Wendy's Frosty is in a frozen dessert category of its own. The unique, spoonable dairy treat is thicker than a milkshake but meltier than soft serve. You can , use it as a french fry dipping sauce, or simply enjoy it with a spoon.
It's truly a feat of frozen dairy innovation. The Wendy's Frosty comes from surprisingly humble origins: According to its creator Fred Kappus, the Frosty was inspired by frosted malts sold by a stand at the Thistledown racetrack in Cleveland in the 1960s. Though the Thistledown frosted malts were purported to have a secret formula, Kappus says it wasn't really a secret.
The key was blending chocolate and vanilla soft serve to create a maltier, mellower flavor — a flavor that happens to pair perfectly with Wendy's burgers. In 1969, Dave Thomas enlisted Kappus to find the perfect frozen dessert to add to the opening-day menu at his new hamburger restaurant (Wendy's, of course), and the rest is history. Frosty history The Chocolate Frosty debuted in 1969 as one of Wendy's five original menu items.
The simple yet tasty menu also included burgers, french fries, soft drinks, and chili. Wendy's kept its frozen treat selection streamlined to just one item, the classic Chocolate Frosty, for over 30 years. The fast food chain finally experimented with offering a Vanilla Frosty flavor in 2006 after receiving numerous customer requests.
In recent years Wendy's has fully hopped on the flavor train, offering such seasonal delights as the , , and . But the fast .
