Cindy Hamilton > wrote:
> 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
>

I never had it either until well into adulthood, and I grew up in the 70s
and 80s.