From the Dairy Queen FAQ:
How come my Dilly Bar doesn’t have a curl in the middle?
Some Dilly bars are made by the staff of DQ stores and those have a curl. Others are manufactured for those DQ restaurants that do not have the space or the staff to make their own. Those Dilly Bars are packaged in clear plastic and do not have a curl.
The manufacturing equipment is not able to duplicate the trademark curl on our Dilly Bars. There are positives, however, to the manufacturing process. We can offer our Dilly Bars in additional flavours, including Mint and no sugar added.
I have no idea what the “curl in the middle” of a Dilly bar is, as I was never allowed a Dilly bar at Dairy Queen. But it’s nice to know we still need humans to put it there.
(There was a Dairy Queen across the street from my high school; its parking lot was the place where fights were held: “Jimmy is fighting Danny in the Dairy Queen parking lot after school, pass it on!”)
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I really need to know why you
I really need to know why you weren't allowed to have a dilly bar from Dairy Queen. Were you a strict buster bar family?
It’s possible I’m making this
It’s possible I’m making this up, but my impression from my childhood was that the “prepared” Dairy Queen desserts were looked down on by my family, in favour of cones and sundaes “made to order.” It certainly never occurred to me to order one. But maybe this was a prison of my own creation.
The curl is the Q in Dairy
The curl is the Q in Dairy Queen :) the manufacturing process can easily add this by moving the machine in a triangle in either direction :) I used to work at Dairy Queen. The curl is meant to be a Q
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