What’s the story of your first Blizzard Treat?

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Hey fans! I love hearing about how crazy you are for Blizzard treats. Every time I get an email from one of you I get super duper excited. I recently got and email from someone that remembers his first experience with our beloved Blizzard treat, dating back to 1985.

“In 1985, we were driving back from Alaska. Canada has a DQ in every town, so we stopped at the first one we came to and found the newest treat, a Blizzard treat. Mine was a Reeses. It was so good that we stopped twice every day for a week. Now that was traveling in style. Loved them ever since.”

So, fans, I’d love to hear the story of your first Blizzard treat experience. Tell me in the comment box below, and maybe next month I’ll feature your story!

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Not sure what my very first one was, but I LOVED the nerds ones when I was younger. I wish they were still around!

I’m 70 years old, so I guess you can say it’s been a long time since my first visit to DQ. Many years have passed , so I don’t remember but everything is so good. yummy

It was the Peanut Buster Parfait! The sweetness, the crunch, the cold, the way the chocolate wraps around those peanuts making them warm. It has everything your senses need, with a salty bite, then a smooth burst of creamy chill to take the pain away.

A dairy queen was added to the gas station by my house, I’ve always bought ice cream cakes from dairy queen. Two weeks ago I stopped for gas and tasted my first blizzard. It was a brownie one…….MMMMMM I’m a chocoholic anyway….and I am 53 years old……who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks….oh by the way I just finished my second blizzard…..French silk pie…..MMMMMM!

I LOVE Chocolate blizzards with Reese’s Peanut butter cups. I go about every other week and sometimes in between:). I have been going so long that they know me and start to make it before I even say thats what I want. They are awesome at my DQ.

I worked for dairy queen when I was 16 and that is when I had my first blizzard. I love the snickers blizzard and the oreo one too! That was the best summer when I worked there!!

My first blizzard was Nerds. My mom never had to ask me what I wanted because I always got that and nothing else. I really wish they were still around. I do have to admit I cheat now and buy soft backed quartes from my local DQ and go home and mix in my own nerds and Im 25 yrs old now!!! You guys really should bring back the nerds!!!

Don’t exactly remember my first blizzard but I tell you what, I love this time of year because you now have the pumpkin pie blizzard. I have everyone at work hooked on them. We have what we call blizzard Wednesday and we all get our blizzards that day. We sure make the Dairy Queen employee busy that day

I don’t remember my very first blizzard but I tell you what, I love this time of year because you have the pumpkin pie blizzard now. I have everyone at work hooked on these. We have what we call blizzard Wednesday. On that day I’m sure we keep the Dairy Queen employee very busy

I was 12 years old I had my tounsels taken out I was so miserable and I felt like no knew how I felt…..Well my dad went with my mom and they brought my very first BLIZZARD!!!!!The flavor I believe was the HEATHBAR it was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was the middle of July and at that time we were leaving down south….

My cousins and I were with my Grandpa Pete, going through the drive-thru in Portland, OR. None of us had tried one either. So we looked at the menu (all of us being under the age of 6) and thought cookies and candies sounded great- because it must have combined all of the cookies and candies in the world into one treat. My grandpa was hard of hearing, did know what a blizzard was, thought we said something else…. So sure enough- my Grandpa says to the person at the window: ‘I would like to get 5 Cookies & Candies Lizzards.’
It was hilarious. The employee started cracking up and said she would surprise us each with something different. mine happened to be cookies and creme. Which is still my favorite to this day.

My favorite is Peanut buster parfait blizzard, but can’t seem to get them around here! Because we don’t have a DQ here gotta drive too far! Seems a big college town like Tuscaloosa Alabama could have one. But no!!!!

I was 6. My cousins and I were with my Grandpa going through the drive-thru in Portland, OR. None of us had been there before. So we looked at the menu and thought cookies and candies sounded great- because it must have combined all of the cookies and candies in the world into one treat. My grandpa was hard of hearing and didn’t know what a blizzard was. So sure enough- he says to the person at the window: I would like to get 5 Cookies & Candies Lizzards.
It was hilarious. The employee started cracking up and said she would surprise us each with something different. mine happened to be Oreo. Which is still my favorite to this day.

