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Mmmm, Tastes Like America
Sno-balls in sweaty New Orleans. Fudge cake on the Outer Banks. Spicy fruit on a Los Angeles street corner. This is what an American summer tastes like.
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May 28, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
The Blizzard was an instant hit when Dairy Queen introduced it in 1985. “Dairy Queen’s Blizzard Is Hot,” The New York Times reported the next year, crediting the delicacy with boosting the company’s stock price and sales of mix-ins, like Heath bars.
A Pittsburgh man wanted for questioning as part of an Allegheny County homicide investigation was arrested Wednesday on drug charges. Tyrell Revis, 18, was charged in federal court with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and crack cocaine after he was stopped by police in Carrick. A Munhall officer, who
At 10 years old, Chuck Page began working for the family business.
He cleaned milkshake collars stainless steel attachments used to keep ice cream from splattering from the top of a paper cup when blending ingredients.
Fifty-seven years later, he’s still at the milkshake machine.
“I love ice cream,” said Page, whose great-grandfather Charles Alexander Page founded Page Dairy Mart in 1951. It’s located at the corner of Becks Run Road and East Carson Street on Pittsburgh’s South Side. His great-great-grandfather bought the land from the Hays family in 1916. The Page family is from West Mifflin.
“I don’t mind cleaning those collars. It’s a necessary part of the business,” he said. “It’s what you do to keep things going.”
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