Question: 7-11’s Slurpee was actually invented at which fast food chain?
Answer: In the late 1950s, Omar Knedlik of Kansas City owned a rundown Dairy Queen. When his soda fountain malfunctioned, he improvised by putting some bottles in the freezer to keep them cool. However, when he opened the bottles, they were a little frozen and slushy and customers loved them. He called the drink an ICEE, but when 7-Eleven licensed it in 1965, the company’s marketing department renamed it the Slurpee after the sound made while sipping it through a straw.
