Wednesday, April 25, 1984/The Battalion/Page 5
Summer snow
; Enterprising Aggies selling gourmet snow cones
By CATHERINE CAMP
BELL
Reporter
It’s possible to find snow dur-
the hottest months of the
jyeai in College Station. Where?
At Mount Aggie Snow Cones in
the Skaggs Alpha Beta parking
lot.
gourmet snow cones in 28
flavors have people flocking to
stand, some coining back
fe Hand three times a day.
HTwo enterprising Aggies,
Hllipand Peter Wingate, have
Hnd a way to have fun, show a
^■fit and pay for their college
education all at the same time.
HWe have Cadillac snow
BjHes at Volkswagon prices,”
cHllip said. “We go Caddy all
wfeH way — quality is never too
(expensive.”
Hlis younger brother, Peter,
-19, adds: “These are the best
byDEMStfmovv cones you’ll find — that’s
what people are telling us.”
k i| ■Tlie brothers, twelth and
* i rteenth * n a famil y is
p a sde children, stress two reasons they
Hik their snow cones are bet
ter than any others in the area:
unique flavors plus actual
puuue inow" j n their snow cones.
'' "f'at’W'Hustomers have a choice of
[ r 11 ma ' 28 flavors including: banana,
n| kb.-kberry, brandy, chocolate.
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Leann Davis, a junior French major
from LaMarque, gets a grape snow
cone from Philip Wingate at the Mt.
Photo by JOHN MAKELY
Aggie Snow Cone stand. The shop
specializes in gourmet snow cones
and carries over 20 flavors.
ice cream,
popeye, rum,
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accompliiMtar, peach,
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|ina colada — alcohol not in-
■ au Mudinkd. And of course, there
UlU the traditional flavors —
I 1 'grape, strawberry and cherry.
put the Wingates’ pride and
is their “top of the line” ice
[chine, which crushes ice into
snow” unlike some ma-
Bnes that crush ice into slivers
Hrvstals.
'rameworltfH'These snow cones are so soft
the Pacific huffy,” Peter said. “People
xploit Cfefn’t like crushed ice, its too
soviet beli: Punchy.
an d Mosa>H ecause the snow cones are
nameseatkftpi’isingly low-priced for
s southern |dr size, it’s easy to become a
odia. Kular customer. Snow cones
id the Wi roin five to eight inches tall
arket for IS 8st l ess than one dollar,
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(1 “We g pk place before opening the
riends to let) I’P, fight down to choosing
peaceful: tke package for the product,
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™ed to use styrofoam cups in-
d of paper cones, because
cups don’t leak, aren’t cold
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to handle and can be set down
for convenience.
“We’ve been packed the last
few days,” Peter said. “Working
for yourself is fun, it’s not like
selling insurance or cemetery
plots, but we’re not in this just
for the fun.”
Both brothers admit its a
great way to meet people.
“We’ve got this one guy who
comes by everyday, always gets
a medium but tries a new flavor
everyday,” Phillip said. “And he
eats a snow cone faster than
anybody I’ve ever seen — he
just wolfes them down, lickety
split.”
As Phillip loaded another
block of ice into the machine, a
customer asked for some advice
on which flavor to try.
Phillip suggests blackberry,
his personal favorite, but the
customer says he’s torn between
wild strawberries and pina co
lada.
The customer goes for the icy
white pina colada.
Minutes later another cus
tomer walks up and asks if “po
peye” tastes like spinache. It
doesn’t.
“Most customers like to ask
that question!” Phillip laughes.
“Actually, the flavor popeye
tastes like a cross between bub
ble gum and mint.”
The Wingates said they
would like to own a chain of
snow cone stands someday and
with the numerous take-out or
ders they’ve had, their business
had multiplied.
“Our biggest take-out was for
25 snow cones to a class in the
Business College — our first on-
campus delivery.” Phillip said.
Phillip and
open a snow cone stan
the football season.
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during
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roon!” Phillip said.
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