The Hot And Cool History Of Dairy Queen
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Today We at Weird History Food dive deep ino to the beginnings of Dairy Queen - home of the one and only Blizzard! Maybe you have one near you? Maybe you live in a 'Dairy Queen Desert' only to dream you had one nearby. Whatever the case, come with us as we explore how a certain concoction took hold in Southern California and never let go!
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I had a friend in high school that worked at the local Dairy Queen at the end of first shift. She would find out where we’re all hanging out and bring us the extra ice cream. She told us that if the twirl on the top isn’t perfect, they couldn’t sell it so they always had extra dilly bars and ice cream cones sometimes they brought a cake that was done wrong,
We ate that well that summer!
Here in Hermosillo, Mexico we got at least 10 Dairy Queen locations and they all just serve treats, no fast food at all. Whenever I'd visit the States I'd find the concept of these places also havibg chili dogs, burgers, and other hot eats to be kind of exotic.
Their food is not that great, but I find it amazing there being a ton of Dairy Queen’s in Mexico. Especially in Manzanillo Colima where my family originated.
I recommend the chicken strips. The burgers are mediocre, but the chicken strips have great texture and flavor for fast food chicken. Plenty of dipping sauces to choose from too, including white gravy which is a popular choice you won't find in many other places.
Even in America, there are still a lot of so-called "Treat" locations that sell only their soft-serve products and other desserts--no hot food. I grew up near one that's still open today (I'm over 40, to give you a sense of time).
“There’s only one menu item that time after time, keeps you coming back for more:”
Me: the chicken tender basket
“The Blizzard”
Me: oh right
Back in the 1960s & 1970s, Dairy Queen and A&W were my family's favorite places to go. My go-to at Dairy Queen was either their hot fudge sundaes or a Dilly Bar.
Speaking of A&W, they had resturants right? I always wondered what happened to their resturants. When I was younger my parents told me they were super popular and all over the place back then, but I've only ever seen like 2 actual locations in my life lmao
@@Doc-randomplay They did. The one we had didn't have indoor seating. You'd park your car in their parking lot and they would take your order at your car and your food would be delivered on a tray that hung on your car window. It was always a treat.
I remember getting a Dilly bar as a kid every time we went to DQ. It was a real treat.
I think more than just DQ stole from Ted Drewes. The signature frozen custard at Culvers is also called a 'concrete mixer'.
My first job was at Dairy Queen. You want cold? Try working the drive-thru at a DQ in Minnesota in the middle of Winter.🥶
Not only are their Blizzards awesome, they pair great with their Flamethrower burger and fries.
That do be an excellent burger
My favorite? The Oreo Blizzard. 🥶
Yes indeed
There are so many great flavors of Blizzard to choose from. While the Oreo Blizzard is my biggest go-to, there are times when I'm feeling more like a cookie dough or Reese's, or maybe one of their rotating flavors of the month.
I always found the Brownie Earthquake to be a better treat than a Blizzard.
Agreed
Depends. I don’t even like ice cream that much but with an on going heatwave in our country, a slice of the small cup blizzard is an effin relief while eating it inside an air conditioned mall lol
You guys should do a video on the history on Caprisun!!!
Dairy Queen is my go-to for its blizzards. Reese's is the one for me, but I really do enjoy their s'mores blizzard and the pumpkin pie blizzard whenever they're available.
i literally never tasted anything from dq but i surely will enjoy this video
You'll like the Dairy Queen soft serve.
How?
@@adamazzalino5247 I am sadly not in America, my city doesn't even have a DQ.
I think I may have had a cone from Dairy Queen in the late 60's or early 70's, but I am with you. Still, it is fun to watch these videos!
Maaaannnn you messing out!!
My favorite Blizzard has pieces of Reese's peanut butter cups mixed in...
Wow, there was no mention of having the rights to "Dennis the Menace" for advertising.
Oh yeah. I had forgotten about that. He and the rest of the DtM gang used to be all over DQ stuff.
Good memory
It's a woman narrating. Of course she can't do it right 😂
@@307180740shut your dumbass up. Women do do everything better than you degenerates
Did you know that you can ask for chocolate ice cream in your blizzard? My favorite blizzard is chocolate ice cream with crunch coat mixed in (instead of the candy or cookies or whatever)! So good 😋
I do this 😊
my favorite is ice cream is with just cocoa fudge, my second favorite is just strawberries
My wife loved when they had mint Oreos. She got chocolate ice cream with the mint Oreos every time we went. I on the other hand don't like chocolate so I got the Misty freeze. We usually would split a 6 piece chicken strip with extra gravy. But my favorite is the flamethrower burger or if you know the secret menu the flamethrower grilled chicken but I always get gravy for my fries
@@hellhound1389 the gravy is the best part 😅
@@mintykiwi my daughter loves the strawberry sundaes!
