‘FLYING SAUCER’ PASTRY at ROCKET CAFÉ of McMINNVILLE
“Most people know about those famous 1950 photographs taken on a farm between McMinnville and Sheridan, which inspired the McMinnville UFO Festival. They also inspired the “Flying Saucer” pastry – topped with ice cream and chocolate sauce, served at the aptly named Rocket Café near Linfield College until its closure in the 1980s.”
Source: Fun Facts of Yamhill County, Meet McMinnville and Yamhill County 2022-2023, page 7
COMMENT
As a Linfield College student a Class of 1972) grad worked at the Rocket as a kitchen helper and dishwasher.
The grad describes the Flying Saucer as a “a shameful concoction of a butterhorn pastry topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream." The 'Saucer,' said the grad, came in two forms: 1) Flying Saucer (butterhorn only) or 2) Flying Saucer a la mode (butterhorn with ice cream).
The grad balks at those who insist a Flying Saucer was always a butterhorn, ice cream and chocolate sauce.Perhaps the chocolate sauce was a person's “custom order," the grad said, but it was not what was on the menu.
