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    MSU Dairy Store

    4.6 (261 reviews)
    Closed 12:00 pm - 8:00 PM

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    Alexa T.

    Came here on a Sunday afternoon and there was a long line. But it moved pretty fast - only took 15 minutes for us to get to the front of the line! The flavors that were offered for the day were pretty sad though - not too many choices. My brother and I have a peanut allergy. The chocolate chips in the mint chocolate chip flavor are cooked in peanut oil, which is so random to me. So they kindly gave us a new scoop of a new flavor since we couldn't eat that.

    Spartan Swirl and Celestial Sizzle
    Lilly K.

    This place never fails me. There's so much to choose from, the staff is so kind, and it smells amazing inside. The only thing I wish they had was inside seating but they have great spots to sit outside when the weather is nice. Great quality and tasting ice cream!

    2025-03-08. MSU Dairy Store. Lansing, MI.
    G I N.

    2025-03-08 MSU Dairy Store, Lansing, MI. The MSU dairy store is well known for it ice cream. It has a long standing history that spans over 100 years, when their first cow arrived back in 1867. In 1894, they offered their first Dairy Course, but it wasn't until 1913 when their plant dedicated to dairy manufacturing was built. Since then, the Spartans have been constantly striving to master the making of cheeses and ice cream. To this day, the MSU continues that tradition of using fresh wholesome ingredients in making their ice cream, and with a rotating flavors and their "flavor of the month", it's enough to ensure you keep coming back. While East Lansing is a good drive away from me, I happened to be passing through returning from a conference in Grand Rapids and after a short stop at the Lansing Shuffle, I made sure I stopped by the MSU Dairy Store before they closed. Smooth and creamy, most ice cream flavors here have a decent content of milk fat, just the way ice cream should be. It's easily one of the best real ice creams you'll find in any retail store, and I've never been disappointed. The only notable is that they no longer accept cash, so make sure you have plastic or a digital form of payment. The also removed the very few tables they used to have inside, so you'll have to hang around the hallways or enjoy it outside if weather permits. Pro tip: try ordering 1 scoop and ask for two different flavors, this way you get to finding your favorites faster! If You would like to experience more, come dine-with-me.yelp.com I'd love to have your company... Bon Appétit!

    Spartan swirl
    Alexia B.

    GREAT ice cream. Friendly staff. Fast service. Lots of flavors to choose from. Very affordable (No sales tax?! Amazing). Parking lot right in front. Couldn't ask for anything more I love this place and would recommend to anyone. PS - The ice cream is made from local MSU and Michigan cows

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    Albert T.

    Woah, this place is popular. We dropped in less than 15 minutes after opening and there was a line out the door. It took us about 25 minutes to make our way to the front and finally have a chance to eat some deliciously sweet ice cream. We were tempted to get the waffle cones, which were being made fresh off the iron, but we opted to get a double in a cup with the Buckeye Blitz and Izzo's Malted Madness. Double ($5.00) - We started with the Malted Madness on the top. The ice cream is creamy and exceptionally malty. We found the texture to be quite stretchy and almost a little gummy, like it's half way to being a mastic ice cream. Perhaps the malt interacts with the ice cream base to create this unique texture? We found the ice cream to be a bit too sweet for our tastes, and although we were promised chocolate covered malt balls mixed inside, we were unable to find any. There were a small number of ice crystals frozen inside the ice cream. Surprising, given the high turnover. (3/5) On the bottom, we had the Buckeye Blitz, which we found to be superior (sorry Tom!). The ice cream is exceptionally peanut buttery and absolutely loaded with mini peanut butter chocolate buckeyes. If you like peanut butter cups, you will love this ice cream. The ice cream texture here is more normal, being rich and creamy super premium with relatively low overrun, but still has a bit of that stretchiness. I'd be interested in seeing the ingredients list, because I feel like some of the texture is due to added stabilizers. The sweetness is a bit less than the Malted Madness but still too sweet for our tastes. Again, though, some mouthfuls had ice crystals embedded inside, which is not the greatest. (3/5) Overall MSU Dairy Store is an ice cream shop that doesn't don't do anything particularly well, at least for the two flavors we tried. It's still a good place to stop by if you're looking for a really sweet treat and can tolerate some iciness. Note they don't accept cash, and no longer offer the change-over tubs due to "allergy concerns." We saw the server using the same scoop for each ice cream flavor, so that was a bit confusing to us. Note: Parking is currently a bit complicated since the pay-by-plate lot in front is partially under construction and has very limited spots. Bathrooms: MSU Dairy Store is in an academic building and shares bathrooms with the students.

    Flavors and November menu 2024
    Marie M.

