Dairy Queen

Why, oh why do I bother coming here? Certainly my waist line doesn’t need it but sometimes a hankering for ice cream is so strong you just have to go with it. There are times, too, when nostalgia hits you. I won’t mention how many years but it was at least a couple of decades that I could remember driving home from South Florida beaches in my parent’s VW van with the warm, damp, and salty breeze blowing through the windows leaving us a bit chilled whilst we children sang, «I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice scream,» and it would often be enough to prompt my dad to make a small detour and hit up the local DQ.
The service is usually decent and they don’t seem to have a problem getting the orders right which couldn’t be said about a year ago. I’d almost given up on DQ then, but the draws of my sweet tooth cravings were more powerful than my willpower.
Who doesn’t love soft serve, especially dipped in a crisp and creamy chocolate shell coating? And banana splits? Fuhgeddaboudit! No, don’t. Seriously you can’t go wrong with the banana split if you ask them to substitute the chocolate syrup for the thick, glossy, hot fudge topping and the pineapple for delicious, smooth, gooey, and buttery, hot caramel sauce. The strawberries aren’t overly processed so they complement the fudge and caramel sauces. The one item I would stay away from at this location is the Heath Blizzard. They sure screwed that up when they began adding chocolate in with the heath and ice cream. It is overpowering… too much. The original Heath Blizzard with simply ice cream and heath was perfect. And if you ask them why they changed it, they’ll tell you they’ve always done it that way. They won’t believe otherwise. Gee, I’m old as dirt. ;)
I can’t comment on the «food» items because my brain refuses to engage in the period that far back in time when I did try it and wasn’t the least bit impressed. Let’s judge DQ by the ice cream and leave it at that.

I haven’t been here in about a year due to traveling a lot, it seemed as though the staff I was accustomed to was out or gone during my visit this past week, I ordered a large Sunday I received… a medium sundae in a large container… maybe that employee was new? Or maybe it was a miss that day :-/

Unbelievably slow service! The drive thru would’ve been faster but we wanted to sit outside and enjoy our dessert. We waited for our treats longer than it took us to actually enjoy them. Sure, it was yummy but I doubt I’ll go back… Waiting close to fifteen minutes for ice cream is just crazy. I’ll just buy ice cream from the grocery store next time.

It’s ice cream from my childhood. I took my mom for some sweet treats and got a hot fudge sundae. It took 2 days fir me to eat the whole sweet delicious cup. You’ve been to one, you’ve been to them all, but gosh darn it, they have some tasty eats.

Who orders for you? No chocolate soft serve at all? Seriously? Sign says looking for management and now I see why.