Dairy Queen's Orange Julius is the perfect treat –- not quite a soda, not quite a milkshake, with a unique orange creamsicle flavor and light yet creamy texture. It's tart, it's refreshing, it's ...

About the same time I was still chowing down, along came Dairy Queen and gobbled up the Orange Julius franchise in 1987. It's lived on as a drink at DQ for a while — minus the hog dogs.

In 1987, Orange Julius was purchased by Dairy Queen. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, it thrived as an iconic shopping mall brand with hundreds of locations across the country, ...