Even though I have always know about Dairy Queen and their Blizzards, I had never even heard of a "Dilly Bar" until I worked at Walt Disney World selling snacks a couple of years ago. Some guests would mistakenly ask for a "Dilly Bar" when ordering a "Mickey Bar" and I had no idea what they meant.
Dilly Bars are what made Dairy Queen famous. If you grew up in the 1970’s or earlier like I did this was their main product.
I've never had a DQ Blizzard, but I really enjoy the Dairy Queen ice cream and the chicken and cheeseburgers.
I remember before they remodeled the location where I used to live it looked like it was from the 1950s on the outside. They had giant blow mold Dairy Queen ice cream cones for the enter and exit signs that lit up at night. Always thought that was cool as a kid.
4:50 Ted Drew's a Route 66 classic in St. Louis. I've always seen pictures and videos of it, but never gotten a chance to go there.
the pretzels are so good if they sell them where you live
I'm watching this during a April blizzard on the Canadian Prairies
Another chain, albeit a small one. Ted Drewes Frozen Custard.
Snickerdoodle Blizzard is THE BEST! Seasonal in the late fall and early winter time. It's worth the half of the days calorie intake!
In Canada, Blizzards can be had with Smarties, not M&Ms. This also goes for McFlurries. These are not the small, hard sugar candies that Americans eat. Those are called Rockets here.
A few years ago, Smarties were not made available for both, so mini M&Ms were substituted. People were not happy, and shortly thereafter, Smarties were back.
i live in Atlantic Canada, birthplace of the mcflurry, there was never M&M's of any sort that i know of.
It should be noted that Canadian Smarties are like cheap M&M's, not like the chalky tablets Americans would be familiar with.
@@NewMessage We call those Rockets up here
My favorite was always a mini Banana Split blizzard
M&M’s are pretty gross next to Smarties. But regardless, both are a bad choice for Blizzards or McFlurries as that candy shell gets all soft in the ice cream.
Cotton Candy is my favorite. Seasonal though, only available in the summer.
It’s on the menu right now and I’ve always wanted to try it but iffy haha
@@Anony66156 go for it! What's the worst that could happen?
When i would visit my grandparents during the summer, when I was a kid, my grandfather would take me along when he visited his friends, one of which owned a DQ franchise. I used to love the Mr Misty drink (DQs version of a slushy).
I never met the man himself, but I got the chance in Illinois some years ago to work with the wife of the inventor of the blizzard machine; I didn't delve too deep except to mention my fondness for a good Cookiedough Blizzard, but sometimes she'd talk about how much she and her husband enjoyed getting the processes right and serving all the kids during the summer.
Super sweet lady; sounds like her husband had been as well.
And now I want some cheeseballs and a cookiedough blizzard again...
i love the blizzards from dairy queen
good video
I use to get The Chocolate Rock...soft serve dipped in that chocolate coating, than hot fudge and chipped pecans on top.Mmmm. Then one time , I wanted a Banana Split but not with pineapple. The Server suggested that I try a banana split made with hot fudge, hot caramel and cherry sundae sauce.....TOTALLY AWESOME.
Damn it... now I want a Blizzard.
You and me both, bro!😅
Very interesting video! Thanks for sharing! 🍧🍦🍨
A long lost ice cream chain. Swensen's.
How did I not know DQ started in Kankakee and Joliet?!?!
Dairy Queen's Blizzard mix-in desserts opened the Pandora's Box for many Blizzard copycats:
McDonald's McFlurry
Culver's Concrete Mixer
A&W Polar Swirl
Wendy's Fix 'n Mix Frosty
Hungry Jack's Storm (Australia only)
I remember DQ using the "ice milk" moniker back in the 80's
Source? Proof?
Yes, I remember that phrase in the 70’s. We all knew it was “ice milk” even 50 years ago.
sounds like a watered down cold cup of milk
Use to have few Dairy Queen restaurants in Northern Michigan, only one left, while all the rest closed and turned into locally owned restaurants instead.
