What is this crap? OOOH look portable yogurt! Granted you can eat it without a spoon, a bonus while driving, but those comercials make it sound like you can stick it in your back pack and go for a hike. The stuff still needs refridgeration!
I guess this is a rant, but not nasty enough for the pit, jsut curious if anyone else finds the whole idea silly.
Take a go-gurt in your hand, give on end a squeze.
Think about the dirty old man who invented this thinking about marketing it to teen girls.
It’s yogurt in a tube, so obnoxious 5th graders can take their snack out of their lunch boxes at the bus stop, and stomp on it to send disgusting dairy product flying in all directions. (It sort of works on the same theory as stomping ketchup packets, but the the volume of the contents is much greater, so you can spray a much larger area and find more victims.)
Mothers of the world, think about this next time you buy this overpriced junk for your little sweetums.
hehe… Hasn’t quite arrived here yet, that is the UK, but Fromesiter? You paint such a vivid picture of it I think I already know.
Yeah. Because it has no other use. And we only buy it so our little monsters can plague upstanding citizens. :rolleyes:
I buy whatever portable yogurt product is cheapest. I buy it because I can’t stand to eat yogurt with a spoon. I hate the texture.
I also buy it because it’s a hell of a lot easier to squeeze a tube of the stuff in my kid’s mouth than it is to spoon-feed it to him.
It would be here that I insert a puzzled smilie faced gif if I knew how: :confuse
You hate the texture of a… spoon?
Wholly innocent q
They’re pretty good frozen, too. I’m not a huge yogurt fan but I do rather like yogurt-in-a-tube for some reason.
I like 'em. Open an end, squeeze… mmmmmm
One benefit is that you can eat 'em while you’re reading a book. If I bought regular yogurt and wanted to hold the book open while reading, I could do it, but it’s not as comfortable. But with these (if they’re the ones I’m thinking of) I can hold onto it and eat it while reading, no problem (tougher to do with a spoon)…
Mom buys those by the dozen! You gotta squoosh 'em or shake 'em before eating cuz they separate sometimes.
–Tim
Are you one of my kids?!? 
I buy them two or three boxes at a time. My kids love 'em. We take them to the pool, frozen (in the cooler), and then they are the right consistency for lunch. It’s just regular yogurt, minus the fruit pieces.
IMHO, they’re just okay. I like to have hunks of fruit in my yogurt.
I think that you are supposed to freeze the stuff before you take it in your backpack. That way, it is thawed but still cold by lunch time. Or something like that. Kinsey has the idea.
Back when I was working, I’d often take yogurt to eat for breaks. Occasionally, I’d forget to pack a plastic spoon–:mad:. Therefore, I can see the benefits of spoonless yogurt. Are the packets fairly easy to open, or would I just be swearing even more because I didn’t bring a pair of scissors?
You could also probably freeze the things and eat them like Flavorice pops. Ah, I see whiterabbit had that idea, too. I’ll have to try it.
YWalker, don’t blame the container. Some kids on a footbridge once dropped yogurt (in its traditional container) onto my parents’ car. Yuck! Seems that there are always some kids out there with a penchant for yogurt mischief. Parents should always supervise their kids’ yogurt use.
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Some kids on a footbridge once dropped yogurt (in its traditional container) onto my parents’ car.
When I was in High School There were kids who would throw yogurt at substitute drivers on the school bus. They used to through batteries and set off stink bombs and m-80’s too. As a result we only had one sub that would take drive our bus, an ex-prision gaurd named Duke.
In reference to the OP I think go-gurt is great stuff. The kids that I babysit for love it and they can open it themselves. They just pop open like Otter pops. They are also a yummy treat on a hot sunny day (it was 104 today) when frozen. I dig it.
So the condensation can saturate everything around it. Wonderful.
OK, I went to the store today and noticed that Yoplait makes two brands of “spoon-free” yogurt. There is the aforementioned “GoGurt”, which comes in some rather disgusting-sounding “kid-oriented” flavors, and now the new, more “adult”, Yoplait “Exprèsse” (yes, with the stupid backwards accent), which comes in the more traditional fruit flavors and also seems to contain (very small) chunks of fruit.
I bought some “Exprèsse” (if I want to taste bubble gum, I’ll go buy some bubble gum, thank you very much) and stuck it in the freezer. Yummy, and the tubes are easy to open, too! This certainly beats my sister’s and my childhood idea of freezing yogurt in the traditional cartons and chipping it out with grapefruit spoons!
Well, Rilchiam, I guess you can’t have everything! Portable yogurt has it’s price. :). Perhaps that’s why they show the tube sticking almost all the way out of the top of the backpack on the back of the box. It’s not to show off the product–it’s to keep everything from getting wet!
Ah, that’s the stuff I had, not the GoGurt. mmmm… Yoplait with me… mmmmmm
No, no, no…I hate the texture of yogurt. You eat it on a spoon, it gets its slimy slithery ickiness all over the inside of your mouth and it just STAYS there…but yogurt TASTES good and I know it’s good for me.
And that is why I like processed tubed yogurt product.
this shit called “Yonique.” It’s in a cylindrical container with a circular base on the end. You open it and drink it… WTF???
I’ll stick with the Expresse, thankyouverymuch.
“Processed tubed yogurt product”?
Love that line!
Yogurt-in-a-tube sorta reminds me of Campbell’s Ready-To-Eat soup. I mean, yogurt is already really darn easy. Sure, you can forget to mix it when it’s the fruit-on-the-bottom kind, and then it would be really yucky, but come on, people! Yogurt is darn-near idiot-proof! It’s already fast & easy! It doesn’t need to be faster & easier! It’s not technology! It’s just yogurt!
Whew. Thanks. I needed to get that off my chest. 
Actually, I was distressed to recently discover that yogurt really isn’t all that good for you, at least not the stuff that isn’t clearly labeled “no sugar-no fat.” (which I assume go-gurt isn’t.) Near as I can tell from reading the label on a tub of Breyer’s Yogurt, the only actual advantage of yogurt over pudding are the live cultures–the way they make yogurt taste good is the time-honered method of adding lots and lots of sugar.
Although those active cultures do have nice tummy-settling properties, at least for me. You’re right, though, that much of the popular yogurt has enormous amounts of sugar. I’ve noticed over the years that Dannon keeps adding more, so much that it’s just too sweet for me. And I hate the no-fat kind - using skim milk to make yogurt results in a liquid, not a semisolid, so the manufacturers have to add huge amounts of gelatin, food starch and other thickeners to give it some sort of body. My compromise: Dannon Premium Plain in the red-and-white. It’s low-fat, not nonfat, so they only need to add a little pectin to make it thick (but FWIW the package says it’s only 150 calories, vs. I think 100 for the nonfat). I then add a single packet of Equal if I want it a little sweet, and sometimes some Boyajian’s orange, lemon or lime oil for flavor.
It’s very fresh-tasting on its own, too.
Oh, and for convenience, there’s always Columbo, which has that nifty little spoon built into the lid.