Friday, July 2, 2010

Edy is trying to poison me!

The good part about being off your feed for a few days is that when you start eating again, you can taste everything as it really is. Sometimes this is a blessing. (That cream of mushroom soup I had yesterday at Baker Center was divine!) But sometimes it's a rude awakening. When I returned to my vaunted Edy's Mango Yogurt, the first thing I noticed was that it tasted strongly of freezer, but I suppose that's my own fault. But I also noticed a chemical taste underneath everything that I hadn't discerned before. Checking the ingredients, I discovered that one of them is propylene glycol! I'm sorry, but I don't want antifreeze in my ice cream, and so maybe I have to say goodbye to Edy once again.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

We got it made

Chalk up one for Pandora! I'd never heard of this song before, but I'm finding it deeply infectious.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Edy's Mango Yogurt

Ok, so I promised you ice cream reviews, and ice cream reviews you shall have! I told you last time how I have given up on Edy's Fun Flavors, because they now use mainly whey instead of milk or cream. But when I most recently went to Kroger to buy something from the freezer case, Edy's was the only brand on sale. What was a poor girl to do? What I did was look beyond their ice cream selection and notice their line of frozen yogurt. Mango caught my eye, and I'm glad it did!

I haven't really had much experience with frozen yogurt. My mother sometimes would buy it when it first caught on in the late 80's, but to be honest, back then "frozen yogurt" was just a code name for "extremely tepid and uninspired lowfat ice cream"; there was never anything of an actual yogurt flavor to it. I'd never guessed that in the past 20 years or so, they actually learned how to make frozen yogurt with living cultures. This stuff is fantastic, and I'm going to have to try some of their other flavors next.

Final ironic point: although their regular ice cream no longer contains much milk or cream, this frozen yogurt actually contains plenty of both!

Wednesday, June 9, 2010