Dairy Queen’s logo consists of red, white, blue and orange. Each American state has an average hundred or so stores. The first one was in Illinois, owned by Mr. Cliff Noble, descendant of the same Utrecht-based Nobel family for whom also the Barnes&Noble bookstore chain is named. A main drag in Utrecht is, and has been for centuries, Nobelstraat.
The Queen was not just any queen, but a Dutch girl in wooden shoes, because the most popular monarch in America at the time was not the Queen in London, but Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, the country that, moreover, according to Mr. Noble, provided “the queen of all dairy products.”
And they are good. Their banana split they’ll cover with a double-thick layer of whipped cream for you.
