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A post about yogurt
Saturday, 16 January 2016 07:30 pmThe Dog Is The Sort Of Creature That Will Decide Whether It Should Put Something In Its Mouth By Putting It In Its Mouth.*
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Yesterday, I went to the grocery before work. I wanted some lemon Greek yogurt—among other things—but they didn't have it, not the kind I like. While I was looking, I saw something else: Kroger brand yogurts in some odd, disturbing flavors: blueberry/cucumber, pineapple/spinach/kiwi, cherry/beet, spiced apricot/butternut squash, and lemon/zucchini.
My first thought was, "What?" I wasn't particularly tempted to try any of them, but I found them hilarious and intriguing, and they were only seventy-seven cents a piece. They were a joke and an adventure I wanted to share. I bought one of each.
At work, I sent an email inviting people to my cubicle to share some weird yogurt. Oddly, that didn't bring people rushing over. I only got two responses. One was from someone who said she'd brought yogurt for lunch, but thanks anyway. I wrote back and said I bet she didn't have blueberry/cucumber, and while she acknowledged she didn't, she wasn't tempted.
The other was my friend, Laine. She was mostly interested in the part where I'd said I'd been to the grocery that morning. Since I was there at six a.m., she wanted to know when, exactly, I could been at the grocery. I told her four-thirty, and that I'm insane. She turned me down on the yogurt too, but only because she doesn't like yogurt. And you have to admit, nothing I was offering was likely to tempt anyone.
I managed to talk my friend Sara into coming over to try them, just for the sake of trying something new, and she talked Laine into it for the same reason.
The results were mixed. We all agreed the blueberry/cucumber was horrible. I thought it started off fine, tasting like blueberry, but there was a cucumber aftertaste. The cherry/beet just tasted like cherry. The lemon/zucchini needed something, possibly more lemon. The spiced apricot and butternut squash was pretty good, mostly because of the spice, which I think was cinnamon. The pineapple/spinach/kiwi was surprisingly good, with no spinach taste at all.
Laine said they sounded like baby food combinations, and she's right. Sara said they sounded like smoothie combinations, and she's right, too. We laughed a lot. And now we all know never to eat blueberry/cucumber anything ever for as long as we live.
*The Cat, Friskies commercial
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Yesterday, I went to the grocery before work. I wanted some lemon Greek yogurt—among other things—but they didn't have it, not the kind I like. While I was looking, I saw something else: Kroger brand yogurts in some odd, disturbing flavors: blueberry/cucumber, pineapple/spinach/kiwi, cherry/beet, spiced apricot/butternut squash, and lemon/zucchini.
My first thought was, "What?" I wasn't particularly tempted to try any of them, but I found them hilarious and intriguing, and they were only seventy-seven cents a piece. They were a joke and an adventure I wanted to share. I bought one of each.
At work, I sent an email inviting people to my cubicle to share some weird yogurt. Oddly, that didn't bring people rushing over. I only got two responses. One was from someone who said she'd brought yogurt for lunch, but thanks anyway. I wrote back and said I bet she didn't have blueberry/cucumber, and while she acknowledged she didn't, she wasn't tempted.
The other was my friend, Laine. She was mostly interested in the part where I'd said I'd been to the grocery that morning. Since I was there at six a.m., she wanted to know when, exactly, I could been at the grocery. I told her four-thirty, and that I'm insane. She turned me down on the yogurt too, but only because she doesn't like yogurt. And you have to admit, nothing I was offering was likely to tempt anyone.
I managed to talk my friend Sara into coming over to try them, just for the sake of trying something new, and she talked Laine into it for the same reason.
The results were mixed. We all agreed the blueberry/cucumber was horrible. I thought it started off fine, tasting like blueberry, but there was a cucumber aftertaste. The cherry/beet just tasted like cherry. The lemon/zucchini needed something, possibly more lemon. The spiced apricot and butternut squash was pretty good, mostly because of the spice, which I think was cinnamon. The pineapple/spinach/kiwi was surprisingly good, with no spinach taste at all.
Laine said they sounded like baby food combinations, and she's right. Sara said they sounded like smoothie combinations, and she's right, too. We laughed a lot. And now we all know never to eat blueberry/cucumber anything ever for as long as we live.
*The Cat, Friskies commercial