So i just moved to a new town and there is a DQ just down the street from my new apartment. So, I decided to do the green thing and bike down to the ice cream shop and get myself some green ice cream. (I even went dressed in a black shirt and a pair of green shorts.)
When I worked in the ice cream shop about eight years ago, my boss’ son referred to the green mint chip milkshake as “a frog in a blender.” Indeed, it was neon chemical waste green with ribbons of black running through it.
The Dairy Queen Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookie Blizzard is not far off from that. Now I truly love love love Thin Mints. I look for those little girls every February like it’s my job and always get some to inhale the day they come in. So I was thrilled at the prospect of a Blizzard devoted to the cookies.
While the Blizzard was good, it was not great. This could be because my Blizzard-maker girl was about 16 and had just messed up making a cone and stuck the mistake in the freezer for herself later. At any rate, the cookies were stale and lacked that sharp-sweet mint taste of the cookie. In fact, there weren’t all that many cookies in the thing to begin with. The mint flavor was decidedly lacking, too. This is because all Blizzards use vanilla soft serve, and unfortunately, this one did not use enough flavoring syrup.
I would still get another one, but I won’t expect anything stellar this time. Just something sweet.
I had seen the commercial for this Thin Mint Cookie Blizzard and immediately put “Get that blizzard!” on my ‘to do list’.
I wanted to look it up so I wouldn’t be at DQ saying,”Can I have that green shake you have?” apparently that would make a fool of myself. I decided to hunt for it at my local mall. I was hoping I was write that they even had a DQ in the food court. Yes they do, but I’m still waiting to get one. I can hear it calling me!!
i agree, matt. i thought it was good, but not great..i have to admit i love their yummy, albeit alien-looking, green mint flavoring. in fact, my all-time fave blizzard is the mint oreo, so i found myself longing for the crunch and texture of the oreos. but instead i found the thin mint cookies to be a little soft..almost chewy. so it just disappointed me. oh, well. i would probably still get it again…if they were out of oreos. haha.