Celebrate National Something on a Stick Day at Disney

This doesn’t sound like a real thing, right? National Something on a Stick Day? Well, I saw it on the Internet, so it must be true. Thursday is the Day, and Disney World is the perfect place to celebrate. Or whatever it is you do with a day like this.

© Mary Liebman

Disney has an impressive menu of food on sticks, and we’re not even talking about those ginormous turkey legs.

Knock yourself out with:

Caramel apples: Disney is the master of the caramel or chocolate apple, starting with Mickey and Minnie with their marshmallow ears. Its Mike Wazowski apple is a thing of potentially radioactive beauty. Pretty much every character and holiday gets enshrined in an apple.

Other fruit: At Karamell-Küche in Epcot’s Germany pavilion, you’ll find one of the more unusual options: chocolate and caramel-covered grapes on a stick. I admit, they’re a tough sell when you see them sitting next to all the other amazing caramel-coated wonders — including my personal favorite, dark-chocolate-dipped pineapple spears. Yes, they’re on sticks too. You also can get a fruit skewer without the chocolate.


Tigger tails: Another classic, the Tigger tail is a marshmallow shish kebab covered in orange chocolate with dark chocolate stripes. Fun, but you have to be a marshmallow fan.


Cake pops: Never accuse Disney of letting a trend pass them by, including the cake pop trend. And why not, when all you need to make a Mickey is a round cake and a couple of marshmallows? (Again with the marshmallows!)

Any of the above are available at the Candy Cauldron or Goofy’s Candy Co. at Downtown Disney. You also can find an impressive selection at the new Big Top Souvenirs in the Magic Kingdom’s Storybook Circus section.

The Mickey bar: Possibly the most ubiquitous food on a stick is the Mickey Premium Ice Cream Bar, which you can find any any of the fleet of ice cream carts around the World. Not the most creative choice, but this list wouldn’t have been complete without it.

If sweet-on-a-stick isn’t your thing, how about savory?


Corn dogs: The best corn dog experience is at Disneyland, but you can find a pale imitation at a cart in Frontierland at the Magic Kingdom. Or you can take a few toothpicks to Casey’s Corner and skewer a few corn dog nuggets.


Shish kebab: Looking for a sit-down skewer? Restaurant Marrakesh at Epcot’s Morocco pavilion has a beef tenderloin shish kebab. You can even make this one yourself: AllEars posted the recipe.

A meal on a stick: At Downtown Disney’s Paradiso 37, you can put together a whole meal on skewers: an appetizer of chorizo and beef skewers paired with Central American crazy corn (fire-roasted corn on the cob — on a stick, of course — topped with a spicy yellow pepper sauce and A LOT of cheese).

Hey, who says Something on a Stick has to be food? How about a classic ride that amounts to Something on a Stick, like Dumbo, Aladdin’s Flying Carpets or the Astro Orbiter?

Perhaps if you want to fly at the end of a stick, you’ll do it before the corn dogs and Tigger tails.