Hey, serfs and court jesters, gather around for a free deal alert. Her Majesty the Dairy Queen is hosting Free Cone Day, and thou mayest eat the most succulent of ice creams on the first day of Spring! If that olde English isn’t clear, Free Cone Day returns to DQ on March 20. You can go up to the window and get one free small vanilla soft-serve cone with the classic curl on top without pulling out your wallet.
This deal works at all non-mall locations (or at the mall if you also make a purchase). Limit one per person while supplies last. And it’s not valid for delivery or mobile orders. It’s a great little 220 calorie boost to your hot day.
Even better, if you want to experience having a free cone every week for an entire year, you can try to win the sweepstakes for that grand award. The prize is a $500 Dairy Queen gift card which is enough to buy a cone a week for 52 weeks (or go less frequently and get the hot fudge sundae; that’s what we’d do). To apply, you must download the DQ app and sign up for the DQ Rewards program (you must be 18 to apply and a resident of the 50 states excluding Texas or the District of Columbia). The sweepstakes entry period ends March 19.
And if your interests lean towards weird and blue-tinted, you’re probably already into the brand-new Crunchin’ Cookie Dip Cone that launched last week. Guests started posting their own menu hacks online, so Dairy Queen just added those to the menu and their app for a limited time. The cone is the traditional cone dipped into the sky-colored crunchin’ cookie dip, the parfait is made with layers of soft serve, the new dip and Oreo pieces and the Blizzard treat is made of the cone coating and Oreo pieces blended into the soft serve Blizzard-style.