I was 3 months pregnant, and it was the chocolate covered cherry blizzard. I then had to have one at least once a week. Yes, there were caloric cutbacks in other areas but well worth it. Still one of my favorites.

my first blizzard was the oreo BLIZZARD
OHHH MYY GOSHH it was soo good and i shared it with my BFF
it had an explosion of cookies and ice creamm
YUMMMMM

My sister got me my first Heath Blizzard in 1986 and it was the best one I’ve ever had! Sure, every one since has been delicious but that first one was made with the candy ground very fine which made the flavor blend better with the ice cream. I compare each one I eat with that first one!

don’t remember exactly when but “living in Cleveland, Ohio” we have a radio station called
the “Buzzard” it’s call letters are WMMS and they put together for an on the air promotion- a “Buzzard Blizzard” it was pecans and bannanas and strawberrys in chocolate soft serve- AHHHHHHHHHH
my first and still my fav!

I love the Whoppers candy, so when I went to Dairy Queen once a long time ago and they had a thing called a Whopper Blizzard, I just had to have one.
It was the best. I wish it could be brought back.
I still make my own though. I crush up the whoppers and add them to some ice cream. Not the same, but gets the job done.
I have my kids hooked on the now as well.

In mid-August, 1985, I went back to school at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. I went back to school earlier because I was working as a Resident Adviser that year. One of my fellow RA’s, Ron, told everyone about a new treat the local DQ had. The Blizzard was as awesome as my friend promised us. I would usually order the Heath Bar Blizzard and was completely hooked. Even if no one else wanted to go, my friend, Ron, and I would take a walk nearly everyday to buy them. I haven’t seen Ron since that year, but I still get Blizzards any chance I get! (Although now my favorite is M&M made with chocolate ice cream :=)

It was an incredibly hot day and I had spent it fishing in a canoe. It was about 3 pm when I pulled into DQ. A cute waitress asked if I wanted to try some new ice cream treat. It was a banana split Blizzard and I knew right away that this was perfection. 25 years later, I’m still knocking down banana split Blizzards

Oh- so many memories. I was working at a Indiana DQ when these were introduced. The trick to a real Blizzard was handing it to the customer upside down without it plopping on the counter. I made so many Blizzards that summer!I’m short and the machine sat at a high level and would throw ice cream at my neck and chest. I would come home with ice cream caked on my apron and my mom would have a fit! But, it sure was fun creating our own Blizzards! The best is a Peanut Buster Blizzard – most of these youngin’s don’t know what that is when I ask for it! I just laugh. The hardest to make? Banana Split. Just try handing that one out the window upside down!

I used to ALWAYS get the “Nestle Crunch” blizzard with extra candy but you don’t have that anymore! :(

I don’t remember when my first Blizzard treat was but I know it was a German Chocolate Blizzard. Wow, incredible but hard to find at most DQ’s now. I have to say you really out did your selves when they came up with the Pumpkin Pie Blizzard, it is to die for, OMG. So wish we could have a DQ here in Columbia, TN as we once did. I think I could run it, lol.

My first Blizzard was a Butterfinger Blizzard, and I was with my Grandma. That was several years ago so I don’t remember it exactly, but there you go.

My first Blizzard was a Butterfinger Blizzard, and I was with my Grandma. That was several years ago so I don’t remember it exactly, but there you go. It was really yummy.

I know I have been going to Dairy Queen since I was 6. When we would go to the beach, we would always stop at the only Dairy Queen around which was in Havelock. Later Morehead City got one and I could not wait for the vanilla ice cream cone. Now I have fallen madly inlove with the Banana Cream Pie Blizzard and I do not even like bananas. Now I DO??? AHHHHH the Blizzard!!!

Cathy, I know that our product development team is constantly working on new products, however we’ve not been given any information on the timing of no-sugar added soft serve. We will not have sugar-free soft serve because there are naturally occuring sugars in milk that will always be there. I hope this helps!

This is easy…I was working at my hometown DQ when the blizzard first came out. This was very exciting because it was to be made so we could serve it upside down! Pretty cool back then!

My brother & I both worked for our local DQ when we were teenagers, and he created what I think was the very first blizzard back in the early 80s, a few years before they hit the menu. He mixed soft serve with Butterscotch and pecans using the milkshake mixer. We all had a taste of his wonderful creation, butter pecan soft serve. I worked for a different DQ when they actually started to serving them, we were so busy our soft serve machine couldn’t keep up.

I loved “Buzzard Blizzards” growing up in the Cleveland area. The ingredients aren’t quite what I remember though.

Back in the 70′s our local radio station WMMS 100.7 in Cleveland Ohio teamed up with DQ to make 2 different blizzards which were called the Buzzard Blizzards, but for the life of me I do not remember what went into them…The local DQ is willing to make them up if I can provide the ingredient combinations…I’ve searched over and over on the internet, but there is nothing noting this…If anyone remembers the ingredients, would you please list them on here…My mouth waters thinking about having one again….Thanks

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