Ah, freshly made Dilly Bars, how I love you.
Our local Dairy Queen seems to be having some issues. Their main freezer is broken so they can’t do any cakes (and oh man a dairy queen ice cream cake with the carmelly crunchy center is just one of the very best things a person can eat) and they can’t keep boxes of novelties on hand. This was a major major source of frustration for me until recently.
We’d go there about once a week asking for dilly bars, and every time they’d be all out, or the bars were just then being made, or they only had two left. I got so frustrated we drove to the next town over to get boxes of dilly bars from them. They were disgusting.
The other Dairy Queen sold us boxes that had been made by corporate and sent in. They were the same kind that you can occasionally find in grocery freezers. Made with really heavy ice cream and stuck in that freezer for who knows how long. They were gritty with freezerburn.
The dilly bars from our Dairy Queen were freshly made on the spot with their delicious light soft serve that tastes like ice milk. A dilly bar is huge and when it is a hot summer day I want something light and wonderful, not two solid cups of thick vanilla ice cream.
My Dairy Queen’s broken freezer turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Now we’re just smarter and we call ahead.
