Hungr-Buster
The burger that tells you you are in a Texas Dairy Queen. Texas locations run their own menu, and the Hungr-Buster, along with its half-pound big brother the BeltBuster, is a big, straightforward burger built for small towns and long drives. For a lot of Texans, this is what DQ means.
The story
Texas runs its own Dairy Queen. The franchisees there organised themselves into a separate operators’ council decades ago and have set their own menu ever since, which is why a Texas DQ sells steak fingers, gravy and the Hungr-Buster while the rest of the country does not. The burger is the emblem of that split: for a lot of small Texas towns the DQ is the only restaurant on the main road, and the Hungr-Buster is what it is known for.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Hungr-Buster yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef
McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese Deluxe (Copycat) - Shares beef
McDonald's McFeast (Copycat) - Shares beef
McDLT - Shares beef
Big Mac Taco
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About Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen opened in Joliet, Illinois, in June 1940, selling soft serve that its founders had perfected. For most people it is still the Blizzard place, the thick blended ice cream served upside down to prove it will not fall out. But Dairy Queen has sold burgers since the late 1950s, when a franchisee in Georgia created the Brazier line of broiled burgers and hot dogs.
More than 7,000 locations, most of them in the US and Canada. Owned by Berkshire Hathaway.
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