Ice cream is ice cream. Right? Well, sure it is – unless it’s Dairy Queen. Can you take a cup of ice cream and turn it upside down without all of that delicious goodness ending up on the floor? No? Well, you can if it’s a Dairy Queen treat. In fact, in Texas, Louisiana, and Canada, there was a time when if the staff person making your Blizzard didn’t demonstrate this particular phenomenon before handing it over to you, you could get your ice cream for free. Perhaps this is because their soft-serve only has 5% butterfat (to actually be called “ice cream,” the stuff would need to contain at least 10%), allowing it to defy gravity.

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The small college town of Ypsilanti, Michigan might not be the first place you’d imagine a multibillion-dollar food franchise beginning, but that’s exactly where Domino’s started back in 1963. The original Domino’s location was located on 507 Cross Street in Ypsilanti (known locally as Ypsi) and was owned by Dominick DiVarti.

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Colonel Harland Sanders has been a fixture of the American consciousness for a few decades now. Most people would imagine that the Colonel, as well as the KFC brand, started in, well, Kentucky, but the Colonel was actually born in Henryville, Indiana, and the first Kentucky Fried Chicken was opened in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Tim Hortons is known as the king of Canadian donuts. Founded in 1964, the company became a multi-million-dollar company within less than half a decade and as of today, is Canada’s leading restaurant chain with 4,478 establishments worldwide.

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If you grew up in America, you were probably brought up on the concept of the American Dream – the idea that anything you put your mind to you can achieve. In a list of The 30 most American things ever… the American Dream is number two, beaten for the number one spot only by the Constitution itself. What this means is that you have a large population of people constantly trying to achieve their very best. In a different list of The Most American Things Ever, McDonald’s is number twenty-six. However, when you do a search for “burgers and fries,” the Five Guys website is the top result.

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