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She is also trying as many of the coffee and chai flavors as possible at Checker Records. “When I officially leave Hillsdale, I’ll probably just come back just for that,” she said. Her new goal is to try all of the burgers at The Hunt Club. There’s everything you can get, but it all kinda tastes the same like you’re eating a franchise meal.” Like Handmade - the owner grew up in Hillsdale, went to school in Hillsdale, and now works in Hillsdale,” she said. “The food culture back at home is more franchises instead of local restaurants or people who have lived here the whole time. With all of the Udder Side flavors sampled, she’s moving on into other areas of Hillsdale’s food culture, which she said she enjoys a lot more than the franchise-flooded options she has near her home in Akron, Ohio. Weidinger is now in her fifth year at Hillsdale, after returning to campus to finish out her last year of eligibility on the softball team. There’s not a team bonding event that happens without Dana making her slutty brownies. “My favorite thing she makes is her slutty brownies, which is an oreo sandwiched between two layers of cookies. “She has such a gift for cooking and baking, I would trust her judgement any day when it comes to food,” Catron said.

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“I’m not surprised she’s tried every flavor of ice cream because the freezer in our kitchen is always full of pints of different flavors.”īeyond just sampling new food and restaurants, Weidinger is also an excellent baker, according to fellow teammate and fifth-year senior Sam Catron. “I can always count on her to give good recommendations about food in Hillsdale,” senior Julia Mullins said. Weidinger’s friends and housemates said they’ve learned to trust her judgement when it comes to new foods and flavors. I can actually predict when they’re going to change the soft serve flavors.” “I got through most of the menu my freshman year because I was pretty stressed out and ice cream was the light at the end of the tunnel,” she said. She said cookie jar remains her favorite, with Michigan pothole in second and banana pudding in third. With more than 36 hard ice cream flavors and a new soft serve flavor every week, Weidinger had a lot of sampling to do. “I got cookie jar for my first ice cream there and I fell in love.” “When I first came to Hillsdale for my recruiting visit for softball, the team told me about this ice cream place in Jonesville, so I was like, ‘Alright mom and dad, we’re going to Udderside,’” Weidinger said. On the first day of her senior year, Dana Weidinger finally completed her mission: try every flavor of ice cream at The Udder Side. Dana Weidinger (left) and her friend Alexis Newbie ’20 at Udder Side.

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