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Texas has 600 Dairy Queens. About 20 percent of all Dairy Queens in the U.S. are in Texas. That’s a lot of Belt-Busters, y’all. The oldest Dairy Queen in Texas is in Henderson. It opened in 1950. Texas Monthly reported in 1979 that McDonald’s couldn’t get a foothold in small town Texas because DQ’s were […] The post Before We Had Social Media, We Had Dairy Queen appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.