Nancy Luna
- The Dole Whip soft-serve cup is an iconic treat made famous by Disneyland and Walt Disney World.
- Disneyland, alone, sells hundreds of thousands of the frozen treats each year.
- Dole Packaged Foods said it is making its Dole Whip treat available nationwide in grocery stores.
It's common for Disney fans to wait in long snaking lines to buy the theme park's famous Dole Whip. The pineapple frozen treat can be found in several locations throughout the Disneyland Resort in California and Walt Disney World in Florida.
But, soon, it will be available to everyday grocery shoppers.
Dole Packaged Foods, the maker of the iconic Dole Whip, announced plans on March 3 to make the frozen treat available in supermarkets nationwide. The tropical dessert will be available in three flavors – pineapple, mango, and strawberry.
Dole did not say which grocery retailers would be getting the frozen products.
Nancy Luna
The Dole Whip is a legacy food item at Disneyland in Anaheim. The Disneyland Resort told the Orange County Register in 2016 that it sold nearly 1 million cups of Dole Whip yearly. The frozen treats are so popular that Disneyland created The Tropical Hideaway in 2018 to address demand. The food stand sells the original treats – Dole Whip and the Dole Whip Float – and several new concoctions, such as the Strawberry Dole Whip Sundae and a Chile-Mango Whip. To help reduce lines, Disneyland also launched mobile order-ahead for the treats in 2019.
Disney officials did not return an immediate request for comment.
Besides Disney parks, the Dole Whip has been sold in a limited number of Southern California ice cream shops over the years, including Joe's Italian Ice in Anaheim. Amazon sells a Dole soft-serve mix online.
Not surprisingly, versions of the soft-serve treat can be found in food shops in Hawaii, according to Yelp. It can also be found at Disney rival Universal Studios.
The treat is so popular that dozens of copycat recipes are online, including a version posted on the website of food celebrity and cookbook author Ree Drummond, aka The Pioneer Woman. It says: "Consider this copycat recipe the happiest treat on earth."