They still have them in the Southeast. Be wary though, they might try to put some whipped cream on top and ruin the taste!

in Indiana they are called Artic Rush

they used to be called something after mister misty, recently renamed arctic rush, I always get one and have them mix in soft serve with it, mmmmmmmmm!

A family friend owned a DQ so I got all the free ice cream I wanted, hum, maybe that is why I am overweight. Kiwi-Strawberry was the best.

these are still made--now called artic rush. i always had whipped cream on mine. blue raspberry or cherry are the best

Political correctness killed Mister Misty. The company changed the name to "Arctic Rush" because someone complained Mister was too masculine and offended their sensibilities. Regardless, I still order Mister Misty whenever the machines aren't broken (which is often)--a dessert that proved guys could be sweet, too!

I remember Mister Misty around 1971.My hippyish friends and I couln't afford alot so it was a large fries and Mister Misties all around.They were sweet and tasty and cold.It was in Nova Scotia and I remember something frozen in a tube as well along with something called a dilly bar.All very tasty!

Didn't D.Q. use to make a "Orange Freeze " ? Tasted like Orange Sherbert but "WICKED COLD " !!! I know they made um up in New England for years.

After Mr. Misty they were called misty slush before arctic rush

The lime Mr. Misty was sooooo good.

When I order a Mister Misty float, I cannot use the term "Arctic Rush." It sounds and feels unnatural. Embarrassingly, I take the "safe road" and order a Blue Raspberry Float.

I remember getting them from A&W root beer

I used to work at DQ in the late 1970's. Mr. Misty was a slushy drink that was kinda like the equivalent of a drinkable snow cone. Each store would have a range of flavors (cherry, blueberry, raspberry, etc) in pump bottles that were very reminiscent of the same flavors you would use on a snow cone. You could also use soft drinks for flavoring (a root beer Mr. Misty was relatively commonly ordered). What many people don't know is that the base slush was sweet and had a light citrus flavor too it. Note that Mr. Misty is NOT the same thing as an Orange Julius - which is a completely different product DQ offered in some of its stores.

Mr. Mistys were for sale in the 1960's in Manchester, NH. My grandfather would hand me a quarter to get a Dilly Bar or a Buster Bar (round cup shaped with nuts and caramel and vanilla ice cream with a chocolate coating). Dilly Bars were 10 cents.

Courtney~ Back in the day, a Mr. Misty mixed with soft serve was called a Freeze. I don't think it's officially on the menu any longer, but I still order it. "A cherry Arctic Rush with soft serve, please." :)

Fond memories of my parents taking me to DQ as a kid in the 70s in New England. ALWAYS ordered an Orange Freeze (vanilla soft serve with orange soda). I think the last time I had one was probably early 90s. Our local DQ (I'm now in the Carolinas) doesn't even have orange soda anymore or Orange flavoring for the slush (Artic whatever... lol, It'll always be a Mr Misty to me!). Miss those Orange Freezes!

The Mister Misty machine was originally called the DeLush. The machine was designed and first used in a Wichita, Kansas Dairy Queen. One of the inventors was also the first person to put a hot kitchen in a Dairy Queen (before these were labelled - Brazier locations). When the patent was bought up by Dairy Queen they changed the name to Mr. Misty. It was released to the mass market around 1960 or 1961. I know this because he was my grandfather. That man put smiles on more faces than anyone else I have ever met.

Hello Micheal! Thanks so much for sharing, that’s super cool to hear about your grandfather. Do you know which location in Wichita KS it started in?

That is a great story, Michael. Fredrick is right. What was the location?

In 1965 I asked the owner of the Georgetown, KY Dairy Queen to make me a shake, but to use lime Mr. Misty instead of milk as it was not a menu item. Anyway, from that day on it was all I would order. Imagine my surprise that at some later date DQ introduced it as a "Freeze."