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Whether you're craving a plain vanilla cone or an elaborate banana split, your local Dairy Queen has been the go-to spot for summertime soft-serve since 1940.

1. THE FIRST DQ WAS LOCATED IN JOLIET, ILLINOIS.

To promote the new soft-serve store, founder Sherb Noble suggested an "all you can eat for 10 cents" sale. The promotion was so popular, Noble worried that the stampede of customers would break the glass windows of the store front.

2. A "BRAZIER" DAIRY QUEEN IS ONE THAT SERVES HOT FOOD IN ADDITION TO ICE CREAM.

A "brazier," by the way, is another word for a charcoal grill.

3. THERE'S A RHYME AND REASON TO THE COMPANY'S NAME.

The original store was deemed Dairy Queen because Jack "Grandpa" McCullough, the "driving force" behind DQ's soft serve, said his creation was a queen among dairy products.

4. DAIRY QUEEN'S SOFT SERVE RECIPE IS A HIGHLY GUARDED TRADE SECRET.

And just like KFC and Coke, they'll never reveal the ingredients. "[The formula] is kept in a safe deposit box and there are only a few keys to it," DQ's chief branding officer, Michael Keller, has said.

5. NO DOUBT FORMED AT A DAIRY QUEEN IN 1986.

Gwen Stefani and her brother Eric worked with other founding member John Spence at an Anaheim store, where they discussed forming a band. Other celebrity DQ employees include former Attorney General John Ashcroft, actress Bonnie Hunt, and singer Martina McBride.

6. THOUGH DAIRY QUEEN HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE 1940, IT DIDN'T INTRODUCE ITS TRADEMARK BLIZZARDS UNTIL 1985.

They sold more than 175 million Blizzards in the very first year.

7. MANY FRANCHISES TURN BLIZZARDS UPSIDE DOWN IN FRONT OF CUSTOMERS BEFORE SERVING.

It's proof of how thick and delicious their soft-serve is-but it's also a total marketing gimmick. Some stores offer the treat for free if the employee fails to perform the trick.

You can credit a teenage boy in Missouri for inspiring the practice. In the 1950s, Ted Drewes Jr. ran a frozen custard stand located in St. Louis, where he sold concretes-frozen custard mixed with bits of fruit. In 1959, 14-year-old Steve Gamber made a habit of visiting Drewes's stand nearly every day and asking for a chocolate malt. Every time Drewes handed it to him, Gamber would ask for him to make it thicker.

Eventually, Gamber said, Drewes got fed up and started turning it upside down "just to shut me up." But the tradition lasted, and Drewes began turning every customer's concrete upside down before serving it. In the 1970s, Dairy Queen franchisee Sam Temperato, who owned several DQ restaurants in St. Louis, took notice of both Drewes's concretes and cheeky presentation and went to Dairy Queen executives with the proposal for the first Blizzard. ( Ted Drewes, meanwhile, is still a St. Louis institution.)

8. THE GREEN TEA BLIZZARD IS THE #1 SELLER IN CHINA.

In the U.S., the most popular Blizzard is Oreo.

9. WARREN BUFFETT LOVES DAIRY QUEEN.

Of course, he owns it-at least, Berkshire Hathaway does-but he really supports the product. Once, while dining at the Four Seasons in New York City, he asked staff to pick him up some DQ ice cream for dessert. Unfortunately, the city didn't have a DQ location at the time, so he had to settle for some cookies.

10. DQ SOLD A FROZEN YOGURT OPTION IN THE '90S, BUT IT DIDN'T CATCH ON.

You may remember the Breeze, a lower-calorie Blizzard alternative that was made with frozen yogurt. It was around for about a decade before the company pulled it from the menu, saying demand was so low that the frozen yogurt would often go bad before it could be used.

11. DALLAS MAVERICKS OWNER MARK CUBAN ANGERED DAIRY QUEEN EMPLOYEES ACROSS THE NATION IN 2002.

Cuban suggested that Ed Rush, the NBA's head of officiating, wasn't even capable of managing a Dairy Queen. In response, the company invited the billionaire to give it a shot himself-and he accepted their offer. Wearing a "Tony" nametag, Cuban spent two hours serving customers at a Dairy Queen in Coppell, Texas, in 2002. He had trouble perfecting the trademark "Q" swirl at the top of soft-serve cones.

