The Two Dairy Queen Blizzard Flavors You Should Absolutely Avoid Ordering - Tasting Table

"Perhaps the Heath Blizzard was doomed from the start, since Heath bars are notoriously hard and crunchy to start. When eaten at room temperature, their crunch all but melts in your mouth after the first bite, releasing a burst of buttery sweet richness. But the Heath bar was added in such tiny chunks that we could hardly taste them. The buttery sweet flavor was completely muted by the vanilla soft serve. We understand the conundrum DQ faces because adding larger chunks of Heath bar to ice-cold soft-serve would turn them into tooth-cracking rocks."

"The Butterfinger Blizzard wasn't much better, suffering the same flavorless fate as the Heath bar. The Butterfinger chunks were few and far between, on top of being too finely ground to taste the nutty buttery flakes of the interior, let alone the milk chocolate coating. The whole point of a Blizzard is to be bursting with flavorful and texturally exciting mix-ins. And both the Butterfinger and Heath Blizzards missed the point entirely."

"Customer reviews have complained about both Butterfinger and Heath Blizzards being flavorless. One Yelp review shows a picture of a Heath Blizzard with a scarce dusting of toffee bits and no chocolate drizzle, stating "my wife ordered a heath blizzard and all it was was ice cream." DoorDash customers even wrote about ordering extra Heath to anticipate their sparse population throughout the vanilla soft-serve. And yet, they were still left wanting more."

Dairy Queen's Blizzards include many flavors, but the Butterfinger and Heath varieties deliver disappointing mix-in quantity and flavor. Heath bars are extremely hard, so they are added in tiny pieces that become nearly undetectable in cold soft-serve, muting their buttery sweetness. Butterfinger pieces are too finely ground and sparse, losing both the nutty-buttery interior and milk chocolate coating flavor. Customers report scant toffee bits and minimal mix-ins even when ordering extras, leaving consumers unsatisfied. A Blizzard's appeal depends on abundant, texturally exciting mix-ins, and these two flavors fail that expectation.

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