The Purple Cow — Restaurant in Waubay

Visiting from California into this place selling beef sticks w/tomato and black cherry ice cream was too good to be true. Foremost- the sweetest staff there! I eat ice cream maybe 5 times a year or less. …. And this black cherry 🍒 was the creamiest n dreamiest ice cream with extra large cherries. It was delicious and a large scoop! The beef sticks were very tasty, and I plan to go here on each visit.I have to watch my cholesterol and the nutrition count mattered to me at my age. We ate these for days while fishing. Other goods : frozen meats of various kinds and frozen pizza. I can imagine how good they must be. Some good tasting interesting retro cornflake candy bars too ! Thank you again for the great pit stop and photo opportunity inside and outside. Shirley from...

I was really disappointed. We were really looking forward to going. It had been at least 25 years since going here. I had a banana split. The soft serve wasn't very frozen. The bananas were over ripe. The whip cream was limp & probably the final serving in an aerosol can. The girl that made it had a very poor attitude. That probably should have told me right then not to order it. Live & learn... The 2 other ones in our group had the hard scooped ice cream and enjoyed that. My husband got some beef sticks and cheese curds from the store & also enjoyed...

The ice cream doesn't live up to the hype. Customer service doesn't seem to be able to keep up with more than a handful of people. Unless the parking lot is nearly empty, I'd recommend skipping it.

Edit: parking lot was not full when we visited. Five people inside seemed to overwhelm the staff, but they might be facing staffing problems like so many...