Disneyland is putting restrictions on the popular vacation item, as demand rises
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Disneyland Resort guests looking to save on favorite holiday meals will have to pay just a few per customer this year, or get creative like others did.
The Mickey Mouse-shaped gingerbread cookies currently sell for $7.49 each, but are limited to “each of five people, per serving,” according to the online menus of the park’s restaurants, including Jolly Holiday Bakery Cafe and Market House.
“It’s real Christmas in a cookie,” parker Tiffany Calderon told SFGATE. She said her family visits Disneyland three times a year, making it their goal to collect 20 Mickey gingerbread cookies during the holidays to freeze at home and eat throughout the year. “It feels like home,” he added. “Just cuddling on the couch, watching Christmas movies, taking out a gingerbread cookie and just – little bites, make it last longer. Make it linger.”
This year, however, Disneyland is trying to prevent hoarding — not only by setting a limit on how much people can buy at one time, but also by suspending cell phone sales from time to time to prevent items from being sold.
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A general view of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland, decorated for the holidays on December 03, 2022 in Anaheim, California. (Photos by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC/Getty Images)
Some guests, however, wander around the park to place orders for the mouse-shaped cookies at the many stalls — and even over to the Grand Californian Hotel, where they sell them for $10 a pop.
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A Poison Apple Macaron at the Jolly Holiday Bakery Cafe during Halloween at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, CA, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. The cafe is known for its holiday treats, including Mickey Gingerbread. (Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Many say that they just don’t like the taste of this dish, noting that it has a sympathetic value.
“This is how Christmas started,” Jennifer Walker told SFGATE, recalling how she and her parents “would do Holiday Time on the Disneyland Tour, and they would give out that cookie.”
Walker said she collected 24 cookies during her visit to the “Happiest Place on Earth,” 35 in total this year. But not all of them are his.
“One of them went to my parents’ grave,” he told SFGATE. “So mom still gets us her Mickey bread.”
Teenage girls bake Christmas cookies in the oven. (GMVozd via Getty Images / Getty Images)
He passed on others as gifts for work.
“It turned out that my partner had the same culture as his mother,” Walker said. “Christmas started when they got their Mickey bread. So when I put it on her table, she literally cried because she wasn’t going to make it this year. She’s like, ‘Oh my God, you’re going to help. keep the Christmas tradition going.’
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Gingerbread is big business at the Disney parks, and not just in an edible way. There’s plenty of merchandise featuring holiday foods, such as clothing and gingerbread house popcorn buckets, which can also be found nationwide at Walt Disney World in Orlando, for the lucky ones.
Disneyland did not immediately respond to an inquiry by Fox Business.
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