One of my favorite places to get a treat from is Dairy Queen. I love their soft serve ice cream and they have so many things to choose from. I like a lot of the things on the menu, but I was get the same thing and its my favorite thing off of the menu. I love the mint oreo blizzard. The ice cream is so smooth, creamy, and delicious. The mint is soothing and always just the right amount and not too over powering. And the oreos are so good because they get nice and soft after being in the ice cream but not in a soggy way. Everyone has their favorites when they go to Dairy Queen. There's blizzards that can be mixed with fruit, candy, or cookies; sundaes with a bunch of different toppings, dilly bars, buster bars, and even banana splits. They also have ice cream flavors that coordinate with holidays; pumpkin pie blizzards for Halloween and Thanksgiving, reindeer blizzards and peppermint blizzards for Christmas, and mint oreo blizzards for St. Patrick's day. I did a little research and found out about the history of Dairy Queen.
It goes all the way back to the 1930's when a man named J.F. (grandpa) Mcullough and his son Alex were running a shop called the Homemade Ice Cream Co. in Davenport. In the 1930's the pair bought a new factory in Green River, Illinois and this is where their ideas began to take form. Grandpa Mcullough thought that the ice cream tasted best before it went through the final freezing because at such cold temperatures customers taste buds would be somewhat numbed by the ice cream and some of the flavor would be lost. The two men decided to see if they could find a machine that would keep ice cream in this softer form and if customers would have interest in this form of the dairy treat. The Mcullough's talked to their friend and customer Sherb Noble who agreed to sell this product as a test in his store. The sale was called the "all you can eat for 10 cents" and was held on August 4, 1938. The sale was a huge success and after only 2 hours over 1600 dishes of ice cream were served. After one more successful test run at another ice cream store called Mildred's Ice cream shop the two decided to continue this idea. By 1939 the Mcullough's found a freezer that with a few modifications would be able to serve this soft ice cream. Their idea was put somewhat on hold due to the out break of World War II, but soon after it really took off. The first store was opened in Joliet and was soon followed by stores in Moline, Aurora, and Davenport. The store was named Dairy Queen because Grandpa Mcullough believed that this new treat was the queen of all dairy products. In 1962 the international Dairy Queen Inc. was formed linking the Dairy Queens together to form a chain restaurant business.
Interesting DQ facts:
-The Dilly Bar was created in 1955
-The first national television commercial aired in 1966
-The Buster Bar was created in 1968
-Dennis the Menace became the spokes character for Dairy Queen in 1972
-In 1985 the blizzard is created and over 175 million are sold in just the first year
-in 2005 the worlds largest blizzard was created. It weighed 8,224.85 pounds, stood 22 feet tall, and was created in Springfield, Massachusetts.
information from:
http://www.dairyqueen.com/us-en/history/
http://www.qconline.com/progress98/business/prqueen2.html
Picture from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_Queen
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