#dairy-queen

#dairy-queen

While stores touting trendy clothing, knick-knacks of every imaginable variety, and video games are all very well, there is nothing quite like the epicenter of the mall: The humble food court. One mall food court chain we wish would come back got its start in the early 1920s and grew to become synonymous with mall culture in its heyday before sadly vanishing.

Perhaps the Heath Blizzard was doomed from the start, since Heath bars are notoriously hard and crunchy to start. When eaten at room temperature, their crunch all but melts in your mouth after the first bite, releasing a burst of buttery sweet richness. But the Heath bar was added in such tiny chunks that we could hardly taste them. The buttery sweet flavor was completely muted by the vanilla soft serve. We understand the conundrum DQ faces because adding larger chunks of Heath bar to ice-cold soft-serve would turn them into tooth-cracking rocks.

In a 2024 study by the Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT), Dairy Queen received a failing score - or "F" rating - for lack of transparency about its animal welfare standards and use of antibiotics in its beef, as well as for numerous customer complaints about burger quality. As FACT explains, "superbugs" are dangerous, antibiotic-resistant bacteria that affect livestock, leading to unhealthy, subpar quality meat.

It was honey. I was having honey. The claim that the snack was a Blizzard was frozen fib.