# Poll: Do guys eat yogurt? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 16, 2009, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270 "2009-04-16T06:43:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270/61 "2009-04-16T23:07:42Z")
I’m female and love yogurt, but so does my boyfriend. He probably likes it more than me, since he is generally the one who wants to purchase it. It’s like I love it if it is around, but he’s the one who actually thinks of buying it. This thread made me go get a dish of it from the carton in the fridge. For the curious, it’s Yoplait Yoptimal. Blueberry-blackberry flavour with green tea extracts. Has the most berries I’ve ever had in any yogurt, ever. It is too sweet, though. I think my favourite yogurt is lemon Mediterrannee yogurt. It has lemon zest in it and tastes like yogurt and also like lemon meringue pie at the same time. I have always tended to sweet/fruity yogurts but have recently, within the past few years, started liking plain/savoury yogurt-related foods too. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270/62 "2009-04-16T23:24:33Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Generally yogurt in our culture isn’t stuffed full of stupid fruit preserves. I loves me a nice mango lassi. ---
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270/63 "2009-04-16T23:40:34Z")
I love yogurt and I’m a guy. I get the blended flavored, fat-free yogurt. Fry’s still sells them in 8 oz cups (for the same price as Albertson’s’ 6 oz cups, I might add) so I buy them there. ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270/64 "2009-04-17T00:35:13Z")
My bf eats yogurt for breakfast 5 days a week. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270/65 "2009-04-17T03:01:39Z")
I eat it often. The Yoplait brand is sold in those new-born serving sizes that are stupid. Definitely designed to be a dieting anorexic’s idea of a snack. It’d take 6 of those to make a man-snack. So I eat almost any of the other brands instead. Plain is geat on baked potoes if you’re trying to go easy on the fat compared to sour cream. It doesn’t taste like sour cream, so don’t get your mouth ready for almost-sour cream; you’ll be dissappointed if you do. But it is plenty tasty by its own standards. I also like the vanilla; not too sweet. It’s far better than molten chocolate for dipping strawberries in. Chocolate overpowers the berry flavor. Not so the yogurt. As to the typical US-made fruit flavors, the good stuff is full fat and made with no artificial sweeteners. Real sugar, real \*acidophilous \*cultures, real fat, and plenty of each. That’s men’s yogurt. Low fat with too much aspartame & no tang is women’s yogurt. I like my Manly Yogurt® ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270/66 "2009-04-17T07:27:50Z")
I eat yogurt. In addition to the fruit flavors I also like to make my own savory concoctions . . . chives, grated cheese, chopped sun-dried tomatoes, etc. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270/67 "2009-04-17T08:57:47Z")
> [@Cyn](#): > > My bf eats yogurt for breakfast 5 days a week. Yeah, my boyfriend loves the stuff. He’s always trying to get me to eat it too. I think it’s okay but don’t particularly crave the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270/68 "2009-04-17T15:48:49Z")
Stonyfield Farms WHOLE MILK, plain yogurt. The one with the cream layer on top. Yumm! This is real yogurt. It doesn’t have strawberries, bananas, vanilla, sugar, lima beans, or anything else in it that is not yogurt. I think Brown Cow Farms makes a similar product, actually. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270/69 "2009-04-17T15:57:58Z")
The yogurt brand I mentioned upthread is _Gopi_, not Golpi. I found a market much nearer to my office that carries it, and yesterday I went and bought two quarts of whole-milk Gopi. This morning hubby and I each had a full cup of it, accompanied by diced ripe mango and navel orange. Yum! It spoons up dense and voluminous, almost like ice cream. It’s a lot cheaper than the Greek stuff, too. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270/70 "2009-04-17T16:01:58Z")
Guy here. I used to eat yogurt all the time until they shrank the serving size from 8oz to 6oz but kept the price the same. :mad: Now I rarely buy it. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270/71 "2009-04-17T16:03:11Z")
Hi, my name is Jon and I like pretty girls, long walks on the beach, and yogurt. ---
**Author:** ![ashtayk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@ashtayk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ashtayk)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270/72 "2009-04-17T17:51:39Z")
Yogurt eating guy here. Mostly homemade with raisins and nuts thrown in - makes for a great dessert. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270/73 "2009-04-17T17:59:31Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Plain is geat on baked potoes if you’re trying to go easy on the fat compared to sour cream. It doesn’t taste like sour cream, so don’t get your mouth ready for almost-sour cream; you’ll be dissappointed if you do. But it is plenty tasty by its own standards. Greek style is good for this, too. I usually buy Trader Joe’s brand - they sell Fage, but it’s expensive, and IMO TJ’s is at least as good. I also love their European style. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270/74 "2009-04-18T05:16:33Z")
I eat fruit flavored yogurt mixed with Grape Nuts almost every day. My older son makes and eats his own yogurt…lots of it. My younger son will eat yogurt, but doesn’t have a big habit. The only other male in the family are my grandsons. They spit it out, but they are 1 and 4 years old. That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270/75 "2009-04-18T08:11:06Z")
Well, I’ll be! Thanks for all the responses. All those yogurt ad campaign people really need to re-think their target audience, apparently :D. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270/76 "2009-04-18T14:26:40Z")
Welcome back, Madame OP. … But what’s wrong with images of pretty girls in pretty dresses twirling orgasmically with spoons in their mouths? Anyone who wants to pay good money to sprinkle those images in with my hockey game is fine with me. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270/77 "2009-04-18T15:46:41Z")
My husband eats lots of plain yogurt whenever he thinks about it. I’m trying to force myself to develop a taste for it since even the fat-free flavored yogurt has massive amounts of sugar in it. I think I’m going to use some culture from our next package of yogurt to make some of my own. I hear homemade yogurt is less sour than store-bought. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@Mister\_Owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Owl)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270/78 "2009-04-18T16:51:08Z")
I make my own. The best version is made with whole milk, reduced by 1/2 and then yogurtized. I almost always eat it plain and sometimes leave it on the counter overnight to increase the tartness. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270/79 "2009-04-18T17:09:06Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Welcome back, Madame OP. > > … > > But what’s wrong with images of pretty girls in pretty dresses twirling orgasmically with spoons in their mouths? > > Anyone who wants to pay good money to sprinkle those images in with my hockey game is fine with me. And a hello to you, **LSLGuy** 🙂 They advertise yogurt during _hockey games_?! Never having seen a hockey game, I had no idea… [Gratuitous Eddie Izzard quote] “I like my women like I like my coffee: dark, bitter and … with a spoon in them” [/Gratuitous Eddie Izzard quote] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-guys-eat-yogurt/493270.md?page=3)