# Why is vanilla the most common flavor for yogurt? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [May 29, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vanilla-the-most-common-flavor-for-yogurt/965315 "2022-05-29T18:39:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vanilla-the-most-common-flavor-for-yogurt/965315/81 "2022-06-02T19:10:27Z")
There is a British RP pronunciation audio file here: > **[yogurt - Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yogurt)** It sounds like “YO-g@t” with the “@” representing a schwa to me. Two distinct syllables. The “r” is missing in the non-rhotic accent of RP. (And note this is one particular type of British accent, the ones that Americans usually think of when they think of “British” – other British accents pronounce the “r,” often as a tap or postalveolar approximant.) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vanilla-the-most-common-flavor-for-yogurt/965315/82 "2022-06-02T19:21:36Z")
I remember a friend’s kid asking for gogurt. My friend answered that kid could have gogurt later. I thought it was cutesy baby talk. Later, I went to the kitchen to grab a beer. Friend asked me to bring back a gogurt for kid. I cracked up when I looked in the fridge and saw gogurt. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vanilla-the-most-common-flavor-for-yogurt/965315/83 "2022-06-02T19:31:50Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Later, I went to the kitchen to grab a beer. Friend asked me to bring back a gogurt for kid. I cracked up when I looked in the fridge and saw gogurt. I went to the mountain to seek the wisdom of the Oracle there. “Do geese see God ?” I asked him. He was not amused. “Does @bobot eat Gogurt ?” He gave me a wry smile, and then he bid me leave his mountain with due haste. The life of a Degenerate Erstwhile Buddhist. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vanilla-the-most-common-flavor-for-yogurt/965315/84 "2022-06-02T22:20:24Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I cracked up when I looked in the fridge and saw gogurt. For years my now-deceased first wife and I shared an in-joke. Whenever somebody was going on about their obscure dietary restrictions, their need for “health” food which usually back in the day meant a diet mostly of pills and wheat grass, etc., we’d comment “You need some macrobiotic goat yogurt to go with that.” Usually just shortened between us to “Macrobiotic goat yogurt”. Like “nuke the gay whales”, it was shorthand that pointed out the silliness of the uber-fussy non-sensible eating of some folks. Then when Whole Foods first burst on the scene we discovered they actually sell (or sold then) actual honest-to-Og goat yogurt. Not macrobiotic of course, since that’s actually a 99% vegetarian diet. But close enough for jokings’ sake. Reality keeps passing my formerly over-the-top humor. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vanilla-the-most-common-flavor-for-yogurt/965315/85 "2022-06-02T23:45:19Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > But the one thing yogurt doesn’t go with is vanilla. Vanilla yogurt is repulsive, disgusting. Sez you. Vanilla yogurt is yummy! ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vanilla-the-most-common-flavor-for-yogurt/965315/86 "2022-06-03T01:49:30Z")
I prefer lemon and raspberry yogurts, but vanilla is fine. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vanilla-the-most-common-flavor-for-yogurt/965315/87 "2022-06-03T02:11:01Z")
I like plain yogurt, and yogurt with almost any soft sour fruit (blueberry, raspberry, peach, mango, etc.) and yogurt with maple syrup. I don’t care for yogurt with coffee, vanilla, chocolate, or similar. They clash. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vanilla-the-most-common-flavor-for-yogurt/965315/88 "2022-06-03T03:45:44Z")
I agree with coffee and chocolate clashing. Vanilla, for me, goes excellent with yogurt. Same with spices like cardamom and nutmeg. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vanilla-the-most-common-flavor-for-yogurt/965315/89 "2022-06-03T11:13:49Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > “You need some macrobiotic goat yogurt to go with that.” Heh. My gf has been “eating healthier” by adding things like chia seeds to her smoothies, etc. I do much of the cooking, and I’ve been calling her foods with crazy add-ins “Power” foods. So, she’ll ask me to make her a “Power Smoothie” for breakfast and I will. On Sundays she likes me to make her an omelette, sometimes with eggs, other times with egg whites from a carton. This has led to her asking me for a “White Power-Omelette”. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vanilla-the-most-common-flavor-for-yogurt/965315/90 "2022-06-04T20:19:19Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > “Does @bobot eat Gogurt ?” OK, I had to quickly scan this thread to see if maybe I drunk posted in it and just didn’t remember. 🥳 The kitchen of bobot strictly forbids Gogurt. And yogurt, sour cream, cream cheese and “ranch” goop. Leaves more room for beer. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vanilla-the-most-common-flavor-for-yogurt/965315/91 "2022-06-04T20:35:10Z")
I just thought “bobot” and “Gogurt” sounded particularly cool together. Gun to my head … I _still_ do. But I, in no way, intended to goad you into a Detailed Dairy Diatribe 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vanilla-the-most-common-flavor-for-yogurt/965315/92 "2022-06-04T23:18:36Z")
Combine them to get boebert ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vanilla-the-most-common-flavor-for-yogurt/965315/93 "2022-06-05T12:57:34Z")
:shudder: Fruit at the bottom ? Check. Vanilla ? Not by any commonly accepted definition. Repulsive ? Check. Disgusting ? Check. Followers are degenerates ? Check. By jove, I think you’ve got it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vanilla-the-most-common-flavor-for-yogurt/965315/94 "2022-06-05T14:18:09Z")
Strained (“Greek”) or not? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vanilla-the-most-common-flavor-for-yogurt/965315.md?page=4)