Dairy Queen Gravy by: Tim Rose You Can't Get There From Here™

Dairy Queen Gravy 

by: Tim Rose

I went to a Dairy Queen. They have the best chicken strips around - MMMMMM chicken strips. The reason they are the best is because instead of serving them with BBQ sauce or honey mustard or some other sodium benzoate goop, they serve the chicken strips with HOT homestyle white gravy - southern style! YEAH!

However on this occasion, I wasn't extremely hungry and I was short on cash, I decided to order the 'kid's meal' version which had 2 strips instead of 4 and was about 3 bucks with a drink and fries. When I ordered it, I of course, requested that it come with the gravy - and plenty of it because chicken strips without gravy are...well, ...McNuggets.

So the classic Taco Bell response was - " Sorry we don't serve gravy with the chicken strips." To which my obvious reply was "Do you no longer have the ability to make gravy?" No, we have lots of gravy, we just don't serve it with the kid's meal. Ok, can I have some gravy with my kids meal? No. Why do you not serve the gravy with the kids meal? Because the gravy is HOT.

 Exactly. That is kind of the point of having gravy with the chicken strips.

We can’t serve gravy with the kids meal.

If I were to order the large serving of chicken strips, would I be able to get the HOT gravy?

Yes.

Then how about giving me the HOT gravy with my kids meal? We cant serve gravy with the kids meal Ok, I'll bite - WHY NOT?

Because kids might burn themselves.

Ok, but it is for me - I am clearly an adult there are no children with me and I cross my heart that I wont go out and resell it to some wandering 8-year old out on the street and you just said you would give me the gravy if I ordered the larger size. So if it is ok for me to burn myself with a large order, can I not have the freedom to burn myself with the kids meal?

We can’t serve gravy with the kids meal.

Is the gravy a controlled substance? How about if I order the kids meal and request a side-order of gravy?

Sure, we can do that.

So I paid the extra $.50 - but I had HOT gravy...

 I think I burned my tongue.