Dairy Queen on South Cedar in Lansing.
Usually when J and I discuss dinner plans, she doesn’t say anything that catches me off guard. When I asked her what she wanted tonight, she answered “ice cream!” OK, I like ice cream, but I haven’t actually wanted ice cream for dinner in twenty years. I compromised…sorta. Since we eventually decided to get a pizza from Marcos for dinner, I suggested we just pick it up then go to DQ and grab something for dessert.
I grew up with Dairy Queen. Soft serve ice cream was actually invented in Kankakee, IL about twenty minutes from where my parents live. The technology was then sold to two guys who opened the first Dairy Queen store in Joliet, IL where I went to college, so there’s always been a Dairy Queen close. Just to give you an idea of how small of a town I grew up, the Dairy Queen near the Interstate was the only “fast food” restaurant within 20 miles, so we ate there often as kids. They had the best crappy burgers and most of my friends had jobs there. My mom even worked there part time after my brother and I were both old enough to go to school. The saddest thing that happened to my town was when the DQ closed and moved five miles north to the next town over. We couldn’t ride our bikes to get Blizzards anymore (good thing I had just turned 16 and got my license).
There are only two DQ in the City of Lansing. There’s a DQ/Orange Julius at the Lansing Mall and there’s the ice cream stand on South Cedar Street. The DQ’s I grew up with are now called Brazzier’s and they have a full menu. The South Lansing location is a seasonal store that only sells DQ’s famous and often imitated soft serve ice cream. Read the rest of this entry »
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