Greek Yoghurt: A Tribute

Ah Yogurt. You fill the refrigerated dairy section almost as much as you fill me with guilt. I know how good you are for me, especially since I'm a woman and yogurt is especially important for women to eat. WebMD says that Yogurt is full of probiotics, may help prevent osteoporosis, reduce the risk of high blood pressure, "helps the gut", helps you feel fuller, and may discourage vaginal infections. So yogurt helps prevent a lot of seriously disgusting things, but despite all of that, I have never been able to force myself to like it. Honestly here, I'm pretty much an ace at making myself like foods, but that has just not been so with yogurt. It doesn't matter what brand I get, or what flavor, or what shtick they're pulling this time, yogurt is just always disgusting to me. But that all changed when I found greek yoghurt.


What is greek yogurt? you might wonder. Well, as far as I can tell it's made a different way (involving muslin somehow which is intriguing enough in itself from a fabric design point of view), and is creamier and tarter. Also apparently if you have a recipe that calls for greek yoghurt - don't you DARE substitute with regular yogurt - you will regret it. But when it gets down to it, I don't really care what the difference is, it is just delicious. Especially when you get it with honey in it or on the side, which seems to be a common option in the greek yoghurt arena. The best brands I have found so far are FAGE Total, and Oikos (which is made by Stonyfield Farm and is organic - it's delicious). Seriously you must go try some - I don't care if you don't get the honey kind, but I'm just sayin, it is really good. I just finished a cup of the Oikos honey yoghurt, and enjoyed it so much that I felt the need to make a salon post about it, and to write a little haiku in honor of it. So here goes.

Yogurt, once so gross
now greek and honey, num nums
"help my gut" today