Original Cheeseburger
Dairy Queen’s simple cheeseburger, with American cheese, pickles, ketchup and mustard. It is the closest thing on the menu to the old Brazier burgers, and it does exactly what it says. Order it double and save room for dessert.
The story
Dairy Queen sold nothing but soft serve for its first eighteen years. Food arrived in 1958 with the Brazier line, named after the flame broiler it was cooked on, and it turned a summer ice cream stand into somewhere you could have lunch. The plain cheeseburger is the survivor of that menu. The Brazier name itself was retired decades ago, but burgers have been part of every Dairy Queen since, which is why the chain sells more of them than outsiders expect.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Original Cheeseburger yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef and cheese
TOP 2McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese (Copycat) - Shares beef and cheese
McLewis Burger - Shares beef and cheese
McDonald's Cheeseburger (Copycat) - Shares beef and cheese
Pickle Crustburger
Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the Original Cheeseburger.- Burger King · beef and cheese
Cheeseburger - Goody’s Burger House · beef and cheese
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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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