Only Dairy Queen Locations in This State Serve Fried Steak Fingers and Tacos (2024)

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Only Dairy Queen Locations in This State Serve Fried Steak Fingers and Tacos? ›

Luckily for fans in the Lone Star state, steak fingers are very much still on the menu in Texas.

Growing up in Oklahoma, they were a staple on diner and drive-in menus. For those of you that did not grow up in Oklahoma-Texas cattle country, and are scratching your heads, steak fingers are essentially chicken fried steak strips, served with white gravy for dipping.

The new Carolina Reaper Tacos are available only at DQ restaurants in Texas.

Although DQ soft-serve products are the same no matter where you go throughout the U.S. and Canada, Texas DQ locations have their own unique food system, Texas Country Foods, which the rest of the country does not offer. The DQ Chicken Strip Basket was developed in Texas.

Today, Dairy Queen boasts 5,700 locations across 30 countries, with over 4,300 establishments in the U.S. alone. In fact, Vermont remains the only state without a Dairy Queen.

Since the finger steak is Idaho's signature food, you can expect that every Idahoan has an opinion about the best place to find finger steaks. For some, that's their mother's kitchen but for others, it's a favorite restaurant.

While there are almost 4,300 DQ locations in the United States, Texas has the most locations of any of them, with nearly 600. The Texas restaurants have a huge menu to match, including food items not found elsewhere — like the chain's popular steak fingers.

There's no clear reason that Dairy Queen is yet to open in the Green Mountain State. In fact, the company has explored the possibility in the past, although it seems nothing was ever able to materialize.

Whataburger is an American regional fast food restaurant chain, headquartered and based in San Antonio, Texas, that specializes in hamburgers. Founded by Harmon Dobson and Paul Burton, it opened its first restaurant in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1950.

1985: Blizzard^® Treats are introduced. 1991: First Dairy Queen restaurant opens in Mexico.

Why can't Dairy Queen call it ice cream? ›

Technically, our soft serve does not qualify to be called ice cream. To be categorized as ice cream, the minimum butterfat content must be ten percent, and our soft serve has only five percent butterfat content.

In the US, the state with the most Dairy Queen restaurants is Texas.

MANCHESTER, N.H. —

There are 4,353 Dairy Queens in America, but only one can finish 2022 as the top-selling DQ in the country. And that location is in Manchester. The location on Second Street in Manchester finished 2022 as the highest earning store in all of America.

Anybody can go to www.dairyqueen.com and find out that Dairy Queen's first store opened in Joliet, Ill. on June 22, 1940 by Sherb Noble.

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First came Mylo Bybee.

A U.S. Forest Service meat cutter/chef, Bybee was working in the central mountains of Idaho. He was intent on using everything possible, including the trimmings from the steak. He created the iconic dish and took the recipe with him when he opened Mylo's Torch Lounge in Boise in the late 50's.

Texas is among a handful of states that developed an early preference for beef barbecue, alongside other states in the neighboring cuisine of the Southwestern United States and the cuisine of the Western United States. Beef brisket (slowly cooked in smoke in a wood-fired "pit") is the most common barbecue.

There's nothing wrong with getting a steak from a chain restaurant. But whether you're from Texas or visiting the Lone Star State, you want the real deal. Texas is known for several great steakhouses.

Red chili or chili con carne

This Tex-Mex classic has spent more than 40 years as the official state dish, according to Texas Monthly.