DQ’s Chocolate Dilly Bars
Life is like a box of chocolate …
~ Forest Gump
Believe it or not, last week I bought a total of 72 Dilly Bars! It is a good thing that Dairy Queen had a BOGO (buy-one-get-one) promotion or else it would have costs me quite a bit. I bought them as a treat for all the people in Best Buy who had so kindly paid for my farewell lunches. I think they all liked it.
This is my blog on the famous Dilly Bar from DQ.
The Dilly Bar is a delicious vanilla ice milk dipped in chocolate flavoured coating. Did you know that the Dilly is celebrating it’s 50th anniversary this year. Yup, it was first made in the year 1955.
Each box of Dilly Bars come with twelve 100ml bars. A box normally costs $16 (tax included). Effectively, with the BOGO, each box is about only $8. It’s a good thing they have a promotion at this time!
Most people does not know this but the Dilly Bars are made on the premises of each Dairy Queen. That sort of explains the twirly deal on each bar. It’s the twirly deal that makes the Dilly Bar so famous.
Oh, all this blogging is making me want one. Bye for now … gotta to get one from the fridge!
NUTRITIONAL FACTS
Serving Size: 3.0 oz. Calories: 210 Calories from Fat: 120 Total Fat: 13 grams Saturated Fat: 7 grams Cholesterol: 10 milligrams Sodium: 75 milligrams Carbohydrates: 21 grams Fiber: 0 grams Sugars: 17 grams Protein: 3 grams
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yeah it tastes great!!!!!DQ at Anderson road, richmonds gonna have ‘buy 1 get 1 free’ this promotion on 6 november’06.
Hi Sandy: Thanks for the tip! I’ll be there on Monday and pick up a few packs on the way back from work. How did you know of the 1-for-1 deal? I can’t find it on the DQ website.
anytime you want dilly bars or sandwiches, I can hook you up for BOGO, even if its not on special *winks* just give me enough notice
Hi there , im was wonderin , will u be makin dilly bars in other flavors besides vanilla & do u have dilly bar merchandise such as hats, flip flops male brefs, bikini’s?
man i can’t wait for this answer lol
Hi just came across your Dilly bar blog. I think it’s neat that you like them so much. I also have a fondness for them as my Dad invented the dilly bar when he was just a boy in Kansas and named it too, not too many know that fact. He use to ride his horse down to the Dairy Queen in the evenings to get them both a ice cream cone. Well the owner of the Dairy Queen liked my Dad and his horse, so one evening he was watching the owner cleaning out his soft serve machine and tossing out all the ice cream, well that gave my Dad idea, why waste good ice cream. So he asked the owner if he could try something and he said sure. So my Dad got a cookie sheet tray and placed blobs of ice cream on the cookie sheet and then place it all in the deep freeze, as the ice cream was stiffing up he took the tray back out and stuck popsicle stick into each one and back to the freezer they went. The next evening my Dad showed back up with his horse and went inside to check on the ice cream. He pulled them out of the freezer and the owner asked now what? That’s when my Dad went over to the hard chocolate dipping sauce and dipped one of the bars in pulled it out and took a bit, looked up at the owner and said that’s one dilly of a bar, and that’s how it all started.
[...] I meanwhile, have been trying out an allergy elimination diet, working with my new naturopath to try another stab at understanding why my body defies the law of caloric physics. While I sat with a head of raw cauliflower on the table in front of me, literally, on the table in front of me, (who needs to pretend raw cauliflower needs the pretense of plated presentation?) the boys wondered aloud why I wasn’t eating what they were eating. Cheerily, I mumbled something about eating more than my share of flour and sugar in my lifetime and the boys, wanting to help, wanted to find something to blame for my current list of limitations – (“Like, you can’t even eat Dilly Bars!) [...]
dilly bars r so yumalishess and there the bomb
I worked at a DQ as my first real job at age 15. My very first task was to dip the dilly bars. The dilly bar maker had already made the ice cream part and inserted the stick. Then they went into the freezer to get nice and hard. I then took each one, dipped it in a moat of chocolate, clipped the bottom of the stick to a clothes pin that was mounted on a circular track parallel to and above the moat of chocolate. That top ring spun around with clips at the correct intervals, so that by the time the first one came back around, it was dry and ready to slide into the paper then back into the freezer.