When I was growing up in the seventies the Dairy Queen near I live was only open from the beginning of April tothe eand of September and had a walk up window and yearslater we finally got a location that sold hot food sometime in the mid eighties, bothare closed now the first place is a take out Chines place and the second got torn down turned in to a Dollar tree but they had the best fast food hamburgers around .
I live near the busiest DQ in Charlottetown, PEI Canada. It's always busy.
My favorite thing is still their tacos and nachos
I LIVE for their tacos, so freaking good. As well as their chicken and dumplings.
My first job was at DQ! It really built my foundation in customer service and so much more! I loved that job.
As someone who has worked at many similar places, I can't imagine how anyone could possibly love such a job!
Said no one ever...
I worked at a dairy queen for 7 years and I knew more facts than I thought I would’ve!
That’s pretty impressive to successfully start a company then franchise it during the Great Depression.
Um, Dairy Queen started after the Great Depression ended.
People don't realize that the depression hit the southern and western states the hardest but the Midwest surrounding big cities like Chicago weathered it pretty well. My family moved from Alabama to NW Indiana during the depression because they couldn't make it down there but they were better off up here
@@MatthewTheWandererTheir business started in 1938. That’s the Depression. Formally it ended in 1939, but realistically the economy didn’t bounce back until we entered WW2 in December 1941, more so 1942 with the heavy increase in manufacturing for our own war effort.
@@lawrencetalbot8346 hmmm, well, this video claimed that Dairy Queen was founded in 1940, though...
@@MatthewTheWanderer I said the business itself was started in the depression, which it was. It was renamed to Dairy Queen in 1940, which again America was still in the depression as opposed to Europe who were brought out of it thanks to WW2
"Hey, dairyqueen, do y'all use human meat at your Greenwood S.C. location?"
After all this time, people still think they can ask an over-the-top question like that and expect a corporation to be honest about it?
They would not admit it on a public forum like Facebook even if it had been confirmed.
of course we do!
Why settle for Dairy Queen when Culver's exists and has a lot better ice cream. Dairy Queen: Virgin, Culvers: Chad.
Dairy Queen Blizzards are the GOAT
When I was a little kid my favorite thing from Dairy Queen was the Starkiss! I also loved the treatzza pizza- my sister worked for a DQ as a cake decorator and would sometimes get me one for my birthday. As a teen my favorite thing was a grape and blue raspberry Mr Misty, my "magic pixie drink".. 😂 Honorable mention to the Buster Bar and my favorite Blizzard the Georgia Mud Fudge.
Thanks for this! 🍨
The cherry flavored Mister Misty was amazing.
Lmfao I love how people were surprised about how unhealthy the blizzards are. Like wtf did you expect it to be? 🤣
I prefer the banana splits to the blizzards personally
NGL the Oreo/cheesecake blizzard makes me so 😁. It's unbelievably good!
I like the snickers and M and M blizzards. Also the limited chocolate and strawberries
I remember when the Oreo blizzard was made. Man I was ecstatic.
I've always been a fan of the Peanut Buster Parfait. That's the good stuff.
one time i found a lithium battery while sweeping the parking lot there
Do Braums next!
Nice video 😊
Now I want a Tropical Blizzard!
We used to have one. It was pecans, coconut, and banana. But we don't have coconut anymore. Dunno about other locations, though.
I've only had the butterfinger blizzard since 85, it's absolutely perfect!!!!!
Even as children in the 1970’s we knew it was “ice milk” since actual ice “cream” is impossible to make as soft serve. And I disagree that the only reason we go to *DAIRY QUEEN* (I refuse to call it “D.Q.” 🙄) is because of Blizzards. I still prefer Dilly Bars.
Carvel has soft serve real ice cream, not the crap that dairy queen sells
Stone cold creamery
i remember going there on a date with a guy before i realized i liked girls and we broke up after he brought a knife to school
My favorite Blizzard is Heath, Butterfinger and Reese’s peanut butter cup. ❤
A+ video!
LOVE IT! I am always happy after having a blizzard!
Always loved the steak fingers basket (chicken basket was almost as good), and the parfait. Once the parfait went off the menu, I switched to the banana split with no banana (HATE bananas), which was almost the same thing, just served horizontally instead of vertically.
And their burgers were also really good.
just a split
I loved the Nerds Blizzard and then they discontinued it when I was around 10 or so. I would eat part of it and then put it in the freezer with the spoon still in the cup.
