Fun Facts about Babcock Hall Ice Cream

  1. Top three flavors: Vanilla, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Cookies and Cream
  2. Quickly discarded: Root Beer, Peanut Butter and Jelly, Honey Graham Cracker and “Christmas Special” (which contained mincemeat)
  3. Seasonal faves: Caramel Apple, Irish Cream, Bo’s Express (vanilla with chocolate flakes and raspberry swirl), Peppermint Stick
  4. All standard Babcock ice cream starts out with the same base, a mixture that tastes like fresh, sweet cream
  5. Babcock occasionally solicits flavor and name suggestions from the public in honor of special people or events. Some bestsellers: Berry Alvarez (for athletic director Barry Alvarez), Bo’s Express (for basketball coach Bo Ryan) and Crazylegs (for 1940s Badger football legend Elroy “Crazylegs” Hirsch). Berry and Bo are still available. Crazylegs—vanilla with marshmallow swirl and caramel-filled chocolate footballs—may be revived some day.
  6. Compare calories for a half-cup of vanilla: Häagen-Dazs: 270, Ben & Jerry’s: 200, Babcock Hall: 150. Lesson: More calories do not mean better taste!
  7. You can order or send Babcock ice cream anywhere in the continental U.S. Try www.wisconsinmade.com or www.icecreamsource.com, search for Babcock Hall.
  8. Q. Why “Babcock” Hall? A. Among his many achievements, CALS agricultural chemist Stephen Babcock in 1890 unveiled a simple milk fat content test to enable an accurate assessment of composition—no more watering down! The test paved the way for setting quality standards and fair pricing for the dairy industry.
  9. The average size of an ice crystal in freshly made Babcock ice cream is 30 to 35 microns. (There are 25,400 microns in an inch.)
  10. Industry professionals have come for ice cream education at Babcock from as far away as Hawaii, England and China

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3 Responses to “Fun Facts about Babcock Hall Ice Cream”

  1. Posted by: Jeanne Swack | June 26th, 2012 at 6:38 am

    Please really consider ditching the gelatin. I’m not going for the Super Premium (awesome as it is) due to Weight Watchers. Does everything else have gelatin? I’m not the only person who won’t eat Babciock ice cream because of the gelatin (vegetarians, other Jewish poeple). Does the frozen yogurt have gelatin? In the meanwhile, Red Mango is fat free and kosher.

  2. Posted by: Bel | June 26th, 2012 at 6:55 am

    Yes, bring back the Crazylegs flavor!

  3. Posted by: Eric A. | June 26th, 2012 at 7:33 am

    PB&J was the best Babcock flavor ever! I’ve never seen it anywhere else, and I’d love to see it made again.

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