Unhealthy Eating at Disneyland

This post will chronicle what D & I ate at Disneyland last Sat. Looking back, it seems pretty gross, but it was just one day, and we walked A LOT. (We spent a total of 15.5 hours on the Disney grounds). Anyways, our mid-morning snack was the Dole Pineapple Whip:

You can find this treat by the Tiki Room. It was $2.75 and I thought it was pretty tasty. It's pineapple soft serve! The only problem is that they swirl it all around the outside of the cup so it looks like a lot, but there was nothing in the middle! The floats looked good too...it's made with pineapple juice and the whip on top, but those were $4.50 :(

I made reservations the previous Monday for the Blue Bayou. Our reservations were for the first seating, at 11:30 a.m. and they were already booked up for the rest of the day! This is the restaurant inside of the Pirates of the Carribean, in case you didn't know. When we got there I asked the hostess if we could be seated by the water, and she assured us, "Oh, you'll get water." The boats float past the restaurant at the beginning of the ride. One rider shouted "How do you like your dinner?" It's dark inside, so it always seems like night, I guess. D also pointed out that in the South, they call lunch "dinner" and dinner "supper" so technically they were using the correct terminology. Anyways, we split an order of the vegetable gumbo and the famed Monte Cristo sandwich, which comes with a side of pasta salad. They also serve rolls, and if you order a soda, it is bottomless...the servers don't let it go past being 3/4 full! This was more than enough food for us. D rated the gumbo a "9" and the sandwich a "6".

The Monte Cristo is a turkey, ham and swiss sandwich that is dipped in batter, fried, sprinkled with powdered sugar and served with blackberry jam (more like a sauce). It was a bit heavy for my liking, but it's one of those things that I had to check off my list.

For an afternoon snack, D bought a Mickey shaped ice cream bar, which I did not approve of. I'm so mean sometimes.


For dinner we went to Bengal BBQ near the Indiana Jones ride. We ordered a chicken kebab, a bacon-wrapped asparagus kebab and tigger tail breadsticks.

The bacon-wrapped asparagus (in the middle) was the best...with a squeeze of lemon, yum! I want to try to make that at home. The chicken and breadsticks were only alright.

Post-dinner we shared a corn dog from the truck near Carnation Plaza. Oh yeah, and we also shared a cherry lemonade while waiting for the fireworks. Yay for theme park food.