Union makes culinary changes

By Kurt Esposito
Assistant Campus Editor

The Purdue Memorial Union made several changes over the summer to increase the variety of food offered — changes that include two new stores and a new name for another.

"They help complement existing operations within dining services that students are in search of," said Elaine McVay, marketing coordinator for the Union.

The newest eatery, Freshëns, opened Aug. 14 on the ground floor of the Purdue Memorial Union — in the location of the former Stripe Shop. The stand offers hot pretzels, smoothies and frozen yogurt.

Gary Goldberg, director of PMU dining services, said the shop gives people in the Union an option for dessert. "The response is excellent, better than we anticipated," he said.

The Union also opened Villa Pizza on July 9 — located to the left of Freshëns — making it the first franchise to be located in the Union. The pizzeria offers pizza and other Italian dishes.

"It's been great, very popular. We are looking forward to a great fall. It's been very well received," said McVay.

The Union also renamed the Sweet Shop to "Pappy's the Original Sweet Shop," which is now trademarked along with its logo. It's named after the shop's founder, Frank "Pappy" Fox.

The store has also reintroduced Purdue's original recipe ice cream flavors — chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, vanilla and Oreos, butter pecan, chocolate chip cookie dough and turtle tracks.

The flavors were produced by the Purdue Creamery, which was located in Smith Hall. It closed in 1968 and Purdue stopped producing those flavors. The recipes were found in an ice cream manufacturing plant in southern Indiana, which now produces the flavors.

All ice creams now used in the store are Purdue flavors.

Pappy's plans to introduce more flavors over the next couple of years as well as change its décor to match the look of a '50s diner.

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