I am just not sure. Wild Guess: Olympia Beer at the Urban Onion.

Was it a sauce? Is sauce food? Deep thoughts.

and I have no idea where they were first served, unless the Olympia Oyster Company had a restaurant back in the 1800's.

The "Hangtown Frye" is popular dish made with Olympia Oysters, but it originated in San Francisco. The Spar didn't open until '35. I don't know, you've got me stumped.

Applets and Cotlets? Actually not from oly, so yes, I know I'm wrong

Cup-O-pizza?

Soft-serve ice cream!

From Mrs. Davis's Brown Derby?

is this restaurant still open today?

I gotta say it. Ice cream is good.

Goop from Eastside Big Toms and Eagans. It's even trademarked in Washington State and restaurants can be sued for selling "goop"

Did someone say Peanut Buster Parfait? Those were one of my favorites growing up (I also liked Blizzards {usually with snickers, m&ms, butterfinger, or oreo}). I haven't been to Dairy Queen in a while.

Hey Haz, do you work for DQ or something?

From Wikipedia:

Sherb's was the name of a small ice cream shop that opened on South West Avenue, in Kankakee, Illinois on August 4, 1938. The proprietor of the store, thirty-year-old Sherwood Dick "Sherb" Noble, a native of Clemons, Iowa, had been associated with dairy products from his teenage years. What his customers were offered that day in Kankakee for 10� was a new semi-frozen, "soft serve" dairy product formulated by a recent acquaintance and new business partner, J. F. McCullough. The Dairy Queen companies and franchises recognized Sherb Noble as the "original Dairy Queen operator."

This is a very first or prototype version of a Dairy Queen refreshment stand that was mostly used from 1955-1981. It is still used at only two locations.The first Dairy Queen outlet was opened by Noble in Joliet, Illinois on June 22, 1940. DQ was an early pioneer of food franchising, with the 10 stores of 1941 expanding to 100 by 1947, 1,446 in 1950 and 2,600 in 1955. The first store in Canada opened in Estevan, Saskatchewan in 1953. The present Dairy Queen logo was introduced in 1959. The company became "International Dairy Queen, Inc." (IDQ) in 1962. It was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway in 1998.

Quite a ways from Olympia, although I have no doubt Homemade sold the first softserve here.

From thedqteam.com

In 1938, near Moline, Illinois, J.F. McCullough and his son, Alex, Developed the delicious dairy products millions have come to know as Dairy Queen soft serve. Now there are stores in the United States, Canada, Mexico and many other countries in Europe, Central America, the Far East, and the Middle East. J. F. McCullough often referred to the cow as “the queen of the dairy business.” Thus, the Dairy Queen name originated. The first Dairy Queen store opened in 1940 in Joliet, Illinois.

also:

From History, Legends, & Myths of Ices and Ice Cream

1938 - The father and son team, J. F. McCullough (better known as Grandpa) and Alex McCullough invented soft-serve ice cream, an invention that gave birth to the Dairy Queen. Grandpa McCullough knew the mix tasted best before it was frozen into its final form, since lower temperatures numbed the taste buds, robbing the mix of some of its flavor. So he and Alex set out to find out two things: if customers liked the taste of softer ice cream and if there was a machine that would facilitate serving the creamy mix. They held a sale for "All The Ice Cream You Can Eat For 10 Cents." They dished up 1,600 servings in two hours. They also came across a prototype machine when Alex noticed a vendor selling frozen custard out of a special freezer in Chicago.

I see that soft serve had trials and all so soft serve did not originate here just the first machine . I missed the part about a trial in IL. I relied on the "ledgendsofamerica.com" for my info at the washington fun facts post. also "international dairy Queen co. history" which say trials were in 1938 but the first machine was in olympia and this soft serve kept the tempature constant. as you can assume all ice cream is soft serve if you let it sit out. As to it being called Homemade Ice cream, I assume this because of the time line and the fact that DQ still calls oly the first store to do so. Also olympia was not and I never said that it was the first DQ restraunt.

I actually knew that one, but totally forgot it.