8 Things You Probably Never Knew About the Dairy Queen Blizzard
Only the biggest Dairy Queen fans will know these fun facts about the iconic Blizzard treat. 1
The Blizzard wasn’t always on the menu
The first Dairy Queen opened in Joliet, Illinois in 1940, but the iconic Blizzard treat wasn’t introduced until 45 years later in 1985! The original Dairy Queen sold soft serve, sundaes and containers of ice cream, and you could get a cone for just 5 cents. 2
technically aren’t ice cream
You may not have ever noticed, but Dairy Queen doesn’t call its Blizzards ice cream. That’s because they can’t! According to the FDA, a product must contain at least 10 percent butterfat or milkfat to be called ice cream, and DQ’s soft serve only has 5 percent hence why it’s always referred to as a Blizzard “treat.”