Dairy Queen celebrates 75 years in Texas, asks customers to share favorite DQ memories

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[mylife]

I like pineapple sundaes :P

[mylife]

OH MY!!! :)

[DesertRhino]

Before I got my first job there (outside of mowing lawns), I used to get lunch there when I was in Junior High. We could
leave campus. Took a dollar to school and got a burger, a coke and either fries or a small cone with the change. For a buck and a quarter I got all of the above.

A whole meal, for a dollar.

[struggle]

>I remember when Dairy Queen ran Mets promos in the 60’s. One of the oldest operating DQs still in the original slant roof building with the walk up counter is in Montvale, NJ

I was out in Cody, WY and the DQ there was probably the best fast food I’ve had in a long time.

[DesertRhino]

Don’t worry, I know that’s too ripe to send into DQ HQ, so I just thought I’d keep it to myself, and only share it with the ten or fifteen closed strangers here at FR.

[mylife]

never kiss and tell ;)

[ro_dreaming]

When everyone at least THOUGHT DQ was a Texas company

[DesertRhino]

Well, I guess I’m ok, since I didn’t kiss. I just stood there like a young deer in the headlights. High beam headlights I might add.

They live on in my mind, jiggling to the rhythm of her washing those pots and pans beside me.

[ro_dreaming]

To be fair, back in the day - I mean late 70’s - Dairy Queen would have plastic mugs you could get drinks in with the local high school logo/name on it. I’ve got a Sam Rayburn (Texan) left of the Pasadena ISD (Texas) schools I had.

I never remember them making a Deer Park (Deer) ISD (Texas), but would have bought a dozen.

[PAR35]

Used to be able to get better hamburgers at the ones outside of Texas.

[mylife]

very cool, for a root beer float

[mylife]

all better than McDonald

[11th_VA]

My memory - I told the guy I wanted chocolate not vanilla - so he scooped out the vanilla cone with his fingers and put chocolate in the cone. Yes, I ate it - the wife freaked out …

[mylife]

LOL!!!

[MHGinTN]

I wonder if they still serve that ‘Double Dilly’ I got them to make for me? Take a dilly bar and dip it into the butterscotch topping, presto a Double Dilly!

[mylife]

Im sure it could be done :)

[crusty old prospector]

My favorite is either the Jalitos Ranch Hungr’Buster or the DQ Dude. Grilled jalapeños, mmm.

[mylife]

sound better than a McSquooge

[dynachrome]

“stealing a tank of whipped cream gas for a party”

or so I heard. What is the statute of limitations on that, anyway?

[Dacula]

you got a ‘dipped’ for a nickel, I had to pay 25 cents for a dipped cone.

When I was a kid you could get a nickel for doing chores like washing windows for neighbors. I would take that nickel and buy a cone dipped in chocolate from the Dairy Queen. It took about 45 minutes to walk there but it was worth every step.