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Orange Freeze Redux

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One of the very few things that I miss about Missouri (where I grew up) is Steak & Shake.  S&S is a hamburger joint.  No drive-through, just order and take it home or stay and sit.  Booths with individual juke boxes. 

I always ordered the same thing.  Shoestring fries and an orange freeze.  Normally my mom didn’t fuss that I didn’t have an entrée; if she did, then I added a grilled cheese.  An orange freeze was basically an orange creamsicle shake and I adored it.  When I moved away from Missouri, I lamented the loss of the orange freeze.  The orange Julius just didn’t cut the mustard.  (I did find shoestring fries at the Convention Grill that stand up to S&S.)

For forty years, every time I visited family in St. Louis, we would always have one meal at S&S.  This was OK until last year when we visited and discovered that S&S had DISCONTINUED the orange freeze.  Truly awful news.  Only my mother’s wish to not make a scene kept me at the table.  Grilled cheese, shoestring fries and diet coke just wasn’t’ the same.

Fast forward to yesterday.  YA and I were headed for grocery shopping and decided to make a stop at Dairy Queen.  While it’s not technically summer, a few nice warm days have a way of lulling you into believing it’s close.  As we were waiting in the drive through, I noticed something called an Orange Cream Shake featured on the menu with a lovely picture and a huge notice that it was new.  Cynic that I am, I didn’t consider it for a minute, but YA said “hey, that looks like that orange thing you like – let’s get a small one so we can taste it.”   Guess I’ve mentioned the orange freeze just a few times in her life. 

Well, glory be.  It’s perfect.  If I closed my eyes I could just imagine sitting in an S&S booth, sipping away.  YA was lucky to get half.   We’ll see how long the orange shake lasts on the DQ menu but I’ll have a few in the meantime.  Now if only I could get Dairy Queen to make those fabulous shoestring fries!

Do you have any favorite summer time treats?

32 thoughts on “Orange Freeze Redux”

  1. Arby’s used to offer a similar orange shake periodically. I don’t know if they still do since I haven’t visited an Arby’s in years. I can’t comment on their fries though, since I never order fries.

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  2. I see there still is an S&S off I-74 in Peoria. My partner always stopped there for some ice cream drink. I was not a fan. Did not order shoestrings. Not to my taste. I tried to avoid hamburger places on the road. So did John but he had 3 places he would stop for their ice cream drink.
    Two of the few things that perks Sandy up anymore are McNuggets and orange sorbet. I feed her lunch every day, which ends with the sorbet.
    Clyde

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  4. Rise and Shine, Baboons,

    Root Beer Float. Yum. Chocolate malts as well, but only one per summer. I do not like the orange shake or dreamsicles at all and I never have.

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    1. JacAnon

      Good progress with the hip recovery this week. My DIL is a good caregiver. I am up sitting in a chair this morning (as opposed to lying in bed) WooHoo! Today I taper off the pain meds which is good. While those are needed they are so unpleasant.

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      1. I’m glad you’re making progress. Usually they have you up and walking before they discharge you… have you been able to get up and walk around a little?

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  5. The orange cream shake sounds delicious, but I’m trying to avoid foods that set my sugar addiction off. My favorite is a plain vanilla shake from A&W. Hold the cherry, hold the whipping cream, hold the plastic straw. Or, just a pint of Haagen Dasz ice cream! Oh, heaven!

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  6. There are a few treats I have lost along the way. Nothing frozen on a stick, which makes my hands sticky, part of my tactile issues. Once vomited after having a root beer float, which had been a favorite. And I just lost the taste for several things, like sundaes and Dairy Queen, which is a shocker. Anything that eliminates sugar intake is good. 1919 Root Beer is very much a favorite, draft only.
    Clyde

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    1. Four months ago my granddaughter scheduled to have her wisdom teeth pulled 8 a.m. Monday, which turns out to be the day before her other grandfather’s funeral. She cannot postpone it and she was warned this will likely be painful. All the grandchildren are expected to play a role. She has never had anesthesia before so who knows how this will work out. This was such a sudden death from previously undetected leukemia.
      Clyde

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  7. DQ’s Buster Bar – sort of like an ice cream sundae on a stick. The summer after high school that I (and a few friends) worked at the factory, we would scoop the loop and stop at the DQ after work… they were probably something like 65 cents then…

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  8. iced tea and an egg salad sandwich with chives or in a tomato boated out

    arnie palmer with lipton tea and countryside lemonade powder

    gazpacho

    Vichyssoise

    watermelon

    baseball on the radio

    outdoor guitar

    sailing

    open sunroof / top down on convertsble

    motorcycle

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  11. I make some iced mint tea in the summer which is really, really good. I use Numi Moroccan Mint tea. Two bags to a quart. Set it in the sun and let it brew naturally. No sugar. So good refreshing with ice.

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  13. Ice cream drumsticks were a summer treat that I used to only get during the fair. We didn’t have treats at home-
    Remember the Tupperware popscicle mold? We made them with Kool-aid. It was an icy basically, we’d suck all the flavor out of the ice.
    After Kelly and I married, we had more treats.
    And banana popsicles are favorites.

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