We go to Ocala probably twice a month and we always stop on the way back at the Dairy Queen in the Pilot Gas Station about halfway on I-75. There is the Don Garlit Drag Racing Museum and a Jet Fighter on the east side and on the west side you'll see the Pilot which has the DQ and a Wendys. Also there is a Golf Outlet and Golf Shoe Store in the shopping center there. You'll see billboards for all those, it's exit 341 Marion Oaks.
Pilot - 2020 SW CR-484 - Ocala, FL - Florida Gas Prices
Also the McDonalds at Colony has $1 vanilla cones and now they have them chocolate dipped for $1.30. However the chocolate is almost too rich and thick. I just came from having one there, I'll probably forgo the dipping in the future at McDonalds.