12. TECHNICALLY, WHEN YOU ORDER A CONE OR CUP AT DAIRY QUEEN, YOU'RE NOT GETTING ICE CREAM.

According to the company, "Our soft-serve does not qualify to be called ice cream. To be categorized as ice cream, the minimum butterfat content must be 10 percent, and our soft-serve has only 5 percent butterfat."

13. THE DILLY BAR WAS INVENTED IN 1955.

The soft-serve round coated in chocolate and finished with that signature Dairy Queen swirl was introduced to the franchise by Robert Litherland, the co-owner of a store in Moorhead, Minnesota. Employees of an ice cream distributor in Minneapolis showed up at Litherland's door to demonstrate the technique, and finished by holding up the completed bar and saying, "Now, isn't that a dilly!" The name stuck, though Litherland had one regret: "We weren't smart enough to copyright that name." Too bad; it's been getting plenty of use elsewhere lately.

14. THE "MOOLATTE" ICE CREAM TREAT GENERATED SOME CONTROVERSY.

When DQ rolled out the MooLatte frozen coffee drink in 2004, more than a few eyebrows were raised at the made-up word's similarity to the slur "mulatto." But the controversy wasn't enough to squash the product; it's still around today.

15. DENNIS THE MENACE WAS THE COMPANY SPOKESTOON UNTIL 2002.

When the copyright license expired, Dairy Queen chose not to renew it. It's been speculated that company execs felt Dennis was no longer a character kids related to.

16. THERE WAS ONCE A "LITTLE MISS DAIRY QUEEN."

Clad in a Dutch-style cap, dress, and shoes, Little Miss Dairy Queen was featured as a 5-foot weather vane in a select few locations. Most are gone now, but see if you can spot one on your next road trip.

17. THE WORLD'S LARGEST BLIZZARD WEIGHED 8260.85 POUNDS.

It was made in 2005 in Springfield, Massachusetts. Guinness doesn't specify the flavor, but if we had to guess, we'd say it was Oreo.

18. DAIRY QUEEN ALSO HOLDS THE RECORD FOR THE WORLD'S LARGEST ICE CREAM CAKE.

Made of sponge cake and vanilla ice cream, the dessert was constructed in Toronto in 2011. It weighed more than 10 tons and was topped with a ridiculous amount of crushed Oreo cookies.

19. SAUDI ARABIA REALLY LOVES DAIRY QUEEN.

It must, anyway-otherwise, Berkshire Hathaway wouldn't have opened the world's largest Dairy Queen in Riyadh. The two-level restaurant is 7500 square feet and can seat 240 customers.

20. THE BLIZZARDMOBILE WAS A THING.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Blizzard in 2010, DQ took a cue from Oscar Mayer and rolled out the Blizzardmobile, a large truck that stopped at 25 cities in the U.S. and Canada. The truck distributed free mini Blizzards and conducted various games for coupons and prizes.
A version of this list first ran in 2016.

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20 Things You Didn't Know About Dairy Queen

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Whether you're craving a plain vanilla cone or an elaborate banana split, your local Dairy Queen has been the go-to spot for summertime soft-serve since 1940. 1. THE FIRST DQ WAS LOCATED IN JOLIET, ILLINOIS. To promote the new soft-serve store, founder Sherb Noble suggested an "all you can eat for 10 cents" sale.

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Start using given when and Then.
Thinking more link an end user and defining our acceptance criteria

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Yay, everything is completed!!!

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It is like we are presenting to ourselves.

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Finally got Karthik unblocked with help from everyone

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Finally got Karthik unblocked with help from everyone

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Lots of help from Bauer + sETH with fixing and updating builds 

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Lots of help from Bauer + sETH with fixing and updating builds 

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Big push to close stories on the last day

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Big push to close stories on the last day

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Great collaboration with bangalore and firmware on factory test

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Great collaboration with bangalore and firmware on factory test

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Orion coordinated several fixes for issues found by firmware and worked with Bangalore team to deliver the fix over night. Or Orion just did the work himself.

