5 Things To Eat at Disneyland

1. Hickory smoked turkey leg, $4.95. -- Clopin Juice Cart, on the Big Thunder Trail between Frontierland and Fantasyland. This is the park’s best food deal, a smoky, meaty bowling pin perfect for the entire family to gnaw on. Especially while standing in the interminably long line for the Indiana Jones Adventure.

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2. Really sticky sticky bun, $2.95 -- Main Street’s Blue Ribbon Bakery. The great blueberry muffins and freshly baked pastries sold here might just be as good as those at any Westide boutique bakery. The sticky bun is a yeasty pull-apart topped with way too much caramel and loads of crushed pecan. Nothing exceeds like excess.

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3. Peppered turkey sandwich, $8.25 -- Main Street’s Carnation Cafe. I’m told that Japanese tourists complain that this intelligently conceived sandwich is too large to eat in one sitting. It’s a pile of peppery crusted turkey breast layered with Monterey Jack cheese, green-leaf lettuce and fresh sliced tomato inside a seeded harvest pouch smeared with stone ground mustard and a nicely tart cranberry relish.

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4. Mint julep, $2.10 -- Mint Julep Bar, French Market and Blue Bayou in New Orleans Square. This otherworldly, pale green elixir (bourbon-free, natch) would look perfectly at home in a horror film starring Vincent Price, but one sip and you’re hooked. The drink is really a minty lemonade that manages to be light on sugar and wickedly refreshing. It comes in an oddly shaped plastic vessel, garnished with a lime wheel and sprigs of fresh mint.

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5. Bacon-wrapped asparagus skewers, $3.25 -- Adventureland’s Bengal Barbecue. I asked five employees at random where they send friends to eat. Four of them picked Bengal Barbecue. The specialty is skewered meats with flavorful sauces, everything under $4. The Banyan beef skewer has a dose of the park’s spiciest sauce, but bacon asparagus skewers are addictive: properly crisp bacon wrapped around juicy bits of char-grilled asparagus.