What Is a Dilly Bar

A Dilly Bar is swirled soft-serve ice cream on a stick dipped in hardened chocolate. It was invented in 1955 at the Moorhead Dairy Queen, which in 2018 erected a 12-foot-tall Dilly Bar to mark the spot.

Why do they call it a Dilly Bar?

A couple of brothers who supplied ice cream mix stopped by, and somebody poured a swirl of ice cream on paper, stuck a stick in it and dipped it into chocolate. “Somebody said that’s really a dilly,” and the name stuck, Phyllis said in a 2010 oral history interview for StoryCorps.

What is a dilly bar made of?

INGREDIENTS: REDUCED FAT ICE CREAM: MILKFAT AND NONFAT MILK, SUGAR, WHEY, CORN SYRUP, HEATH CANDY (SUGAR, PALM OIL, BUTTER, ALMONDS (ROASTED IN COCOA BUTTER AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF SALT, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SOY LECITHIN (EMULSIFIER), CAROB BEAN GUM, GUAR GUM, CARRAGEENAN, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, …

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