"Dairy Queen" news and stories

Listen up, fellas: just in case you thought it was ok to satiate your man-sized appetite with a Carl's Jr. Double Guacamole Bacon Burger for lunch, the editors at Men's Health are telling you to think again.

The magazine that is perhaps single-handedly responsible for the American obsession with six-pack abs has combed through all the tiny type of those fast-food nutrition tables and come up with its list of the ten worst fast-food meals in the country.

While many of the revelations are hardly startling (do they really think that anyone who's going to order something called the "Triple Baconator" at Wendy's gives a hoot that it's got 43 grams of saturated fat?), there are a handful of surprises.

Take the Quiznos large Tuna Melt with a side of Cheetos. It might seem smart to opt for heart-healthy tuna over a burger somewhere else, but, smothered in mayo, this sandwich is the caloric equivalent of "eating one whole bag of Chewy Chips Ahoy! Cookies," the editors point out, "making it one of the absolute worst sandwiches in the country."

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The In-N-Out Animal Style. Photo: kaba, Flickr.

It is the stuff of fast-food chain legend: a secret menu known only to those insiders brave enough to order outside the listed menu. Tales of "animal-style fries" and Starbucks' secret "short" size abound, but which of these are real and which will merely earn you a quizzical stare from the cashier?

Ditch the risk of disappointment and become a fast-food insider with Slashfood's list of some top-secret menu items at well-known restaurants near you.

Hooray for the Dairy Queen Blizzard, the dessert that combines ice cream, candy and sometimes even cookies all in one (swiftly melting) creation.

The sweet treat is given even greater pride of place on the DQ menu thanks to its "Blizzard of the Month" feature. Former BoMs have included caramel cheesecake and turtle Oreo (pictured), but it's the divine midnight truffle -- a blend of vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup and truffle bits -- that's enjoying an April shout-out.

If contrasting crunchiness is preferable in the creamy Blizzard, then the softness of the truffle chunks are a bit of a letdown. But if maximum richness is the goal, then their melt-in-your-mouth texture works quite nicely with the smooth chocolatiness of the ice cream. Fight the current heat wave to slurp this sucker down before it turns from a Blizzard into slush.

File this under "durrrr:" Some items on Dairy Queen's new "Sweet Deals" menu will actually cost 8 percent more than buying individual items off the regular menu, reports Consumerist. For example, a grilled chicken wrap which costs $1.39 on the regular menu costs $3 for two on the "Sweet Deals" menu, which was presumably created in response to the recession. That's $0.11 more for each chicken wrap. Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but it does make you wonder whether this was a deliberate on the part of Dairy Queen to squeeze a few extra cents out of customers who aren't exactly thinking about multiplying chicken wrap prices in the drive-through lane. $0.11 times several thousand per day does add up quickly. Or maybe I'm just being paranoid because my savings account interest rate has dropped for the fifth time in four months...

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