I'm from Texas and some years back a few Dairy Queen stores that were owned by one franchisee company had abruptly closed up the stores. They eventually opened back up, (likely those stores were bought by other franchise owners) but no straight answer was given as to why they were closed up in the first place.
I always wondered how this chain started.
Here in Texas you're not considered a town if you don't have a Dairy Queen
I still go to DQ. I get the 6 piece chicken strips with extra gravy then a cherry misty freeze. Sometimes I get either the flamethrower burger or grilled chicken. My favorite blizzard is no longer on the menu. As a kid my favorite was the nerds candy blizzard since I'm not a fan of chocolate and prefer fruit flavor candy. I also get dilly bars but I get the cherry coated ones
blizzard is a cool treat, it is ice cream, and the taste is cold
I grew up literally behind a DQ. I spent many of summers and money on ice cream. When the DQ came out with the blizzard, I was the guinea pig of sorts getting to try out them out before they went on sale. If they made it, I've had it. Recently their dreamsicle dipped cones are pretty good. I still visit that location at least 1-2 a month. If my local DQ ever closes down, I'll never recover..
Love Dairy Queen
Just don't call it "Reese-ees." It's Reese's! I should know!
My favorite blizzard is a chocolate with either heath bats or Reese’s peanut butter cup
I lived in Thailand for a while and they only give you one small spoonful of candy in your Blizzard there. When I returned to Canada, one of the first things I did was get a real Blizzard full of candy bits. Unfortunately, I had become so used to having only a single spoonful of candy that I couldn't finish even have a Canadian Blizzard. I can't even eat them anymore because they're too rich.
My go-to is the Banana Split Blizzard
Some of my favorite Blizzards have been Brownie Batter, Mint Oreo, Oreo Cheesecake, and Pumpkin Pie*
*Seasonal, you can only get it in the fall
Vermont is the only state without a Dairy Queen. That's because we have maple creemees, locally made and so much better than soft serve.
All you can eat soft serve.
My tract felt that
My favorite Blizzard flavors are anything with chocolate, but I also love Dairy Queen's hot fudge sundaes. Kind of dissapointed Weird History didn't mention Dennis The Menace [US] was Dairy Queen's mascot for a while, or the Texas Dairy Queen locations, complete with their own cowboy mascot The D.Q Kid. I do hope that there will be a Jack In The Box video one day, especially if the 1970s Jack In The Box Bunch characters voiced by Disney legend Paul Winchell [who also invented the artificial heart], get a mention.
There is a Jack in the Box video.
Heath Bar, which was my first Blizzard
I think their food is better than the ice cream. Their food is honestly some of the best I’ve had of fast food and people sleep on it. Sad.
Chicken strip basket is awesome
Do A&W restaurants next! 🙏🏼
Who eats at fast food and expects it to be healthy??
Mini blizzards are a joke. If i want a blizzard i want a blizzard. 😊
I was banned from my local DQ when I was 17 for ordering the 'Peanut buster parfait/hold the nuts' too many times. I would get one on the way home from football practice, and for some reason, the idea of it angered the manager/owner/whatever soooo much, he banned me for life. The dude was absolutely unhinged.
Heath Blizzard
My mom remembers getting a baby cone for her dog and human ice cream in a plastic baseball cap at DQ
9:54 Reese's isn't supposed to rhyme with feces
I don't think I've ever had a Blizzard. I haven't been to a DQ in almost 40 years.
Strawberry cheesecake was my favorite
Am i first? Idk, big dairy queen fan tho
you are
Congrats.
Sad
Dairy queen :D
that card that cardigan
We need an Oreo cookie video. Hydrox? Sounds like a cleaning product and not a cookie.
32g added sugar is the limit .
180g in a blizzard is 6X the daily limit
I don't think I've ever had a Dairy Queen Blizzard. I've never been much for crunchy stuff in my ice "milk." I've had lots of stuff from there. I can't count the number of times I've had their chicken baskets and sundaes. I've just never had a craving for the Blizzard.
Do Foster's Freeze next, please!
Tell us abt Carvel and the inspirational backstory of Fudgie the Whale
0:01 The first gig of singer Gwen Stefani (from No Doubt, one of my favorite bands) was at Dairy Queen.
Wrong... they didn't preform at a DQ. 3 of the band members worked together at a DQ.. fuc**** idi**
When It don't melt, we have a problem
I doordash, and my town has a very busy 'brazier' DQ. I deliver more hot food than treat items, by far.
I always wondered why they misspelled brassiere.
Never knew that they didn’t sell ice cream