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No birthday celebration is complete without cake and ice cream, and ahead of its 150th birthday, BYU has the ice cream covered.
BYU was founded on Oct. 16, 1875 as Brigham Young Academy, and will officially turn 150 on Thursday. To celebrate its sesquicentennial, BYU created a new ice cream flavor: 150 Swirl.
The thorough process to create the new flavor, which features white chocolate brownie and blue mint ice creams, started at the end of 2024.
“We take it seriously coming up with flavors. We really do,” BYU executive chef John McDonald told the Deseret News.
A survey of flavors and ideas was sent to “a couple hundred” BYU students, faculty and staff, according to McDonald.
Over the course of two to three months, BYU’s Culinary Support staff took the most popular ideas from the survey and turned them into roughly 12 flavors of ice cream. As part of the process, they had to find the right sources for the ingredients — the right chocolate, the right banana, etc.
The ice creams were then tested by the students that work at the Culinary Support Center. Following the testing, some of the flavors were “revamped,” McDonald said.
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