Oui Yogurt

[ysabetwordsmith]

Yoplait has a yogurt version that just appeared in stores near me.  Oui is a French-style yogurt in a glass jar, considerably more expensive than any of my usual selections, but sooooo good.  It is fully set with a thick, silky texture. The fruit is on the bottom, but the top layer also tastes like fruit even before stirring -- a distinct improvement over the Dannon fruit-on-the-bottom which was never any good until stirred, and nowadays the texture is gloppy and awful then, so I gave up on that version.  Also when you peel the foil off the cap, there's a happy little message on the bottom side.  Today's said "Dance in the mirror."  (Yes, I've done that.)  I love seeing little prosocial things like that.  Local-America doesn't seem to be reusing the jars, but T-America would.  First I tried the black cherry, today strawberry, both excellent.  I've seen blueberry and I think a few other flavors.  So my new rule is that I can buy one of these as a treat, along with the cheap stuff.  Yoplait Original is decent, and I love Annie's. The latter actually makes a vanilla that has flavor,  not just equivalent to plain, which I discovered by accident.  Anyway, if you like solid yogurt, try the Oui.  Tres bon!

Comments

[gingicat]

One of my expensive treats is Siggi yogurt, which is billed as Icelandic style. More solid than Greek yogurt, and I like the way they blend the fruit. But, oy, expensive.

[bairnsidhe]

I shall definitely try that! I love solid yogurt and fruit-on-the-bottom but I have a hard time with slimy textures (I'm looking at you, Dannon) and certain types of sourness. Also, I'm always looking for new materials to craft with and the happy message foil and glass jar combo is giving me ideas.

[thnidu]

MMMM, thanks for the tips! I do like Greek yogurt— nonfat, plain— mostly to mix my own fresh fruit into. And/or granola.

[cmcmck]

French set yoghurt is glorious.

If you have an Aldi store to hand, you'll find they do a version.

[thewayne]

My wife is unhappy because it appears that our Albertsons may have stopped carrying Sigi's yogurt, hopefully it's a 'temporary out of stock' situation. That's the problem with living in an extremely rural area: we only have three grocery choices, the other two are a small local chain and Walmart. The local chain has their own tortillaria, so we always have amazing tortillas, which is wonderful. And since Albertsons opened, now Walmart gets 5% of our custom instead of 95%.