I haven’t been to a DQ in a long time, but the last time I was there, the dilly bars were NOT made on site. They were in a box, from a factory. Made me sad. I didn’t think any of them made them on site any more, but I wasn’t sure.
I’m trying to find out the history of the dilly bar. Does anyone know where the first one was made?
Hi J: Checkout the comment from Brenda (a few comment above this). According to Brenda, her dad invented it. Interesting read. The first one is made in Kansas.
Ben
Perhaps Brenda’s comment “just a boy in Kansas and [he]named it too,” explains the first paper wraper I remember. It had Dilly wearing a cowboy hat and cowboy boots, he had eyes, with the swirl serving as his nose! I had a small plastic pin with this Dilly on it, proclaiming “I’m a Dilly!” If someone has one, it would be great to see an on line photo of it!
For an image of the Dilly Bar wrapper, see:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollywoodplace/2947795315/
Bull Brenda….The Dilly Bar was “invented” at Dairy Queen 24 8th St S Moorhead, MN 56560 (218) 233-3221 Everyone, even the DQ big wigs, know this answer.
kiltt you brendaa!
Supposedly the Moorhead location is also the most successful per capita.
I and girlfriend stopped at the Raton NM DQ and got dilly bars.
Factory made now…no characteristic dimple showing “dipped”.
Boring and thin chocolate…very disappointing, and we both grew up on Dillys
Yet all the advertising has the dimple of hallmark “hand dipped”. False advertising, sad to say. DQ needs to know some of us are upset by that.
Patrick…i remember there was a time last yearwhen it there were boxes that were factory made but its only in a box of 6, it was just for a month or 2, But in Vancouver, its still made from scratch
Ben..anytime u want dilly or sandwiches , I can hook you up with BOGO, even if its not on special, just gv me enough notice **winks**
Hi Bulakz: Oh really? That’s wonderful. We always go buy a couple of boxes when we get the BOGO coupons. I sometimes buy them and stuff it in the office fridge and everyone just love it. Two boxes will go a matter of an hour once people knows about it! We’ll let you know next time we want some. Thanks a lot! Ben
My mother in law invented the Dilly Bar while she managed a Dairy Queen in Atchison, Kansas by Atchison High School. She dipped the ice cream in chocolate and said “That’s the dilly of a bar”. While the owner of the shop someone by the name of “john” probably professes to be inventor, he is dead wrong. This was in 1954. And so goes the legend of “The Dilly Baar”. Give credit where credit is due! Her name was Verdell Benshoof Sommers
wow i didn’t know these were invented i want one. my nickname has been dilly since the moment i was born cause it has my name in the ice cream i want one even more.
Hi Dilly: Don’t you have DQ in England? Ben
I love Dilly Bars but I find the sticks are too short and I’m always getting chocolate on my hand.
most dilly bars in Canada are made in the store, you can make a comment to the Manager so they will make sure to tell the staff not to push the stick all the way in
Good to know, thanks!
I read about this ice cream in the “Cell” by S. King
I see them making these in store all the time in Vancouver anyways. Just as described by Brenda above putting the icecream on baking sheet and freezing and then dipping later. So many invention claims – amusing.
I’m a Buster Bar guy myself, love all the peanuty crunchiness :-)
yeah but i’ve noticed a lot lately that they have stopped putting the twirl on dilly bars? why is this? location, cost, untrained ice cream makers?
Actually, the above stories don’t seem to be accurate. The person who invented the Dilly Bar also had the last name “Dilly” and it was named after him. I know this because I know the Dilly family who still have ties to DQ.