Continuing on in Nebraska, let's go to a different campus. During the hot summer of 1988 I spent a lot of time in the East Campus library. I'd ride my bike up there early in the morning before it got too warm and then ride back when, well, it was always too warm in the afternoon that summer. The temperature was at least 90 degrees 65 times that summer. On eighteen days it was 100 degrees or warmer.
One way to cool down was to visit the East Campus Dairy Store. East Campus is the ag campus and the cows were on site. I don't know if it is still true, but at the time a couple of students would get free housing in the barn in exchange for helping to take care of the cows. The barn wasn't near the dairy store but the milk was about as fresh as you could get. Back then a cone cost fifty cents plus two cents tax. Cones are now up to $2.50.
Soon after that summer the building the dairy store was in was expanded to become the Food Industry Complex, putting the university at the forefront of food extrusion technology. ConAgra up the road in Omaha must be delighted by the food technology research, but I'm not sure why a university dairy store needs to be producing ice cream loaded with emulsifiers and stabilizers so it lasts at least six months. Wouldn't it be better for the people of Nebraska if the dairy store produced small batches of stabilizer- and emulsifier-free ice cream?
Love the name!
Posted by: judy | 29 June 2010 at 07:30 AM
and to think that butter brickle was invented in Nebraska!
Posted by: Jeff | 30 June 2010 at 10:08 PM
Very true! Butter brickle was one of my preferred choices at the dairy store.
Posted by: Joe | 01 July 2010 at 09:53 PM