American stuff Brits love and hate

My hubby loves rice pilaf (Near East or Zatrain's) and rice-a-roni and he likes Fritos. 

He thinks sweet and salty anything is bogging. 

We've not been to the USA together in years and the last time he went, he was still able to eat dairy. So he liked a good Dairy Queen Blizzard and Greek Pizza.  But alas, these things will not work now.

Oh gosh my hubby loves blizzards. He was in the states briefly when he was 17 and would eat one every day if his body still metabolised like a 17 year old lol.

He once pulled an awful joke on me. Last summer before I drove he told me a Dairy Queen opened in town and got me so hyped to go only to let me down

Don't you love the little ritual where they hold the blizzard upside down to show how thick it is?  My eyes roll back in my head and I start to slobber like Homer Simpson. 

What kind of town doesn't have a diary queen?  I thought that or a tastee freeze are the first things to open

Don't you love the little ritual where they hold the blizzard upside down to show how thick it is?  My eyes roll back in my head and I start to slobber like Homer Simpson. 

What kind of town doesn't have a diary queen?  I thought that or a tastee freeze are the first things to open

My DQ back home never did that. Are you saying you have one here in England???

If so.. it may be time to move

My DQ back home never did that. Are you saying you have one here in England???

If so.. it may be time to move

My goodness, there's some wishful thinking!  No DQ here in England. I was thinking about when I go back home and have a Heath Bar Blizzard.  I thought the "Hold it upside down " thing was a trademark and they always did it. 

I've always heard , bizarrely, that there's a Diary Queen in Slovenia.  And Thailand is full of Diary Queens and 711s .  As soon as we arrived and I saw the DQ in the Bangkok airport I was stoked !

My goodness, there's some wishful thinking!  No DQ here in England. I was thinking about when I go back home and have a Heath Bar Blizzard.  I thought the "Hold it upside down " thing was a trademark and they always did it. 

I've always heard , bizarrely, that there's a Diary Queen in Slovenia.  And Thailand is full of Diary Queens and 711s .  As soon as we arrived and I saw the DQ in the Bangkok airport I was stoked !

I thought they always did the upside down thing too.

Thailand has Dunkin Donuts too!  Let's all move there!

My goodness, there's some wishful thinking!  No DQ here in England. I was thinking about when I go back home and have a Heath Bar Blizzard.  I thought the "Hold it upside down " thing was a trademark and they always did it. 

I've always heard , bizarrely, that there's a Diary Queen in Slovenia.  And Thailand is full of Diary Queens and 711s .  As soon as we arrived and I saw the DQ in the Bangkok airport I was stoked !

DQ has always done (actually I remember them advertising it for the first time in 1990) since most of them are franchises a lot of the franchise owners disregard the "rules".

And I grew up on 711. I need a Slurpee.

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I was right, there actually is one in Slovenia

http://www.kalamar.si/pdairy.html


Not sure I can sleep at night knowing that I could drive to a DQ in 19 hours.

Lemon Oreos

The PB ones in my Tesco are so expensive I can't bring myself to buy them.

They're not as good as just smearing PB on regular Oreos, to be honest.

My goodness, there's some wishful thinking!  No DQ here in England. I was thinking about when I go back home and have a Heath Bar Blizzard.  I thought the "Hold it upside down " thing was a trademark and they always did it. 

I've always heard , bizarrely, that there's a Diary Queen in Slovenia.  And Thailand is full of Diary Queens and 711s .  As soon as we arrived and I saw the DQ in the Bangkok airport I was stoked !

Sigh. I've been thinking of blizzards all day long lol

In my hometown, there is an excellent ice cream place called Dairy Dock (setup similar to a Tastee Freeze). Locally owned too. DQ is great, but this place is even better. Mint chocolate chip flurries, chocolate malt milkshakes.... yum. In summer there's almost always a line.

Can't beat American ice cream, in my opinion. Not that British ice cream is bad, but I've just found most of it to be mediocre. I did have a really good milkshake from Ed's Easy Diner in Birmingham once though.

Oh yeah, our DQ always held the Blizzards upside down.

Ours used to also sell off in the freezer (where they sold the take home items like Buster Bars ,Dilly Bars, ice cream sandwiches) - bags of 'mistakes' - so if they screwed up an order, they would still sell it off.  They weren't labelled so you never knew what you got, but oh, it was fun!

Apparently there is no cherry dip anymore at DQ?  I'm gutted if that's the case, because I always loved a cherry dipped cone! 

Here comes Phatbeetle from the alternate universe!  What's a cherry dipped cone?  Sounds nice but Ive never heard of it.  Must be another Northern thing.

Here comes Phatbeetle from the alternate universe!  What's a cherry dipped cone?  Sounds nice but Ive never heard of it.  Must be another Northern thing.

So glad I am keeping up my standards!

It is/was a hard shell cherry flavoured coating - it was a liquid and when it hit the cold ice cream, it turned into a hard coating.  The DQ chocolate dip is the same, but chocolate flavoured obviously!  (but maybe you don't know about this either?)

I know all about the chocolate shell that they dipped the cones in, just never saw cherry.  Was it red?

Bright red, full of nice red American approved chemicals