The Blizzard features marshmallow-filled chocolates and graham cracker pieces, all blended into Dairy Queen's signature, super-thick soft serve. ​ S'mores just screams summer, and this treat brings all that flavor to a delectable frozen treat.

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A popular Dairy Queen item is the Blizzard, which is soft-serve mechanically blended with mix-in ingredients such as sundae toppings and/or pieces of cookies, brownies, or candy. It has been a staple on the menu since its introduction in 1985, a year in which Dairy Queen sold more than 100 million Blizzards.

The Blizzard was invented by a franchise owner Samuel Temperato, who owned a whopping 67 DQ locations, came up with the concept after seeing a competitor's ice cream shop selling frozen custard.

S'mores Blizzard Treat | Dairy Queen® Menu.

The delicious treat has always been a staple for the chain, and it's the key to the super popular Dairy Queen Blizzard. While we might have ordered it a million times, there are plenty of things we didn't know about the Blizzard - including the fact that its main ingredient isn't technically ice cream.

To make this DQ Blizzard, all you have to do is blend the ice cream until it's soft and reassembles the texture of soft serve. Once it's smooth enough, add the Oreo cookies and continue to mix until the cookies are crushed and combined with the ice cream.

One of the things that enhances the Blizzard experience is having a variety of textures, and this one really delivers in that department. Oreo cookies, as we all know, are crunchy and chocolatey, and when they are pulverized and mixed with vanilla soft serve, they can make for a tasty Blizzard all by themselves.

The Oxford English Dictionary concludes the term blizzard is likely onomatopoeic, derived from the same sense as blow, blast, blister, and bluster; the first recorded use of it for weather dates to 1829, when it was defined as a "violent blow".

You can refer to a large number of things that you do not like or which annoy you as a blizzard of those things. [written, disapproval]

1985 1985: Blizzard® Treats are introduced.

Where did the name “Dairy Queen®” come from? "Grandpa McCullough", the man who was the driving force behind the creation of Dairy Queen® soft serve, dubbed the store "Dairy Queen®" because he believed his soft serve was a "queen" among dairy products, the epitome of freshness and wholesomeness.