So look at the yogurt case at the grocery store. The most common variety of any type of yogurt—Greek, Skyr, … American (?)—is plain. That makes perfect sense. Yogurt is a basic food and a lot of people eat it plain or use plain yogurt in cooking.
And then there will usually be some kind of flavored yogurt, to be eaten by itself, usually as part of a breakfast, snack, or dessert.
All that makes sense. What doesn’t make sense to me is that the most common flavoring in flavored yogurt is vanilla. Now yogurt goes with a lot of different flavors, mostly fruit flavors.
But the one thing yogurt doesn’t go with is vanilla. Vanilla yogurt is repulsive, disgusting. Which of you degenerates have made vanilla the most common flavoring for yogurt? What’s wrong with you? Who harmed you so badly that you would support the existence of such a thing, and so much that it’s the most common type of yogurt, after plain yogurt?
Now, clearly there’s a lot of hyperbole here. But seriously, vanilla yogurt is terrible. Who is eating it?
Regarding vanilla yogurt, I’ll happily eat it if that’s what’s in the fridge, no complaints. But if I’m making selections at the store, I’m going to make sure I grab some peach, no doubt about it.
Vanilla’s ok, but I prefer plain unflavored full fat yoghurt, to which I add dried cherries and some maple syrup, and let them blend for a few hours before having it for lunch.
This degenerate’s recommendation: get the fattest vanilla yogurt you can, then sprinkle a dusting of ground espresso and/or chocolate on it - priceless
Being diabetic most yogurt for me is really just over-sugared dessert I can’t eat any of. And I almost don’t do artificial sweeteners for (admittedly arbitrary) doctrinal reasons. I eat a lot of plain full-fat as you might imagine. Cabot Greek being my current favorite.
I’ve also found that of the flavored yogurts in at least some brands, the vanilla is the least sugar-laden. So I can have a decent serving and enjoy it, not just a teaspoon of the disgustingly sweet fruit compote-glopped HFCS-infested other flavors on offer.
Call me a degenerate as you will, but I’ll stand my ground.
And no, I don’t find vanilla to be the most common flavor. Of the dozen brands/types on offer at the store, everybody offers a blueberry and a peach. Barely half of them seem to have a vanilla.
The heavily sugared yogurts also seem to overlap with the ones that are thickened with gelatin. That isn’t an issue for me, but it would be for vegetarians. (I used to work with a woman who gave up eating meat when she was 7 years old and found out what it was; she always had a Yoplait with her lunch, and I was not about to tell her what one of the ingredients was.)
Just because the OP doesn’t like vanilla yogurt doesn’t mean other people don’t, either.
