Sonic’s Ice Cream vs. Dairy Queen Ice Cream

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What are you picking ?

Janet Madrigal Garcilazo, Contributor

Sonic vs. Dairy Queen. Where would be the best place to get ice cream based treats? What is the better benefit? Not sure what type of ice cream you want? Keep reading maybe it can help you decide

Different types of ice cream
Sonic and Dairy Queen have different types of ice cream. They both have similar forms of ice cream but they also have their own forms of ice cream that the other place does not have. Sonic has 2 things that dairy queen doesn’t have like a master shakes and a double stuf oreo waffle cone and sundays. Dairy queen has 4 different types of ice cream treats such as blizzards,royal treats, dilly bars, and even ice cream cakes. Some similar ice cream treats that they have are shakes, ice cream cones, sundaes, and slushes.

Different flavors of ice cream
Sonic has about 19 different flavors, such as Oreo Reese’s Peanut Butter, Oreo Chocolate, Oreo Cheesecake ,Oreo, Strawberry Cheesecake, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, Butterfings, Snickers, Chocolate Cookie Dough, Mini M&M, Strawberry, Chocolate, Bannan, Vanilla, Hot Fudge, and Caramel. I would say that Sonic doesn’t have many or any holiday specials. On the other hand Dairy queen has holiday specials. Dairy queen has 16 blizzard flavors such as Sea Salt Toffee Fudge, Reese’s Pieces Cookie Dough, Oreo Mocha Fudge blizzard, Choco Dipped Strawberry, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Turtle Pecan Cluster, Choco Brownie Extreme, Oreo, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, Butterfingers, M&M’s, Heath, Stickers, Vanilla, and Royal New York Cheesecake. There are also 7 ice cream flavors such as Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, Oreo, Choco Brownie, Choco Brownie Xtreme, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, M&M, and Heath.

Price of ice cream
Sonic sells their mini shakes for $1.99, small shakes for $2.99, Medium for $3.89, and large shakes for $4.49. The vanilla ice cream cones are $1.00, vanilla dishes for $1.49, and an ice cream sundae cost from $1.99 to 4.29. Dairy queen charges $2.89 for a mini blizzard, $3.69 for a small, $4.09 for a medium, and $4.69 for a large. The price for Ice Cream cakes is $22.99 for a regular 8’’ ,$25.99 for a regular 10’’, $30.99 for a regular 10’’x14’’. The blizzard cakes are about 3 dollars more than the regular size. Prices for cones are $1.99 for a small, $2.39 for a medium, and $2.69 for a large. A small Sundaes cost $2.79, Medium sundae for $3.09, and a large sundae for $3.39. A small Royal treat price goes from $3.49 (mini) to about $5.19 for a large.

Sonic vs. dairy queen. What is your choice where would you like to go to get your ice cream treats from? Sonic and dairy queen are both great places to get treats from. It is just up to you and  your preferences of price, ice cream treat, and flavors. Here are the menus of sonic and Dairy queen if you want to look for yourself.