We have ice cream, cheese, and chocolate, and claim to have invented shelf stable ice cream in the 1920s. The secret? To prevent it from turning into a block of ice, you just have to add enough fat! 😆 www.usu.edu/aggieicecream/

Well, thank you! or them, 100 years ago.

Innovative!

Aw I thought this was our Aggies 😭

Yup. The BYU creamery remains literally the *only* positive thing to come out of mormondom (not quite the same as a land grant, but…)

Every now and then my dad would get chocolate milk from the dairy at Fresno State.

It was like drinking ice cream. So it in the morning. With breakfast.

Perfect

Meat lab here at Illinois is our perk. meatandeggsales.illinois.edu

MSU dairy store has hits!

Ithaca used to have a Ben and Jerry's but it went out of business. Tough to be the 4th best ice cream in town. (Top 3: Cornell Dairy Bar, Purity, and Sweet Melissa's for soft serve.)

I grew up a mile from the UConn Dairy Barn. Top 10 Proustian memories for sure.

growing up there, I thought it was a special thing just in that area- no idea it was common at most land grant / orig. ag. universities

UConn dairy bar's toasted almond amaretto ice cream is one of the things that got me through grad school.

I think we should spin up dairies at all our ag/land-grant institutions as part of the why public institutions matter charm offensive

Call Hall! www.asi.k-state.edu/about/servic...

I used to hold office hours at Berkey Creamery. Better attendance that year than any other in my career so far. 😂

Now I’m craving UDairy not only for the ice cream but the fresh curds to make homemade poutine.

Yessss

Ferdinand's @wsucougarathletics.bsky.social

Went to one and currently working at another, and I 100% agree! Seriously considering getting some friends together to create our own flavor at the dairy.

How fun!

Mizzou has an endowment dedicated to ice cream research.

Tiger Stripe!

Wise

It's the first thing my colleagues told me about when I started at MSU three weeks ago! I've already made several visits.

Wonderful welcome to East Lansing

Thanks!

You should also try out Park Lake Creamery and Tasty Twist!

Good suggestions! Thanks!

I fondly remember UVM's ice cream at my first job.... 30+ years ago. I dont remember TTU having such a thing.

We need a national list of universities with dairies

Indeed. And if the job market didn't suck, it might be a tiebreaker. "Pre tenure leave or good ice cream? Hmmm, I'll take the latter"

Some guy on TikTok did a whole series on this about a year ago! I wish I could find it…

When I was in college in Connecticut many decades ago we used to drive out to UCONN just to get ice cream

Logical

(we also threatened to go cow tipping when we went out to get ice cream, but we never actually did that)

I had no idea!! What a perk

The Naval Academy has a similar arrangement.

It's very, very cool. I typically just seeing by the bookstore which has a dairy outpost but the actual dairy isn't that far. It's called, you'll love this, the UDairy.

Awwwwwwwwww, I DO love it

Whenever my husband & I visit Ithaca (where my brother-in-law & his wife both work at Cornell), we hit up the Cornell Dairy Bar. OMG.

In PA the amount of joy about the Penn State Creamery was vast

So many flavors.

Easily some of the best ice cream I've ever had in my life.

What?! Extremely jealous.

Next time you visit a land grant, try to go to the dairy or their bookstore which will likely have their dairy's ice cream. Change your life.

Texas A&M lost their dairy years back but they still have an outstanding meat center. That's who hosts the BBQ Camp too. aggiemeat.mybigcommerce.com

Nevada also only sells meats, no dairy. Would love some fresh ice cream!

I didn't realize that

Mmmm.... barbecue camp....

My favorite thing about visiting UConn!

I loved the Cornell dairy bar - I probably gained 5 pounds the semester I had a class near there!

THIS

If you want to see some joy, you can see people reminiscing about their favorite university dairies in the replies and quotes

Madison! I wasn't even a student, just a middle-schooler, but boy howdy.

Top 5 things about Cornell tbh. The apple orchards too.

Also my freshman year i took a writing course that led to us cross country skiing to a maple syrup research station. It was my first time eating maple syrup hot out of the boiler and I've never been able to eat pancake syrup since

That was the nice part about UVA. There's an apple orchard right outside town.

But obviously nothing as good as an ag school

Well the cool thing is they served the apples in the dining hall when they were in season

That is very cool

I worked at Rutgers until 3 yrs ago but only now learning that it has a Dairy store that I must check out next week!

i regret to inform you that we have no creamery that i've heard of, but we do have a farm store!

Report back on how it goes!

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Olds College in Alberta has a brewery and beer store as well as a meat shop, where they sell the product of their students in the brewmaster and butcher programs, respectively An ice cream store would absolutely slap

They need a suggestion box

Buck's Ice Cream has been a mainstay at the University of Missouri for decades, and makes Tiger Stripe ice cream! Iowa State also recently launched their own creamery too.

