European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1978 the stars and stripes Page 19 Kres a Small cold War go in on at some air Force commis Aries in Germany hot compete on Between two ice about four weeks the com i at Ramstein and i started stocking the Werne Cal Brand the kind sold in those ice ii lors at american military Corn around Germany on a test a please the ice Cream people is who for sometime have had a y on commissary sales of the cold or ice Cream is pro one and its i know Why the air Force is doing Vcrne people whose business is consumer watch by Mary Neh about 90 percent with the Nat dont see it the same they boast that their developed by Wendell a professor of Dairy science at the University of Mary is and that they also offer More flavors 18 Are available to the whose really is the a Csc Arwine in Stein store manager ice Cream customer Ken the ultimate says Roy Balling Deputy director of the troop support Agency european Field is what the customer at the Ramstein store manager Gary Stieger says that when the California ice Cream was first introduced he  keep it in the he was then stocking 60 percent of that Brand com pared to 40 percent manufacturer cd by California sales have tapered off somewhat and customers Are ask ing that More cafes ice Cream be stocked weve started carrying the two brands on a 5050 percent he has held two informal taste tests for customer comparison of the two each time Werne won another taste test held at the cafes Plant in Grunstad netted opposite at in spite of voting for the Werne All of the last testers with the exception of one woman said they would probably buy the cafes typical was the reaction of Mary Guerre wife of a tech i prefer the California it has a More natural Strawberry flavor but with four children they can go through a half gallon at a sitting in afraid id have to choose the cheaper cafes ice Keith an air Force the californian Richer in Fla but too High in Only Jame a real fan of the California which she says she often buys in a German store in would choose it despite the big Price and Shell be saving she pays one Mark for two scoops in the German a half gallon costs Marks plus the 12 percent German tax at to the Dollar that a two scoop Cone for about 00 cents and a half gallon for at the air Force half Gal Lons of Sherbert Are priced at 98 cents half Gallons of real dutch Strawberry and neapolitan Cost and half Gallons of Cherry mint butter american rum and banana split Are quarts run 89 and 93 cents a of the latter cafes has Only the Cherry Vanilla and the it offers several flavors that Werne does not chocolate Maple chocolate Ripple and Lemon Lime and its  specials include chocolate butter Al praline Blueberry cheese and rum As to the cafes its definitely More attractive across the Board 40 cents a quart and 77 rents a half Quality for that difference of 51 cents a you gel two percent More butterfat in the Werne according to the de fms subsistence Europe the Aakko Vanilla in v Cream contains 10 All other flavors have eight per cent Butl Crail the minimum required by he food and drug Werne offers Vanilla with 12 percent with other flavors containing 10 the greater the smoother and Richer the ice Cren Andrew chief of the Purchas ing division of the does not believe the Werne ice Cream will Edge out that of that two percent difference in butter fal int Worth the difference in As to the greater Werne flavor he says that in the after a Brief flurry of buying rum Raisin and the customers returned to the old Stan Dards Vanilla and Choco Bill head of the air Force commissaries in says the test Sale of California ice Cream in the three commissaries was initiated by if customers ask or and its that company must be doing something so because of the higher Tsa has decided against ordering the California ice Cream for the Arney stores even on a test the great cafes ice Cream machinery Hilary robertsdascul1 staff writer n May in North Ronald Long became an official gastronomic he downed a record eight pounds of ice Cream in Only i doubt Long would be right at Home if upped right this Way to the american ice Cream a wised at a fess Grunstad facilities kaisers Laulom and Mannheim in and script the Frozen con i factory dishes out about Gal the icy Delight for some three million i of Stillmon popular Rich fruity Strawberry and swirly per beet of refrigerated to 10 Zero cart the Muff to commissaries and throughout Western butane even ends up in saudi Ara l is really Good ice Cream that 5are so observed commander of the cafes is nonetheless Quick to put credit is Plant manager smartly decked out in is Nafesa knowl i Here because the military for uniform said hired As assistant manager in ice Cream was made from inn ram and the Fin t was put out in Little factories throughout now that were Cen we can always see the Quality and keep equipment costs perhaps there Are just 45 workers in the Square feet facility because of those monstrous huge stainless vats fairly Glisten in Side with milk and sugar Max a Central computerized tall and flashes with charts and red and Green it keeps track of the Pasteur izing and while other gizmos squirt out the soft ice either in boxes or in the forms of Sand drumsticks or fudge Sicle All products next move to a 30below Zero hardening room for a few then its Onward to the stores final eager our equipment is valued at Over Mil said and the oldest piece is about two years sometimes the insulation wears so we have to get new but we usually buy them anyway since there More bring ing higher assistant manager Charles Luthi could recall Only one emergency at the factory in the three years he has put in time at this dessert about a year a transformer failed a couple of we tried to keep the temperature As Low a possible and did a lot of luckily the freezers hold temperatures for 24 so the electrical failure didst add up to a the omnipresent Miller is trying to keep the customer in addition to its four primary gaffes markets its  for More discriminating last thanksgiving it was rum Raisin and christmastime heralded egg of course we make things that dont work said during the Bicentennial we made a White and Blue mixture that didst go Over very and we got lots of requests for a Low Cal but we had to Stop production since it sold Only Gallons per new concoctions Are suggested by the army menu Board in but Schwarzbart stressed that the final product comes from a Potpourri of we run taste read books and get guidance from other asked for even diversification in recent Miller said gaffes sought stateside help from a diary that makes ice Cream similar to Bas we discovered favorite secondary american from and those will be out in a few till be Tough space Wise in the hardening but Well make Competition May have played a part in the factors branching California ice manufactured by Werne dairies near is being sold on a trial basis in commissaries at to and Sembach and Ramstein air Force bases near Ger it Sells for f and per half gallon compared to gaffes at 77 but there Are More neither Miller nor Schwarzbart said much about Wemes ice they invited this reporter and photographer to a taste without cling us in on which Brand was gaffes won out hands Down on Schuettler three gallon Drums of All their flavors for Tex Ture and amount of with our Quality and lower we dont feel we have to prove said wed like everyone out there to try both brands Side by  make the right Arent his employees Ever tempted by to must be a Childs Paradise we allow employees to eat As much As they want when they first get said assistant manager chuckling know and they eat quite a bit of the but after the first they usually saturate