Dairy Queen Blizzards

I also don't recommend they figure out a way to enjoy meth.

Hey, there's nothing to figure out when it comes to enjoying it. The "figuring out" part comes when you realized you smoked/snorted/banged your rent money. :noway:

You obviously don't have an addiction to such things.

Isn't the "serving size" of ice cream ridiculously small?

I just had a serving size of Ben & Jerry's...the 4 ounce mini one. It was great, I think. I probably could eat two of them, but four ounces was fine.

I wish there was a DQ near my job, but Ben & Jerry's is not a bad substitute.

ahh yes the "addiction" train ..that one is never late…..

Yes, the false "addiction" claims are almost as annoying as top-posting. :laugh:

I look at places like Dairy Queen just like I would a drug pusher. If I'm not careful, it will ruin my health. Even worse, Dairy Queen and Baskin Robbin's is literally across the street from my apartment complex. :frown:

can't be serious…

yea, dairy queen and your neighborhood crack dealer are totally on the same level ….

Are you sure the poster meant crack dealer? From my experience, only *legal* drug sales reps are actually *pushers* of drugs. Drugs like crack and meth tend to sell themselves, no pushing needed. :laugh:

yea, but you still have someone on the corner "pushing" them …I just wish people would not make blanket idiotic statements like this ….oh well...

I've never seen a drug "pusher," but I've known many dealers from back in the day. I remember having several dealers on speed-dial, just hoping one would come through. I do not recall anyone ever standing on a corner and making offers. but then, I've always lived in the 'burbs. Maybe it's different other places...

. It's depressing when I begin to think about how many of us are not even really eating real food.

if I can eat it- it's real.

Give me frozen yogurt from sweet frog any day! (With reece's cups and butterfinger...mmmmmmmm)

I...may have had that for lunch today. *looks around guiltily*

I had frozen yogurt for lunch yesterday. And I still hit my macros and got 5 servings of veg. :drinker:

. It's depressing when I begin to think about how many of us are not even really eating real food.

if I can eat it- it's real.

my kids like to eat imaginary food sometimes. And other times they make food out of play-doh. They don't eat it though.

I love that dairy queen has marshmallow cream... marshmallow blizzards and milkshakes FTW.

I used to get an extra large reeses blizzard 2 to 3 times per week. I had no idea it was 1000 calories! They tasted so good, but now that I actually know about all the garbage in them I have no desire to eat them anymore. I'm willing to indulge in good tasting food that has lots of sugar and fat. But I see no reason to eat stuff that has artificial trans fats and other artificial chemicals.

. It's depressing when I begin to think about how many of us are not even really eating real food.

if I can eat it- it's real.

my kids like to eat imaginary food sometimes. And other times they make food out of play-doh. They don't eat it though.

*sheepish* I tried play-doh when I was a kid. Very salty.

Play-Doh tastes yucky. But those markers that smell like fruit taste like the fruit they smell like. YUMMY. (C'mon, I was 8!)

I remember those!

Why don't you save your comments for a subject you know something about?

Sadly, addiction is something I know all too well.

Then why would you put down somebody else for having the problem?

I'm not putting anyone down. I only said that claiming DQ Blizzards are "addictive" is inaccurate. Being honest about facts is in NO WAY a "put down" of any person.

If you think you are addicted to DQ Blizzards, tell me what the withdrawal syndrome is. What are your symptoms when you go without a Blizzard? Do your hands shake? Do your shoulders heave involuntarily? Do you get headaches? Sleepy? Suicidal thoughts? Do your dopamine and serotonin levels crash? Do you feel angry just because someone said hello to you?

What are your symptoms that tell you that you're suffering from Blizzard withdrawal?




ETA: Fixed the quotes...PLEASE put your comments at the bottom, not the top. Top-quoting makes it very difficult to follow the conversation.

A few times a year I will get a small or a mini banana split blizzard - no chocolate. So yummy, but so bad for any type of calorie restriction.

I used to get an extra large reeses blizzard 2 to 3 times per week. I had no idea it was 1000 calories! They tasted so good, but now that I actually know about all the garbage in them I have no desire to eat them anymore. I'm willing to indulge in good tasting food that has lots of sugar and fat. But I see no reason to eat stuff that has artificial trans fats and other artificial chemicals.

They don't add any garbage to them. I don't know where you heard this, but codes enforcement would be all over any restaurant that took garbage and put it in the food.

Just photoshop a blizzard into this pic, and you've got yourself a 1st class DQ ad.

I used to get an extra large reeses blizzard 2 to 3 times per week. I had no idea it was 1000 calories! They tasted so good, but now that I actually know about all the garbage in them I have no desire to eat them anymore. I'm willing to indulge in good tasting food that has lots of sugar and fat. But I see no reason to eat stuff that has artificial trans fats and other artificial chemicals.

They don't add any garbage to them. I don't know where you heard this, but codes enforcement would be all over any restaurant that took garbage and put it in the food.

Just photoshop a blizzard into this pic, and you've got yourself a 1st class DQ ad.

I trash!

I'd eat a garbage blizzard.

There's a lot more to them than you realize. Here are the ingredients for a child sized soft serve (no cone, just the ice cream). I'd guess the milkfat and cornsyrup have something to do with the 140 cal per 92g. Add in candy, hot fudge/caramel syrup, flavoring etc and the calories are going to add up pretty quickly.

\Dairy Queen Vanilla Soft Serve: Milkfat and nonfat milk, sugar, corn syrup, whey, mono and diglycerides, artificial flavor, guar gum, polysorbate 80, carrageenan, and vitamin A palmitate.

Here's a link to their nutritional info so you can do your own research:

http://www.idq.com/NCPublic/#

Ah yes, the old completely designed and manufactured product made from various chemicals that achieve the goal of a certain flavor and mouthfeel at a price point that maximizes return on investment trick. It's depressing when I begin to think about how many of us are not even really eating real food.

...pink slime anyone?

Unfortunately that is what most people prefer - to not eat real food.

If I am going to splurge, we have a hometown ice cream stand that has been around since the 1950's and they make various flavors of home made ice cream every day, use fresh fruit and hand shaved chocolate for toppings.

They are usually packed with people.

I prefer to eat the real stuff that has been made that way for generations and generations - not some fake ice cream. Yuck.