My go-to meal at DQ is a Flamethrower burger, double patty no cheese, with a side of cheese curds and a chocolate shake. Maybe if I’m feeling decadent I’ll just get a basket of chili cheese fries instead.
If I’m in the mood for a dessert, I usually just go with a banana split.
They came out in 1985 according to the DQ wiki.
By default, soft serve ice cream is vanilla or chocolate. That’s been my experience my entire life. Although I’m sure it can be flavored other ways too.
I used to buy a cone or sundae from some place almost every week throughout childhood. Now, I save it for rare treats. A vanilla cone on a hot summer day is still wonderful.
DQ’s didn’t seem to have any distinguishable flavor.
You can turn a cup of standard soft serve upside down and it won’t fall out?
On a side note, does DQ still make freshly hand-dipped Dilly bars, or are they all machine-made and pre-packaged now?
There are currently 4500 DQ stores in the US, including one in many small towns. There are currently 600 Culver’s located mostly in the upper Midwest with a few locations in other states.
In Texas, DQ is ubiquitous with small towns on 2-lane highways and is called the Texas Stop Sign (sad, considering it’s a Minnesota company!) Culver’s is ubiquitous with high-income suburban developments.
THATS why the Blizzard is popular!
I’m very happy DQ is making a comeback in Arkansas. They’re all in brand new buildings and clean.
I’m not sure why DQ closed here in the mid 1990’s. I sure missed then.
Same thing happened with Dennys. We had six locations in the Metro area. By 2004 there was only one left.
Omg I love that burger. I always get it with onion rings though. I haven’t tried the cheese curds…mostly cause I have no idea wth they are or taste like lol And of course always a Blizzard. Depending on the flavor of the month, I might get one. Someone mentioned the Cotton Candy one earlier and I had forgotten about it. It’s freaking amazing. But lately I like the uhh truffle candy one? I can’t remember what it’s called. That or M&Ms.
I’m sort of snobby about frozen custard since I grew up on Milwaukee’s Leon’s (by grandma’s house) and Kopp’s (by our house).
Culver’s is subpar on two levels for me. One, the custard recipe ain’t that great, and two, a flavor of the day should have the ‘stuff’ mixed into the custard. A cookies n cream should be vanilla custard with cookie bits mixed throughout. Culver’s makes you a vanilla sundae/cone with cookie bits sprinkled on it. Lame.
Oh man, I love Blizzards*. I used to get a mudslide blizzard (chocolate sauce, coffee flavoring and crushed Oreos) on the regular. Then my peanut and tree nut allergy showed up in my early twenties and has gotten progressively worse (epi-pen territory now), and there’s too much risk of cross contamination.
I really, really, really miss Blizzards, though.
*They debuted in my teen years, when I was a whip-skinny athlete, so I could, and did, eat them on the regular.
Actually, as I noted above (#27), DQ trademarked “Blizzard” in 1952 (not 1946), so they weren’t using it in 1933
I’ve never heard of coffee Heath Bar blizzards. While I’m sure that’s what you meant; in case you meant Toffee Heath Bar blizzards, then I saw them at DQ just yesterday. Sadly they don’t have Snickers Blizzards anymore. 
Why DQ Blizzards are served upside down.
Here’s a fun link about when DQ created an upside store to serve their blizzards “right side up.”
Disclaimer: this is not to be construed as an official statement from the USPTO.
The stated first use was in '46, trademark application (#71603440) was filed in '50, and the mark was registered (#559844) in '52.
That has to do with The Penguin, or whatever their original name was, not DQ.
Pretty sure these had coffee flavor, but then my memory isn’t what it used to be.
I like their Heath blizzard (and butter finger, and… basically any candy bar I like in pulverized form), but my favorite dessert theirs is the banana split.
Yep, they had several with the coffee flavor option. Mmmmm coffee flavor.
Do they still have German Chocolate Blizzards?
Ben & Jerry’s have a coffee Heath Bar crunch that’s pretty dang good.
When I eat ice cream I want quality ice cream, and I’m not a fan of lots of extra bits like cookies and candies in it. I don’t want to have to chew my ice cream. And if I’m in the mood for candy or cookies, I don’t want them made soggy by sitting in ice cream. Guess I’m not the target audience for the Blizzard!
Best “shake” I ever had was at a small chain in the L.A. area called Clancy Muldoon’s. It was their cappucino shake. Chocolate ice cream with tiny bits of coffee candy (small enough that you didn’t have to bite very hard), coffee syrup and whipped cream. My sister and I once went to get one when it was raining like the dickens in her VW bug with a doxie and a beagle in the car with us. Our craving was strong!
I remember when the Blizzard first came out. They were selling them as a new treat at the New Mexico State Fair. I was 10-12, so it would have been 1985 or thereabouts. I seem to recall that they only had a couple of flavors, M&M being the primary one. And yes, it was unusual, because it was like having a sundae, but instead of toppings, it was mixed in. Doesn’t seem like much now, but back then, it was the “bee’s knees”.
Funniest Blizzard story: I ordered one at a drive-thru, and the girl making it apparently accidentally punched a little hole in the cup. So, she put that cup inside another one so it wouldn’t leak. Just before she handed it to me, as is standard procedure, she turned it upside down. And of course the inner cup slid neatly out of the outer cup, which she was holding, and it plopped onto the windowsill. She made me another one.
My favorite flavor, which I probably haven’t had in about a year and a half, is “French silk pie”. The chocolate flavor isn’t as “in your face” as with other chocolate Blizzards, and it had chocolate shavings and bits of pie crust. Nice. They usually have the stuff to make it, even if it’s not on the menu.