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Present other value create during this sprint

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Present other value create during this sprint

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Thanks Sarah for wrangling everyone to work on the slides during demo prep!

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Thanks Sarah for wrangling everyone to work on the slides during demo prep!

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Karthik very patient with slow updates to getting functional tests working again.

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Karthik very patient with slow updates to getting functional tests working again.

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Jon said his confidence level was a 2 when we had a whole week left. That was slightly discouraging.

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Jon said his confidence level was a 2 when we had a whole week left. That was slightly discouraging.

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 Only the blue and red oatmeals were left from the variety pack. WTH is “Original” flavor? PLAIN IS NOT A FLAVOR!!!

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 Only the blue and red oatmeals were left from the variety pack. WTH is “Original” flavor? PLAIN IS NOT A FLAVOR!!!

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I would like to see program updates happen regularly. In each planning perhaps we could have the schedule presented to us so that we know what important dates are coming.

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iOS Required reviewers rarely respected. What is the point if we push all these through?

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iOS Required reviewers rarely respected. What is the point if we push all these through?

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Meeting with Ben Hopkins, Troy Stuart and Jonathan Everson (Schoemer, Alkire, Luif  and Wicklein)

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Meeting with Ben Hopkins, Troy Stuart and Jonathan Everson (Schoemer, Alkire, Luif  and Wicklein)

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Closed most user storied last day of sprint

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Lots of PRs waiting on PRs. And merge conflicts.

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Lots of PRs waiting on PRs. And merge conflicts.

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Everyone's PR was eventually approved, tested, and successful.

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Everyone's PR was eventually approved, tested, and successful.

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Factory test work happening outside of the sprint

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Factory test work happening outside of the sprint

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I was surprised to learn that the team didn't even know that API was involved with this process

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With Lot of visitors (Mark, Vince and Laurent), I (Karthik) spent more time than outside the board than anticipated.

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No one on the team was aware that there was an integration on Factory Test happening until the morning it started. To add to the confusion resources from this team were expected to support it with no warning.

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Face to face meetings occurred, which is nice.

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Few points completed until last 2 days of sprint

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Few points completed until last 2 days of sprint

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I saw all disciplines making decisions together and communicating constantly to fix problems together.

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Orion helped a lot with debugging the signature tool.

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Orion helped a lot with debugging the signature tool.

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we moved the mock stories from last sprint but we could not finish one of them. Can we take time to talk about the why these 3 point stories took long to finish and what can we do differently.

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Sarah figuring out  what she needs to present API

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Sarah figuring out  what she needs to present API

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Major support for Not Mark from many team members so he can get better and try not to die

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Major support for Not Mark from many team members so he can get better and try not to die

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Snow, snow and more snow :)

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Can we strategize to not have likelihoods of blocked work

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Can we strategize to not have likelihoods of blocked work

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It was 13 degrees this morning and it hurt me.

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It was 13 degrees this morning and it hurt me.

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Read the Fast Company article on self sabotage

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Read the Fast Company article on self sabotage

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Add value to future sprints by demonstrating the build/dashboard work. If we spend 4+ hours working on dlls and automating builds then we should probably highlight that during the demo.

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Add value to future sprints by demonstrating the build/dashboard work. If we spend 4+ hours working on dlls and automating builds then we should probably highlight that during the demo.

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Prakash is only allowed to look at things that affect the common code. He is no longer a mandatory reviewer, his participation is optional.

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Prakash is only allowed to look at things that affect the common code. He is no longer a mandatory reviewer, his participation is optional.

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We need to be informed of when there is system testing/factory testing.

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We need to be informed of when there is system testing/factory testing.

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If we have leadership attending within the upcoming sprint we should adjust our capacity in response to that.

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If we have leadership attending within the upcoming sprint we should adjust our capacity in response to that.

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Attempt to avoid large pull requests by merging into feature files. Another option is to create WIP pull request so people can see the progress as it is being worked on.

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Attempt to avoid large pull requests by merging into feature files. Another option is to create WIP pull request so people can see the progress as it is being worked on.

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Julian has to present his work more often because he does things and we need those things to be appreciated.

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Julian has to present his work more often because he does things and we need those things to be appreciated.