Welcome To Case's Column
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.
In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
There's The Texas Dairy Queen --- And Then There's Everyone Else's
If you've ever stopped in at a Dairy Queen in the state of Texas..........and then stopped in at a Dairy Queen in Oklahoma, then you should notice that there's a big difference in menu choices. For a specific reason, it comes down to franchising.
Back in 1947, the folks in Illinois who actually founded the entire franchise had allowed Rolly Klose of Austin to franchise his soon-to-be chain in the Capital City. And Klose wanted a local flavor to his DQ, which would start doing things like hamburgers before other DQ locations elsewhere in the nation. Because Texans wanted to do things differently, the mid-1970s saw new items on Dairy Queen's menu here in the heart of Tejas. We dared, didn't we? The burger concepts you now see in the Lone Star State began to show up, along with chicken-fried steak fingers, tacos, and the Dude sandwich (for the uninitiated, that's a chicken-fried steak sandwich). The bad news was, by the end of the 1970s, DQ changed their French fry recipe, as they previously used salted crinkle-cut fries. That was the very first order of fries your writer experienced right around 1971. I miss that. 
They changed that to a more bland fry choice. They're not near as good. Now, you can still get things like onion rings to side with any sandwich you choose. In my opinion, a Texas DQ is far superior to those in other states. It just offers a lot more. We still have to deal with oddly-placed drive-thru going through the part of the parking lot where many patrons are just trying to get into the building. 
At least, it's like that at the older locations, not so much the newer ones.
One thing that doesn't change with any Dairy Queen, in or out of Texas, is the ice cream. All of the dairy choices for dessert are the same all across the board, as Dairy Queens based in Minneapolis (long since moved from Illinois) are focusing much more on dessert treats than anything else. Their Minnesota menu, with limited burger, sandwich, and chicken finger choices, are seen in any state not named Texas. True story. I'm basically preparing you for when you jump over that state line and you happen to see a DQ and you discover that that menu ain't what you saw in Texas. One thing which still remains consistent is that delicious soft-serve vanilla dreamy ice cream cone.
Once upon a 2019, I cooked up a chickenscratch on Dairy Queen's identity crisis with their preparation of hamburgers in Texas, but you can also point to what I've alluded to thus far in this post. Goes back to the ice cream, because that is what still defines DQ, what with the popularity of the Blizzard dessert.
There's Texas Dairy Queen, and then there's Minnesota Dairy Queen. Big difference. So, you can just get ya a Dilly Bar. Hey, why not?
Sometimes, you have to stick with what you really know.
Back in 1947, the folks in Illinois who actually founded the entire franchise had allowed Rolly Klose of Austin to franchise his soon-to-be chain in the Capital City. And Klose wanted a local flavor to his DQ, which would start doing things like hamburgers before other DQ locations elsewhere in the nation. Because Texans wanted to do things differently, the mid-1970s saw new items on Dairy Queen's menu here in the heart of Tejas.
We dared, didn't we? The burger concepts you now see in the Lone Star State began to show up, along with chicken-fried steak fingers, tacos, and the Dude sandwich (for the uninitiated, that's a chicken-fried steak sandwich). The bad news was, by the end of the 1970s, DQ changed their French fry recipe, as they previously used salted crinkle-cut fries. That was the very first order of fries your writer experienced right around 1971. I miss that. They changed that to a more bland fry choice. They're not near as good. Now, you can still get things like onion rings to side with any sandwich you choose. In my opinion, a Texas DQ is far superior to those in other states. It just offers a lot more. We still have to deal with oddly-placed drive-thru going through the part of the parking lot where many patrons are just trying to get into the building. At least, it's like that at the older locations, not so much the newer ones.One thing that doesn't change with any Dairy Queen, in or out of Texas, is the ice cream. All of the dairy choices for dessert are the same all across the board, as Dairy Queens based in Minneapolis (long since moved from Illinois) are focusing much more on dessert treats than anything else. Their Minnesota menu, with limited burger, sandwich, and chicken finger choices, are seen in any state not named Texas.
True story. I'm basically preparing you for when you jump over that state line and you happen to see a DQ and you discover that that menu ain't what you saw in Texas. One thing which still remains consistent is that delicious soft-serve vanilla dreamy ice cream cone. Once upon a 2019, I cooked up a chickenscratch on Dairy Queen's identity crisis with their preparation of hamburgers in Texas, but you can also point to what I've alluded to thus far in this post. Goes back to the ice cream, because that is what still defines DQ, what with the popularity of the Blizzard dessert.
There's Texas Dairy Queen, and then there's Minnesota Dairy Queen. Big difference. So, you can just get ya a Dilly Bar. Hey, why not?
Sometimes, you have to stick with what you really know.
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DQ is still Texas' stop sign. They used to have over a thousand Texas locations, but today, that number is closer to 600.Posted 07-31-2023 at 07:01 PM by case44
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There are some sizable Texas towns................which no longer have a DQ. If you live in Corsicana (where a Dairy Queen location on I-45 got caught up in bankruptcy and was forced to close along with a few other locations in Texas), then you'll have to drive up to Ennis if you want your steak fingers or your Blizzard. It's a crying shame. Dairy Queen needs to make a small-town Texas comeback.
Oh, and there was one in tiny Valley View, TX, that I used to stop at for a vanilla cone after coming back from Marietta, OK, for some McGehee's catfish. It's now closed. The end of an era in a small Texas town.Posted 09-03-2023 at 04:29 PM by case44
