Why DairyQueen Sucks: Kimball Farm vs Dairy Queen, compared with McDonald's

Big name ice cream places are that.  Now, I must first admit that not all big name ice cream places are bad.  Cold Stone Creamery serves up in a way where you can mix one or a combination of base flavers with a bunch of mix ins to create your fantasy ice cream.  That's what cold stone creamery is.  But I want to point you out that people go to dairy queen and are fanboys of it.  Now to bash this up, I want to compare this to Kimball Farm's ice cream, and then followed by McDonald's ice cream.  Perhaps soon, McDonald's will expand their ice cream line to compete with Dairy Queen, in which they are already taking on sub sandwiches.

Dairy Queen has been viewed as an ice cream stand, while McDonald's was viewed as a burger stand.  But now, they are just two joints of fast food places that you mind as well just call them just two competitors, since McDonald's and Dairy Queen has gone to a point where they really blur the line between an ice cream parlor and a burger shop...and a wrap shop...or whatever.

Now, let's compare Dairy Queen vs Kimball Farm.

BANANA SPLITS:

KIMBALL FARM

DAIRY QUEEN

 

Comparing these two, I could rest assured that the Kimball Farm one is much better, as you can select from a total of 50 different flavors, though the default flavers are vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry.  They also show specials which are the splits without the banana.  The other thing is that you can choose any three toppings while not relying on the three toppings (Strawberries, pineapples, chocolate sauce).  Now, comparing the volume of ice cream, Kimball Farms is the winner.  Furthermore, they now serve Split Juniors with maybe the future times where they are going to serve Jr Specials.

 

OREO BROWNIE SUNDAES

KIMBALL FARM

 

DAIRY QUEEN

 

That's as much flex you can get with Dairy Queen.  Let's hope you can add some toppings, cause the one above is Brownie Sundae with Cookies and Cream ice cream.  Vola!  A Better sundae with creamier ice cream, and best of all, unlike Dairy Queen which the only brownie sundae you can get there, you can customize your brownie sundae at Kimballs with tons of other flavors.  Hey, make it coffee with Mocha Almond Assult or even a Brownie Sundae with coffee oreo.

 

Now, off to the sundaes themselves.  Compare to Dairy Queen's sundaes, Kimball Farm offers your choice of ice cream as well as toppings.  Dairy Queen?  One ice cream, which is soft serve vanilla.  They used to have chocolate, but they took that away.  Yea, a step back.  You get a choice of like one topping, from bananas to chocolate to peanut butter.  Same thing with Kimballs, but you get to choose an ice cream as well, giving us flexibility to combine the flaver of ice cream to the toppings.  Try coconut almond chip with Hot Fudge.

 

As far as blizzards, I am sure you could create your own custom extra thick frappes at Kimballs with your choice of ice cream, while at Dairy Queen, blizzards are actually just vanilla ice cream with mix ins.  Yea, don't be deceived by it, because they just take vanilla ice cream, mix it with mix ins, and then...well...you just create a gimmick of a menu.

 

But let's put McDonald's versions of the ice creams.  Sure McDonald's don't sell banana splits as of yet (though Sonic does),  but they do serve a few sundaes (Hot Fudge, strawberry, and caramel sundaes), and McFlurries.  Going to burgerking, they do serve brownie sundaes as well as chocolate, caramel, and strawberry sundae, but no blizzard-like treats.

 

However, when I compare them, you could see that you can just get most things at McDonalds then at Dairy Queen.

 

So, I am baffled to why Dairy Queen is the number one place for ice cream.  Maybe is that they grew up as Kids and became fans of Dairy Queen due to intensive advertising, but let's get real.  People who just go to Dairy Queen all the time for ice cream just doesn't know the real deal of Ice Cream is.  A Banana split with nothing but vanilla ice cream?  Blech.  It's just equivlent as this:

 

Yea, mind as well just order a Kimball Farm's Banana Split or a Special with all vanilla ice cream.