    DATE & TIME OF VISIT: November 9, 2024 @ 4:51pm. They were not too busy when we got there but after we ordered there was a line to the door. AMBIANCE & CLEANLINESS: It's located inside one of the academic buildings on the MSU campus. It's not a large "store" and only offers some seating outside. There is a bathroom but it's one stall which is shared with EVERYONE (students, staff, etc) and frankly it was disgusting in there! STAFF: The girl that took our order was "friendly enough" but all the girls working didn't seem happy to be working in all honesty. FOOD: This is what we ordered.... First Gen Cookie Parfait -- Taste: was good, plenty of cookie mixed in and nice texture and flavor . Price: $7.00 Double Scoop in Cup -- Taste: bottom scoop was the Munnsters Mint Fidge and it was delicious. The crème de menthe flavor was perfect and the fudge swirled throughout was plentiful. It was stretchy (if that makes sense) and did have an ice "chunk" in it but that didn't bother me at all. Top scoop was Buckeye Blitz, this was another delicious flavor but I did find myself searching for the buckeye candies that were supposed to be in it out of the two flavors I preferred the Munnsters Mint Fudge. Price: $5.00. Single Scoop in Cup -- it was the Munnsters Mint Fudge again so see above description :) Price: $4.00 Shake -- Taste: Beaumont Brownie Bliss flavor and it was divine. Perfect balance of salt & sweet and thickness was just right. You didn't have to hurt your face trying to get any through the straw but it was like water consistency. Price: $6.00 OVERALL THOUGHTS: Paid $23.32 and it was worth it! Delicious flavors and textures. Parking is tight and not very plentiful. They DO NOT accept cash, so take note of that! WOULD I RETURN? Yes we definitely would.

    Electric Espresso
    Chiara N.

    The Dairy Store never disappoints!! I have loved every flavor I've ever tried. This time was Electric Espresso. I was a bit worried it would be too sweet, but it was perfect as always! The waffle cones made it even better.

    Beaumont Bliss - salted caramel w/ brownie bites & fudge stripes. Quite good, but I liked my son's Choc. Chip Cookie Dough even more.
    Clark B.

    Enjoyed a college tour and then went to the famous MSU Dairy Store. You can find it in the Animal Science building near the auspiciously named Meat Laboratory. I'd heard great things for many years and never made it over. We were disappointed to learn that all of their cheese was sold out by checking on their website. But we were able to enjoy the yummy ice cream. I worried about the $4 scoops, but they were huge. Somehow my lils convinced Mom to buy them 2 scoops of Cookie Monster and Mint Chocolate Chip, and the other had Cookie Monster and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. Our oldest and I had the Beaumont Bliss which was salted caramel with brownie chunks and fudge swirl. My wife had the Buckeye with peanut butter chunks. She liked hers and the oldest and I liked ours. They were quite good but there was a lot going on. When I sampled my son's Cookie dough I had buyer's remorse. It was fantastic. I usually love to just go with vanilla to measure against other places. Based on the vanilla in the Cookie Dough ice cream I would not have been disappointed. Sometimes simpler is better. Long ago, I had some ice cream at the Clemson equivalent of the MSU Dairy Store. They have their own similar agriculture programs and I marked it as some of the best ice cream I ever had. My small sample of the Cookie Dough puts MSU right up there. The original Ben and Jerry's probably still owns that category, but the freshness at MSU wins special consideration.

    Spartan Swirl in a waffle cone
    Katy C.

    I think I've eaten more ice cream this summer than any other in my life, and it's not even technically summer yet! But you can't skip a visit to the MSU Dairy Store when visiting East Lansing; that's the rules and I don't make them. Nate and I stopped in for a scoop of Sesquicentennial Swirl, although it's called "Spartan Swirl" now - it's cake batter ice cream with frosting and cake pieces. It's been my favorite since 2005 and I will be devastated if they ever discontinue it. Nate was bummed that they didn't have his favorite black cherry, but he got the strawberry cheesecake instead. It was super decadent and rich, maybe even a little too rich - a smaller portion would have sufficed. I had to have the green waffle cone - yes, I did it for the 'gram. It's just so photogenic with the green swirls of the ice cream. The single scoop is really two huge scoops, so you may want to share or get a kid's cone. They also sell cups of mac and cheese, which I've never had but that seems like a huge oversight on my part. I definitely will be getting some next time. You can buy cheese at this store as well as pints or quarts of ice cream to take home. Oh and they have an ice cream cart that you can rent for events! There's not a ton of places to enjoy your treats on site, so we just took our cones on a walk to the Comm Arts building around to corner to reminisce about our time there while attending MSU approximately 1,000 years ago.

    Cookie Monster
    Dawn M.

    When on campus, grab the Spartan Swirl or the Cookie Monster-comes with green waffle cones! Yummay! The waffle cone tasted fresh and not hard/brittle. Plenty of options to choose from and I'm assuming they're all just as good as what we got!

    Tiffany S.

    What a treat! I'm glad I didn't attend MSU because I would've gone to the Dairy Store EVERY DAY. Some of our alum friends were showing us around campus & we stopped in! So why is there a Dairy Store on campus? Per their website, its because dairy manufacturing has a long tradition at MSU! They have a whole Dairy Foods complex outfitted with a processing plant and all - really to teach courses and conduct research etc. It was pretty busy on a Saturday but the line moved! I had the peanut butter wave milkshake (Dark Chocolate ice cream with peanut butter swirl -- $6). The person working kindly split it into two cups for us! It was super rich and decadent. FYI - they use Reddi-wip here! My husband had the Spartan Swirl (Cake batter ice cream with a green frosting swirl and green cake pieces). Very good but very decadent! They also had hot mac & cheese as well as blocks of cheese for sale. What a fun campus treat! Parking was out front & free.

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    3 months ago

    highly recommend, definitely worth it. Love their chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwiches.

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    1 year ago

    Many varieties of delicious icecream & a few sandwiches, but doesn't accept cash, only cards.

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    8 months ago

    so good, best grilled cheese i've ever had and ice cream is bomb. get beaumont bliss or mango lisa

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    2 years ago

    I always appreciate this place has a vegan sorbet option. It's typically a raspberry sorbet and it's super smooth and delicious

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