Dairy Queen

          We were out driving around and saw a Dairy Queen. Josh had never eaten there. Sure, he'd been there for the ice cream and other goodies, but never for a meal. So with a little hesitation we decided to give it a try. Besides, they had been advertising a special price on their quarter pound cheeseburger and fries.
           Being 70 years old it's easy to think of Dairy Queen as being an old fashioned type chain. In many ways they are. Not all of their 4500 locations offer food or as they call it, brazier food (funny story about this; back in high school Mark knew someone who, in all honesty, wanted to know how DQ was advertising brassiere food). If you're looking for one near you, check out their web site at http://www.dairyqueen.com/. Be aware that not all locations sell food so look for one that is tagged brazier.

Burgers

          You would expect DQ to be like most other fast food style restaurants and in many ways they are. But when we came in, and maybe this was because it was a slow day, but we placed our order at the counter and took a seat. The burgers were then cooked for us. It was also pretty obvious that the fries were dropped for our order as well.

          We don't mind waiting a little if my burger is being cooked after we order. That means the food, especially the fries, aren't sitting around wilting under heat lamps. 

          Our next surprise was when we took a bite. These are better than your average fast food burgers. No, they're not spectacular but there was honest to goodness beef flavor and, for a frozen burger, it was juicy as well. And the fries, these were very good fries. Oh, sure, they're your basic frozen restaurant fries but these must have been cooked in a brand new batch of grease because they were tender and tasty.

          Now we probably won't go out of our way to munch down on DQ burgers again anytime soon but if the occasion were to arise we would probably not hesitate to try out some of their other burgers (and of course a Blizzard).