executive Pastry Chef Rabii Saber. From Traditional Pumpkin and Bourbon Pecan to Triple Chocolate and Lemon Meringue, each handcrafted pie is designed to make your celebrations even more memorable. Pre-order now with pick up available: November 14th-26th with 48h advanced notice
Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin
Recognizable by the 27-story pyramid designed by architect Michael Graves, the Swan and Dolphin is hosting one dedicated buffet for Thanksgiving and several other restaurants are adding a special item or two.
Garden Grove will have a Thanksgiving buffet, $39.99 for adults and $19.99 for children 3-9. Options include salads and soups, turkey and ham carving stations, and other selections including kale and roast sweet potato with feta and maple-Dijon vinaigrette, seared grouper, and the traditional Thanksgiving side dishes. The “Little Sprouts” table fort kids also includes made-to-order Mickey waffles, mac and cheese, mini corn dogs, tater Tots, PB&J, and more. For dessert, you can graze through sweet potato cheesecake (gluten-free), pear panna cotta (vegan), maple pecan tart, pumpkin tart bar, chocolates, and more.
Four more Swan and Dolphin restaurants are adding turkey entrees for one day only.
Bourbon Steak steakhouse has a turkey roulade (rolled roast turkey with potato puree, green bean almondine, stuffing croquettes and cranberry-apricot agrodolce. There are also a turkey pot pie and a roast pumpkin cheesecake with spiced maple whip. Mediterranean
Amare will have a turkey breast Milanese with sweet potato puree, green beans, brown butter turkey jus and cranberry.
Il Mulino New York Trattoria will serve turkey ballotine, a rolled bundle with porcini, prosciutto, chestnut, roast pumpkin, confit turkey leg croquette, potato puree, fig-apple mostarda, and Marsala jus.
Todd English’s Bluezoo will feature a turkey roulade with brown butter stuffing, chestnut puree, tasso ham, wild chanterelle Mushrooms, tarragon gremolata, and Madeira sauce.
JW Marriott Orlando Bonnet Creek Resort & Spa
Sitting near Disney Springs but inside the Bonnet Creek enclave, several of the resort restaurants have Thanksgiving plans.
From 12:30 - 8:00 p.m. (last seating at 6:30), UnReserved Food Bazaar starts the buffet meal with a “welcome bite” of a wild mushroom and gruyere tartlet. From there, you’ve turkey, ham, and prime rib as well as a seafood raw bar, sushi, cheese and charcuterie, salads, breads, pasta station, rosemary crusted lamb lollipops, and all the Thanksgiving side dishes. Among the 12+ desserts are apple pie, pumpkin cheesecake, Biscoff cake and apple crumble parfait. You also go home with pumpkin bread. The meal is $148 per adult and $58 for kids 4-12. You can also plus up your meal with an optional selection of curated wines and seasonal pours.
Sear + Sea Woodfire Grill has a Thanksgiving meal built just for couples ($175) called Harvest by Fire. Starting with both turkey roulade and mustard-roasted prime rib, the two also get family-style roasted root vegetables, corn elotes, foie gras and brioche stuffing, turkey gravy, and cognac jus. Dessert is a pumpkin cheesecake with spiced cookie crust, pecan gelato, and vanilla yogurt cream. If you don’t want to share, ala carte options include sweet corn velouté, turkey roulade (heritage black turkey, sautéed asparagus with caramelized onion, mashed potatoes with house-made gravy, brioche brown butter stuffing, and cranberry jelly. That pumpkin cheese is available for one as well.
Waldorf Astoria Orlando
Also in Bonnet Creek and featuring an 18-hole golf course designed by Rees Jones, The Waldorf has four Thanksgiving options. Oscar’s is usually a breakfast spot but will also have a Thanksgiving dinner buffet for the evening, 4 – 9 p.m. Entrees include turkey, ham, prime rib and Loch Duarte salmon. You’ve also got shrimp cocktail, charcuterie, salad bar, pasta station, the traditional sides and holiday desserts. Cost is $80 for adults and $40 for children.
Bull & Bear is doing a prix fixe meal, 6 – 10 p.m., with pumpkin gazpacho, root fall salad, range-free turkey with gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce, sweet potato with marshmallow gratin and green beans almandine. Dessert will be sweet potato pie with salted caramelized pecan & Jack Daniel’s gelato. The meal is $120 per adult or $60 per child 12 and younger.
La Luce will plus up the regular ala carte menu with some Thanksgiving-themed items, 6 – 10 p.m. Look for butternut squash soup with crispy prosciutto, ravioli verde (ricotta and pumpkin puree, spinach and sage brown butter sauce), risotto alla Milanese with braised ossobuco and saffron, and sweet potato pie with that pecan and whiskey gelato.
And at Harvest Bistro, there’s also a buffet meal, 3 – 9 p.m., $68 for adults and $38 for children. You’ve got carving stations with Carolina turkey, ham, and herb-crusted strip loin – as well as sushi rolls and shrimp, charcuterie, salad bar, sides, and desserts.
Wyndham Grand Orlando Resort Bonnet Creek
Deep Blu Seafood & Grille will offer a Thanksgiving prix fixe alongside the regular menu of crab-crusted grouper and grilled swordfish. The dinner special includes harvest squash soup or crab cake, apple cider-brined turkey, sage gravy, mashed potatoes, wild mushroom dressing and seasonal vegetables with holiday pie for dessert. That’s $65 before tax and tip.
Wyndham Grand’s Tesoro Cove is known as a breakfast spot, but will host a Thanksgiving buffet, 2 – 7 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day night. That’s salad bar, cheese and fruit, turkey and ham carving stations, Parmesan Crusted Salmon, the traditional sides and desserts. The kid’s buffet also includes macaroni and cheese, chicken tenders, potato “tots,” and chocolate chip cookies. Prices are $69 for adults and $29 for kids 3 – 9. That’s before 18% service charge and tax.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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