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Submitted by Ryan B
(Only this job would take me to the Wikipedia entry for “Dairy Queen.”)
Dilly Bars were introduced in 1955. Soft-serve ice cream on a stick, dipped in delicious chocolate. There were also other flavors like cherry, butterscotch, and the infamous lime Dilly Bar, which was coated a light green.
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You absolute brute….I am 5,500 miles from the nearest Dairy Queen, and I’m sitting here Jonesing for a Cherry Dilly bar, when I’ve not thought of one for 7 years.
Not that I’m complaining, because these are awesome, but they still make and sell them. I had a cherry one a few months ago.
Is that cherry ice cream and/or cherry dip?
Where??? They only come in chocolate around here….
they used to make them fresh, now they mostly come pre-packaged and taste stale. i count the fresh ones as a nostalgia win since i haven’t come across one in, oh, a decade at least.
Some private-owned Dairy Queens still make them fresh. The one close to where I live does, but it closes every year from October to February.
That is true! I had one about a year ago, and it tottaly scarred me! I could taste the packaging in the ice cream! GROSS! I am a Texas gal and DQ runs through my veins! I think every human should have the satisfaction of coming to a DQ in Texas because……..well……THEY ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!
I worked at dairy Queen in Silverdale, washington a few years back, and we handmade and dipped all of ours. The pre-packaged ones did NOT taste right. They smelled like those giant bouncy ball bins at toys r us. I think we all got in trouble for the fairly severe burns we caused ourselves by sticking our fingers into the boiling-hot cherry and butterscotch dip.
Sadly, though, the lime one has ceased to exist.
when i was a kid there was always a contest between an oreo blizzard and a cherry dilly bar… more often the dilly bar would win! and i would win too!
DQ trademark curl
They got so much smaller over the years.
And my Dairy Queen only has the basic one. I never knew they even came in different flavours.
I never heard of the lime kind- I worked in a dairy queen though and these were fun to make. I love the cherry sip sauce and butterscotch..and would go over board with this stuff lol!!
*thud* Oh no, my present day nemesis – the lucious DQ Dilly Bar! If I could accumulate 11 cents on any day during the summer of 67,’ I would hand it directly over to our neighborhood Dairy Queen. Oh, vanilla and chocolaty goodness, I miss you! However, Dilly Bars are definitely dangerous for my present day metabolism. *sigh* Non-fat yogurt has replaced you on my lips, but you’ll forever have a special place in my heart.
Oh yeah baby the hand-dipped Dilly Bar.
They’re still around, but most Dairy Queens only carry the tiny little pre-packaged ones.
The days of making sure I had 86 cents in my car for a hand-dipped butterscotch Dilly Bar are bygones, at least in my hometown.
*is a little bit sad now
How did I forget to sign in? D:
It… Looks like… Crap on a stick. :6
Like the ‘cow pie’ that comes from a real cow.
BLECH!
you poor, sheltered thing. Have one, then tell us what you think!
OMG, Dilly Bars are LOVE! The butterscotch ones were pretty dang good, but I always loved the classic chocolate. make me yearn for the days when I lived in a town with a DQ.
*tear* My grandma, now deceased, would take my brother and I to Dairy Queen and she’d always get one.
I used to eat these all the time when I was kid, right up until the DQ in our town closed.
After moving away as an adult I discovered another one only to find that Dilly Bars don’t have a curl anymore!
On another note, I’ve never seen one in any other flavor besides the chocolate coating with vanilla ice cream.
AAaaaah, here in England we have McDonalds, we have KFC, we have Pizza Hut, we have Burger King…but I’d trade ‘em all for a Dairy Queen…the lime ones are good, but, oh, I love the cherry ones….
My mother who passed away used to love the butterscotch ones although she never got them very often because the only dairy queen close to us that had them was like a 2 1/2 hr drive away.
I lost my first tooth eating a Dilly Bar.
***droooool***!!!
My mom always took me and my little sister for a Dilly Bar each while she got herself a Buster Bar.
Good times, good times.
My kids used to call them Pig-cicles, because they had a curly tail on one side. Last week I went through the drive-up at dairy queen and almost couldn’t rememer the right name.
How fortunate to have that uniqueness – and funny, too!
I realize that I may be the only one that cares but I implore you: don’t buy one unless it has the curly on top!! That curl is trademarked by DQ and, after spending literally hours in front of that damned soft-serve machine as a teenager perfecting the curly-top technique, it infuriates me that the whippersnappers they have running the machine these days can’t even be bothered to put it on anymore. What kind of respect is that for an American tradition like this one?
Then again, perhaps this is just one more manifestaion of my CDO (it’s a condition kind of like OCD except the letters are in alphabetical order. Like they should be.)
Because Compulsive Disorder Obsessive makes tons of sense.
Loved the dilly bars when i was growing up in the 60s and 70s, but mostly I loved the Crunch Cone… vanilla ice cream on a cone and they’d hold it in a wheel with scoops all along the inside of the wheel, and it’d turn and drop candy and crunchy peanuts over the ice cream… I haven’t seen those in years. Man those were great.
Yay! My First Submission! So much greatness, cherry was my favorite
I remember, in the days before most folks had air-conditioning, there were two ways for the whole family to cool off–go to the movies, or go to the Dairy Queen. (Which was a walk-up at the time.) I myself was partial to the grape Mr. Mistys and hot fudge sundaes, though a Dilly Bar was more than acceptable when funds for ice cream were getting scarce. (A common occurrence at the end of a week-long heat spell, naturally.)
It was always a sure sign of the end of summer when the local Dairy Queen started selling 6-packs of Dilly Bars at a discount. I think it was to use up the last of the ice cream before the store shut down for the winter.
What did I get when I clicked on the link? An ad for a Klondike bar! Thanks, Google!
I worked at the Westbrook, CT Dairy Queen this summer, and can say that they still make their Dilly Bars (as well as cakes, buster bars, waffle bowls/cones, and DQ sandwiches) on site, so they’re always fresh.
As for the question about if the cherry one was cherry ice cream; no, it was vanilla ice cream dipped in cherry dip.
Buster bars! I loved those. First you ate the chocolate and
peanuts, then it was like a dilly bar for while, then some fudge
and peanuts, then everything started falling of the stick.
Excuse me. I have to go google the whereabouts of the nearest
DQ.
I worked at the Dairy Queen the summer I was 15 and we used to make them fresh each day. I used to love those things. Thank you to the OP.
I spent almost two years making these at DQ….worst two years of my life.
My DQ was nasty, though. Ours would sit in the back freezer for weeks before they came out to the front display freezer. They aren’t as “Fresh” as you would think.
When I worked at a DQ years ago as a teen, we made them in the store. The cone coating ( which is what the ice cream is/was dipped in) was the best. We had butterscotch, but I don’t think we had cherry. The best part though was making the cakes, I loved making the cakes.
I never liked dilly bars. They made my teeth cold when I bit into them! I would always forget and get one when we went to Dairy Queen, though.
Dilly Bars!!! I had completely forgotten those. Once a month or so in the summer I would scrounge up enough energy to walk to DQ and get one with my allowance, then sit inside where it was cool and try to make it last as long as possible.
Dilly Bars don’t seem that old to me. I worked at a DQ for 2 years and made so many of them it wasn’t even funny.