The OFFICIAL Page of the WSU Creamery's production location & retail store, makers of Ferdinand's ice cream and world famous, award winning Cougar Cheese.
How did Ferdinand's get its name?
The most popular story is that in 1938, the Washington State College Dairy Products Judging Team was trying to earn money for competitions. There was a student on that team, Rune Goranson, whose middle name happened to be Ferdinand. Also in 1938, the Disney short film "Ferdinand the Bull" was released. All this was too much to ignore and the judging team sold ice cream sundaes to raise funds and named their sales booth "Ferdinand's". Ferdinand's Ice Cream Shoppe opened its doors on September 24, 1948 in Troy Hall and remained there until 1992, before moving to its current location in the Food Quality Building.
The Mission of the WSU Creamery is to provide teaching and research opportunities to the university community and to the dairy industry, exceptional work experience to student employees and financial support to students and university operations. This will be accomplished by constantly providing safe dairy products of exceptional quality, with outstanding customer service.
Cougar Cheese and Ferdinand's ice cream
