Regarding the Market House pickles...
They've had them on the menu since as long as I can remember. I think they come individually wrapped now, but back when I was a kid (in the 1980s), they fished them out of a big wooden barrell with tongs. They were the biggest pickles I ever saw at the time, and unlike some that taste more like cucumber, the Market House pickles were very briny and extremely sour.
We went to
Disneyland about twice a year, and for whatever reason around my early teens, I just HAD to get a pickle at the Market House as the last thing I did before we left the park and began the long drive home. (We lived up the coast, about three hours north of Los Angeles.) Seriously, I felt about these pickles the way some people feel about Dole Whips. No visit to Disneyland was complete without one, as far as I was concerned.
I remember that usually somewhere around Thousand Oaks I would start to feel really sick from gnawing on this giant sour pickle for the past half hour, and I can't remember if I ever really made it all the way through one. Still, that did not dissuade me from doing the exact same thing on the next visit.
While I still enjoy a nice tangy pickle, it's been many many years since I've felt the urge to get one at Disneyland. However, it's nice to know that this link to my childhood memories is still on offer at the Market House.
-- Chris