Submitted 1 day ago by sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone to [deleted]
Isn’t it supposed to be ice creams and milkshakes and stuff?
Here’s the fun part: while you’re all talking about their ice cream, technically it’s not legal to call their product that. You won’t see it anywhere on the menu. I think it has to do with the milk/cream/egg/sugar amounts? There may not be egg at all, but can’t remember for sure.
Anyway, all you’ll ever see on the menu is “soft serve”
Ice cream has to be at least 10% butterfat and 20% milk solids according to the FDA.
DQ soft serve is 5% butterfat so would not legally qualify as ice cream, though it would qualify as low fat ice cream.
I do believe that most soft serve is a similar fat percentage, and also has much more air per volume than traditional ice cream.
Also, I must say as an ice cream aficionado, I do love me some soft serve and I would never disparage it by calling it “not real ice cream.”
Funny enough, the milk they use (at least the supplier to the store I managed) is nonfat milk. So the first listed ingedient is nonfat milk, and the second is milk fat, lol.
Oh, for sure. Especially during pumpkin pie blizzard season. Plus they always seem to feed my FOMO with some other flavor so I go twice during that season alone
Define “food.”
If you have n icecream shops in highly sought after retail locations where people are buying food, it would be kinda crazy not to sell food.
DQ has surprisingly good chili dogs. Their burgers aren’t bad, if you omit the ketchup.
Their chicken tenders are some of the best fast food tenders you can get too. Plus they come with sourdough toast
They’ve got to do something with the cows once they’re too old to milk.
Amd they need to do something with calves. Cows only produce milk after giving birth, and dairy producers are not going to keep a freeloader around. /s
That’s the veal industry
That makes too much sense :/
Same reason you can get ice cream from other fast food places.
At least the other fast food places don’t have names like “Ben &Jerry” or “Baskin Robbins”
Burger King sells stuff that isn’t burgers, taco bell sells more than tacos.
Is ice cream not food?
As a solid? Yes.
As a liquid? Maybe.
As a gas? No.
As a gas?
Well now I want to see the next evolution of Dippin Dots: Air-Scream.
Can someone from England ask her?
Salty and sweet, man! Clearly you’ve never dipped fries into a milkshake. Your lack of life experience is concerning.
Maybe they’re English. Nobody there thinks that they should dip their chippies in a frozen creamydoodle.
Because no one should do that. It seems super gross (and I’m American)
I would never do that to a French Fry.
Hot eats cool treats. That was the slogan 20 years ago. Get some nuggets and a blizzard.
Dairy Queen has been selling food since 1958. They are not “an ice cream store” any more than McDonalds is
This is insane to me, for some reason I thought they were an ice cream store.
The market bears what the market bears 🤷
So you can get dinner and dessert at the same place.
This makes a lot of sense actually.
One other thing I haven’t seen mentioned is selling ice cream is only a sustainable business for a few months out of the year in many places. Whereas you can sell burgers/dogs/etc year-round. But yeah, as far as I know they’ve always sold fast food - their burgers were a fave of mine when I was a kid in the 70s.
Wow that’s neat. There’s a Dairy Queen sort of near me, I’ve driven past it a million times, but I thought they only sold ice cream so I’ve never gone in.
Dude, their burgers are awesome. It’s one of the few, if only fast food joints that still cook burgers on an actual flat top.
I just wish they hadn’t switched to the soggy as fuck steak cut fries.
That is entirely different store to store. The one I managed and our sister store (owned by the same family) used a conveyer belt style flame broiler (automatic broiler). Far more consistent and less labor intensive.
Which fast food places are not using a flat top for burgers? Just Burger King?
How long have they been a fast food store? I thought they were an ice cream shop
1990’s? At least in Canada.
Decades and decades ago. Not remotely new. Your question was outdated 25 years ago.
french fries and a blizzard is fucking fire
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Once upon a time there were two types of Dairy Queens. Some were just ice cream, but the ones called “Dairy Queen Braizer” sold hot food too. Eventually they all sold hot food.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Thanks for the actual answer!
entwine413@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I mean, it’s not an actual answer. It’s just a historic fact.
The actual answer is that diversifying your product offerings gets you more business.