The what now?

I think we get sand.

Ya gotta level up. Places got ice cream, meat, produce, beer. Y'all just doing sand?

It seems truffula trees, too.

*shakes head*

Yasss. It was a long walk from the dorms to the dairy store at MSU but so worth it

This is the ONE THING my beloved UCLA lacks 😭🍦

Did grad school at a land grant, then two different jobs at land grants. And this is gospel. And the cheese ain't bad either.

If you ever get over the UW Madison, having some Babcock Ice cream at the Terrace is one of life’s great experiences

The rumor in Madison was if you went on a day when they were testing a new flavor, you could get it for free.

👀

That is a very good argument for land grant universities!

NC State’s Dairy “Howling Cow” howlingcow.ncsu.edu

I tried Penn State Creamery ice cream 25 years ago and I'm still not over it. Absolutely incredible.

Literally my favorite thing about Cornell. That and the Apple cider from the orchard 🥰

My dorm was within spitting distance at Madison.

Great life decision

Penn St! Aggie ice cream in Utah!

Yes people have been going up for both

Donor relations at Utah State knows the way to my mom’s heart (and $) is a few cartons of ice cream!

Went to a Medieval Studies conference at Penn State more or less as a fanboy and the only thing I remember about it is the creamery

Respectable

This. The Dairy Bar at Cornell is perfection.

Flavor recommendations?

I just knew Cornell's must be amazing

Cornell Dairy 🤝 University of Delaware Joe Biden's Ice Cream Flavor www.pbs.org/newshour/art...

How cool! I love this college dairy network.

Creamery at Penn State is fantastic. Plus, they taught Ben & Jerry how to make ice cream. creamery.psu.edu

Yup. This was going to be my contribution. I figured someone would have mentioned it already 😹

I still think about the mint chip at Cornell

What flavors do y'all have? We have butter pecan of course and used to have Vardaman sweet potato. The muscadine swirl is just so-so. (I'm at Mississippi State)

Oh we have a lot. Regular flavors: Black Raspberry, Butter Pecan, Chocolate, Coffee, Cookies & Cream, Mint Chocolate Chip, Mint N Cookies, Peach, Strawberry, Vanilla Specialty: classic mixes and seasonal ones Flavors here www.udel.edu/academics/co...

Oooh! We have most of those regulars but not peach, somehow? Seems like with our corn science program, we should have elote ice cream too.

Elote sounds amazing

Oh, I’m a big fan of muscadine ripple. And the chocolate milk…. getting homesick. Just a little.

UD has the botanical garden right there, which is a nice to walk around with your ice cream. My kids like the flights of different flavors, although I'm not sure they still offer that since it's been a while since we've been.

I don't know about the flights, I'll have to check

Grew up around Wisconsin's amazing dairy program, so had a chip on my shoulder. But have to say that NC State represents!

I've heard tale of the glory of Wisconsin's dairy

It's amazing!

You're who I heard it from!

It lives up to the hype. But, admittedly, biased.

Our dairy store just introduced flights. My daughter and her friends are there now.

Excellent Friday

Iowa State recently started up a creamery (restarted, maybe?), and the ice cream is great. We also have meat and produce sales on campus.

I have a long standing argument with my best bud @danielmagleby.bsky.social about Wisconsin vs BYU ice cream, so it’s not just land grants. We’re also perfecting beer & fried cheese curds alongside ice cream, which makes our ice cream achievements even more impressive. 😂

Oh I know though I'll also note that Wisconsin is a land grant

Yep! I meant BYU for that part. But divine intervention is an unfair advantage.

Honestly I want a website that only reviews college ice cream bc in New England we have surrendered this vital function to the private sector, even though UMass Amherst is a cow college

42 miles south-south-east, UConn still has socialized, state university Ice Cream of the proletariate.

If they don’t have a flavor called “(Azzi) Fudge around and find out” they are bullshit

No idea what they're up to. This one feels like it should be 42 miles from UMass, in the opposite direction... That they lack a Geno signature Italian Ice flavor is frankly, shocking.

What the fuck.

I count only 2 bad puns in the names. A mere 6.7% of the flavors. Rookie numbers.

Western Mass ice cream is mid. At best, Herrells was good. But Pizzi Farm and Cal's Creamery are far superior... at the level of UConn's Dairy Bar. Penn State Creamery, they are not.

I stan Shaw Farm in Dracut, but I also like Lago’s in Rye.

Haven't been, but if they make their own, it's gotta be better than every farm that sources from Richardson's (or Gifford's).

Fucking UCONN has a dairy bar?

There is amazing ice cream on every corner in Provo.

I imagine if ice cream had been on the LDS prohibition list, it would’ve been the end of the religion. Alcohol ban? Fine. Coffee ban? Ok. Ice cream ban? You’ll get a population saltier than the Great Salt Lake.

best part of ours is that we are not subject to FOIA