The most
popular thing on
Dairy Queen's
menu. Bigger than the
BeltBuster. More important than the
dip cones. Better than the
Country Basket. They pour some of their
vanilla soft-serve ice cream into a cup, add a few
toppings (ranging from
chocolate syrup and
cherries to
Butterfinger chunks and
M&Ms), then
mix it all up 'til it's all
blended together. They turn it
upside-down when they deliver it to you, to show how
thick it is.
It is not merely
delicious. It is
fucking delicious.
When the Blizzard was originally
introduced back in
1985, it was a
revelation. It wasn't a
soda, it wasn't a
shake, it wasn't a
sundae, it was something almost entirely new. Numerous
ice cream parlors and
restaurants rushed their own versions onto the menu -- most were poorly realized and
derivative, if not outright
unappetizing. I don't know if anyone keeps stats on the most popular
ice cream dish in the U.S., but if the Blizzard isn't at the very
top, it's at least in the top three...