Sweet Shop undergoes change
By Kurt Esposito
Summer
Editor
Along with receiving a new name, the Sweet Shop
has reintroduced six Purdue ice cream flavors that have been in existence
for many years.
The shop has been renamed Pappy's the Original
Sweet Shop, a name and logo which has also been trademarked. It is named
after the shop's founder, Frank Fox, who was nicknamed Pappy.
Art Anderson, director of cash operations for the
Union, said the name change as well as the reincarnation of the old
flavors were made to bring more recognition to the shop.
The six flavors, all original Purdue recipes, are
chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, vanilla and Oreos, butter pecan and
chocolate chip cookie dough.
"This is the first time since the late '60s that
the ice cream has been available again to the public," said Elaine McVay,
marketing coordinator for the Union.
In a couple of weeks the shop will also reintroduce
turtle tracks, which contain caramel, nuts and chocolate syrup mixed
in vanilla ice cream.
McVay said the ice cream will be available in either
pints or in ice cream cones.
The flavors were once produced by the Purdue creamery,
which was located in Smith Hall. The creamery was part of the dairy
sciences program at Purdue, which also had a dairy located where the
Purdue Village is located.
The creamery produced dairy products, such as cheese
and ice cream, which were sold at a counter inside Smith Hall.
The creamery closed in 1968 due to changes in dairy
farming, a de-emphasis on dairy farming as a course of study and complaints
from off-campus retailers.
Anderson said the original Purdue recipes for the
flavors were found in an ice cream manufacturing plant in southern Indiana.
The recipes were given to the plant after someone else tried to reproduce
the Purdue ice cream a few years ago. The plant now produces the ice
cream for Purdue.
The flavors were introduced in Jan. and were sold
in the soda fountain. In April, vanilla, chocolate and strawberry were
sold by the pints for the first time. On May 4 when the flavors were
officially reintroduced, the other three flavors became available in
pints.
He said the flavors have exceeded expectations
and have been received well by students and, over Gala Weekend, they
were a hit with the Alumni.
"They bring back memories and help to renew a bond
with their school," Anderson said.
He said Pappy's will undergo a face lift in the
next few years to give it the look of '50s diner and new Purdue recipe
flavors will be introduced.
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