On Friday, March 1, 2019 at 8:27:59 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 20:25:01 -0500, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
> >On 2019-03-01 7:51 p.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >> On 3/1/2019 5:52 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> >>
> >>> Another commercial I wonder about is for a product called Go-Gurt.
> >>> It's yogurt that comes in a tube which you freeze and put in a kid's
> >>> lunchbox.Â* By the time lunch rolls around it will be thawed.Â* Do kids
> >>> really want yogurt in their lunchboxes?
> >>>
> >>> Jill
> >>
> >> Maybe today, kids are bought up different.Â* I was well into adulthood
> >> before I every tasted yogurt, but now, there are many varieties in the
> >> store.Â* Must sell, they give it plenty of shelf space.
> >
> >
> >I used to hear about yogurt in Three Stooges programs, but never saw it
> >for sale here until I went to university. There was not much selection
> >then, just plain, a few fruit flavoured or fruit in the bottom. Now they
> >have Swiss, Greek and Balkan styles, multiple branads and multiple
> >flavours. My wife prefers Balkan style and gets Vanilla for me.
>
> I didn't know there were western countries that didn't eat yogurt
> much.

America (apart from ethnic enclaves) up until at least the mid 1970s.

I never tasted yogurt until I went to college in 1975. I can't recall
seeing it in the stores in the Detroit suburbs where I grew up (but
it was more than 40 years ago, so I think my memory gets a pass on
that).

Cindy Hamilton