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| - I forget how I found this place--one of them 72-hour guides to college towns, perhaps--but it was a choice selection. Here's the history lesson: dude named Babcock created the first ever dairy college at U-Dub. Years later, they name the building after him, and open up this retail ice cream establishment to make more money for the man.
Luckily, their ice cream is good.
We arrived just before Semisonic (err, closing time) at a ridiculous 4pm. Apparently other people had the same idea. The wife and I each got a flavor, a single (which apparently means two scoops). I did the butter pecan on cake cone, which I'm a complete sucker for--the cake cone, not the butter pecan. It had just been a long while since I'd had butter pecan. The wife got the mint on waffle cone, which costs a little bit more. But it doesn't matter because the prices are so dirt cheap to begin with, anyway.
Ice cream when it's 25 degrees out doesn't sound like a good idea, but Babcock Hall's good stuff hit the right spot. It's ridiculously creamy, which I suppose was to be expected, this being dairyland after all. I prefer my ice cream on the lighter side--think gelato or Paris' great Berthillon. Then again, I'm a huge sucker for Blue Bell's amazingly good and amazingly creamy chocolate chip cookie dough. Long story short, if you're getting ice cream, it's a nice story to get it from Babcock Hall while car touring campus. Pretty good stuff, too.
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