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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
