After being temporarily thwarted by the pandemic, Marvel's much-anticipated Avengers Campus
will celebrate its opening at Disneyland on June 4th 2021. The superhero-centric section
of the amusement park will boast rides themed around "Spider-Man" and "Guardians of the
Galaxy." It's even a casual comics enthusiast's dream, but one feature of the Avengers Campus
is arguably drawing just as much attention, if not more, than the sleek and exciting rides:
a sandwich with a $100 price tag.
Just one day at Disneyland is already an expensive excursion. In 2021, ticket prices range from
$114 to $154 for adults and are not too much cheaper for kids — and that's before tallying
up the day's other necessities, like food, Mickey Ears, and other trinkets you’ll find
when you exit the rides. Traveling Mom advises visitors to budget $12 to $18 per person — per
meal — at quick-service eateries in the park, of which there are 78, according to
Disneyland's website. You'd need to up that to about $18 to $25 at full-service restaurants,
of which there are about 33, and that doesn't include the park's "character dining," which
is more expensive in exchange for the experience of eating among your favorite Disney personalities.
Even for a pricey destination, however, a $100 sandwich is something! What could possibly
be going on between those two slices of bread to warrant a triple-digit price, and is it
worth the splurge?
As Food & Wine points out, the splashy $100 cost for this sandwich at Disneyland doesn't
have much mystery behind it: It's simply a giant sandwich. It serves six to eight people,
which actually flips it back into being a not-so-indulgent buy for the whole family
during a park visit. That $100 breaks down to about $12.50 to $16.50 per person depending
on how many people split it.
The infamous sandwich is essentially a fancy party sub-turned-panini. It comes with salami,
rosemary ham, provolone, and sun-dried tomato spread. It comes with
marinara dipping sauce and an arugula salad. It's sort of like a Cuban sandwich with its
whole two-meats-plus-cheese vibe. It's also technically $99.99, according to The Disney
Food Blog, so stop shaming it with that extra penny tacked on.
The reason for its giant-size is that this family-sized panini is being served at the
Pym Test Kitchen, a restaurant themed for the 2018 Marvel flick "Ant-Man and the Wasp."
The menu plays with "Pym particles," the secret to Ant-Man's ability to shrink as well as
the technology to make things huge. There are other clever Pym particle-inspired dishes,
like a monstrous meatball on an enormous spoon, and a Caesar salad with one colossal crouton.
Disneyland has of course planned other eateries for its Avengers Campus that will be familiar
to fans of the movies and comics.
“You ever tried Shawarma?” Well, now you can! There will be a Shawarma
Palace, and a bunch of other places that reference the MCU along the way.
As intriguing as Shawarma sounds, the $100 Pym-ini sandwich has made the Ant-Man-themed
Pym Test Kitchen the main attraction when it comes to eating on the Avengers Campus.
After all, this dish doesn't fall too far behind the Quintessential Grilled Cheese from
New York's Serendipity 3, which comes in at $214 and is made with just the most ridiculous
things ever. It's also served with a South African lobster bisque as a dipping sauce
because, well, who knows! That sandwich holds the Guinness World Record for the priciest
in the world.
The family-friendly Pym-ini is indeed one of Disneyland's most expensive dishes - but
not the top dish. For an additional $38.01, the $138 Porterhouse for Two at Disneyland
Hotel's Steakhouse 55 is the priciest thing you can find around those parts.
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