The Distract me from 2020s P&CE Thread Part Deux

This will always be my favorite version

 

Is it really frozen custard? Or is it frozen "custard". Because there is a HUUUGE difference. Once you've tried the real thing, everything else tastes like shit.

 

Yeah, we’re DQ fans. We have/had to pass ours on the way back from our fav beach. Had to! Because it burned to the ground about 3 years ago.
They started rebuilding this year. We still pass and say what will we get on the way back. Looks like it hasn’t got long to go, they’re working on cosmetic stuff outside.
I need a Heath Bar Blizzard
Mrs Scouse is pissed because they didn’t have cherry Dilly bars anymore.

 

Been a DQ fan since childhood, but I haven't ever had chocolate ice cream there, only vanilla.

Even now I chop and stir just about any ice cream until it's DQ consistency before I start to eat.

 

That thought has me worried about the ingredients in the “chocolate” syrup.

 

It's still probably going to have chocolate solids, but replace the cocoa butter with some other kind of fat. But that's what they would have done to the chocolate ice cream anyway.

Frankly, vanilla ice cream is a better ice cream than chocolate, so adding chocolate syrup to vanilla ice cream should make a better smoothie.

 

Ice cream has such a range of quality anyway. This place ruined other ice cream for me after I visited it on Prince Edwards Island some years ago.

 

We're lucky that we have a long-established diary in the county. It's over a century old. So old, in fact, it still puts the cattle out to pasture most of the year, so they're grass fed for 8 to 10 months. This results in terrific ice cream. And there milk is pretty much the only milk I can get that's slow pasteurized, which makes it ideal for making kefir (not so good for yogurt, but that's what the grocery store is for). And the milk is usually no more than 10-15 cents more expensive than the national brands in the store.

 

DQ bought out Orange Julius back in the 80's. One of my favorite drinks.

 

Their PinoColada was a fav of mine in the Mall. A tad pricey though. If it had rum it would have been worth it.

 

Tilimook Dairy is a must when we drive upstate. Milk, Cheese and Icecream. All the cows live along the coast and munch on salt loaded grasses. Seems to give a pleasant taste.

 

I remember them. They had a booth and then a space in a mall on the other side of town. I never liked the drinks. I'm not a citrus + dairy person. Now, if there were an Apple or Banana Julius? Yeah, that's a go. I also thought the dogs were kind of overrated.

DQ's burgers are pretty good, but their dogs are also meh. I've been spoiled by too many rural HS football game concession dogs that were grilled 20 feet away. Most fast food places are scared to cook a dog done enough to make it worthy of a bun and kraut/chili/relish/onions/slaw/whatever. Gimme my dog the way you'd give it to me at somebody's house BBQ, which would be slightly charred.

 

Yeah...I like charred dogs too but my favorite is steamed natural casing like I got at HS games [grills hadn't been invented yet]!

 

Seriously? People had the tech to steam dogs but hadn't made a grill? When did grills get made?

 

You make it sound like the cows own beachfront property and clock in when they're full of milk

 

I don't know about the US, but I've seen documentaries where this is essentially what happens in some European dairies. They have robotic milkers and the cow just goes in when it feel like it needs to be milked no people involved.

 

There's a Pelican Brewing taproom nearby that serves deep fried Tillamook cheese curds. I like to pair it with their Kiwanda Cream Ale. Delish!

 

DQ near me has fast food and they have this breakfast bowl or sausage gravy biscuits and eggs that is delicious. I got here for that more than the ice cream. They have this ice cream iced coffee thing that sucks though

 

Their extra sharp Cheddar and ice cream are my go to's! None of their milk here.

 

We stopped there once when in the area, it was touristy but fun, watching the assembly line was mesmerizing. Plus where else can you get a bag of fresh cheese curds?

And yeah, their ice cream is delicious too.

 

I drove by like 5 places this weekend.

I highly recommend their OG brewpub on the coast. Amazing spot. Great beer.

 

I had literally never seen them in my life before that day. So there’s a big cheese curd market in your region I reckon?