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Podcast: Texas Standard » Stories from Texas
Episode: Before We Had Social Media, We Had Dairy Queen
Description: Texas has 600 Dairy Queens. About 20 percent of all Dairy Queens in the U.S. are in Texas. That’s a lot of Belt-Busters, y’all.
The oldest Dairy Queen in Texas is in Henderson. It opened in 1950.
Texas Monthly reported in 1979 that McDonald’s couldn’t get a foothold in small town Texas because DQ’s were the social, cultural and culinary centers of many towns. ¨People in small towns were particular about their food and particular about who served it to them, which was often a person who had been pouring the coffee there for twenty...