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EPISODE · Feb 10, 2016 · 2 MIN

Before We Had Social Media, We Had Dairy Queen

from Texas Standard » Stories from Texas · host W.F. Strong

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 post Before We Had Social Media, We Had Dairy Queen appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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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...

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