Monday, August 11, 2003
Your Own Yogurt Experience
I just read this on the back of my Dannon yogurt, “Room in every cup for your favorite mix-ins...Create your own yogurt experience.”
WTF?!!
I’m all for the yogurt experience but does this mean they now sell less in the little tub for the same money? Is this what’s counterbalancing when they go on sale, which I’m more sure is related to the fact that dairy goes bad.
Help! Does anyone have really old yogurt in the back of their fridge or in their crisper? No shame here—this is important research. This yogurt tub, the standard single serving, is 6oz. Did there used to be more? Or did marketers just think of a way to make the empty gaseous space a “bonus” for the consumer?
What does your yogurt say? When did the fantastic pleasure of the mix-in yogurt experience get added to the ‘information’ on the package?
Two things: I am digging plain yogurt with peace cereal and honey mixed in. nummy stuff. But right now I’m eating strawberry lowfat Dannon and I just dropped a yogurty strawberry piece onto my office chair. not nummy. But I still love me some fruit on the bottom, especially b/c of my point #2*.
*Point #2: It disturbs me that the pink natural coloring in the non fat Dannon strawberry-ish yogurt is made from the beetles they get dye from. Knowledge courtesy Fast Food Nation. Why would a company think that I prefer my food pink over not eating bugs? I don’t actually care, I just wish the FDA would make them put it right on the ingredient list.
If I were a marketer for Dannon, I would also indicate that the plastic resealable lids are great not just for when you don’t want to eat the whole thing, but for not smelling the yogurt go stinky as it sits in the trash can under your desk.
Ouch, I think I just felt my soul leave my body.
I finished The Secret Life of Bees
[Technical Sidenote: I’m going to learn how to make a little database well of quotes and rotate them through with php. Please wish me luck.]
I have a weird thing with crying. I normally can’t, in a (probably) unhealthy way. But I cry for movies, tv, books, songs and occasionally when another person is crying. Sometimes I seek out things that will make me cry, especially if I have a cold. Nothing like spicy food and a good cry for the sinuses. There are certain chemicals released only by crying and it’s good for you.
The book has a lot to do with the bond of mothers and daughters (as the back cover will tell you), the tension, forgiveness. There’s a great quote about how hard forgiveness is, that made me laugh. I’d just botch it without the book here, so I’ll hold off til tonight when I’m home again.
I really want to recommend it to my mom but she’s not a big reader, and often takes things too literally. Perhaps it’s that she has a very complicated filter for which I still don’t completely understand the rules. It’s easier to keep something to myself than to proclaim its greatness only to have it pronounced “nice” in a polite way.
Oy. I was thinking earlier today about Newton’s first law of motion as a parallel to human feeling and behaviour. [sorry, behavior, i’m not in ireland yet.] When hurt, anger or even love begin they tend to keep going, on and on until a greater feeling sends it in another direction. Sometimes it happens slowly, like friction. Sometimes it’s abrupt.
Why is it so hard to let go of hurt or disappointment and let it be replaced with relief and understanding? Why is it easier to roll hard feelings out towards that which has offended us rather than roll the pain away to make room for healthier feelings? Perhaps because the hurt is ours, it becomes ourself, the armor and lens and language that we use.
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