The parks are almost down to only one location per park for turkey legs now.
1) Correct.
2) With the spread of "smart eating", Turkey Legs are falling out-of-favor.
3) They are til in demand, but just not as much as in the past.
4) See the Turkey Leg info, below.
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WDW TURKEY LEGS "411":
1) Disney used to sell about 1.5 MILLION turkey legs every year!
2) That is about 7 turkey legs for every man-woman-child in Orlando.
3) Each of these bird legs weighs about 1.5 pounds for about $12 or 1-CS
DDP Credit.
4) They supposedly come from 40-50 pound turkeys!
5) Nutrition, per Lisa Haines, VP Communications, WDW
. . . about a half day's worth of a grown-man's calorie goal (1,092 calories each leg)
. . . about a day's worth of a grown-man's fat goal (54 gr each leg)
. . . about two day's worth of a grown-man's sodium goal (5,283 gr each leg)
6) Recipe
. . . take uber-monstrous one leg
. . . inject copious amounts of salt brine
. . . smoke slowly at 225º for 4 hrs.
7) Available at the below
(all Turkey Legs taste the same, and from the same vendor)
. . . MK - Liberty Square, Tomorrowland Launching Pad, Tortuga Tavern
. . . EP - America Adventure at Fife and Drum Tavern
. . . HS - discontinued at DHS
. . . TL - Surf Doggies
. . . BL - Avalaunch
. . . DS - Smokehouse
NOTE: We really do like the taste of the turkey legs. However, we seldom finish one, so
we save the calories for later. We still get the legs when we have a hankerin'. Additionally,
they do seem to be pretty "stringy".
