PUMPKIN SPICE YOGURT, PSA

[Naughty Glitter Goddess 645]

OK, even though I know there’s a whole bunch of you that are going to disregard this PSA, here goes:

I am tired of all the sugar free yogurt flavors from OIKOS and Dannon Light & Fit. I try to eat plain Fage as much as I can but sometimes I need some flavor and I’ve just been able to start adding fancy things to my yogurt. So, imagine my excitement when I found this little gem today!

It. Is. So. Gross. I mean, right when I got the spoon close to my face, I knew it was going to be terrible, but I did it anyway. Do not eat this item. It is not food.

Now, I don’t know why I was excited in the first place. I don’t like pumpkin pie OR pumpkin spice anything. I love cinnamon & nutmeg but I lean toward apple not pumpkin. And pumpkin pie is particularly revolting as the texture is disgusting as well.

So, why would I buy this? THAT’S HOW DESPERATE I AM, PEOPLE!

You’ve been sufficiently warned. Do what you will.

[Biddy zz 🏳️🌈 1,003]

Here is New Zealand, we eat pumpkin roasted, as a vegetable. Savoury. Only. I have never quite got with the American thing of turning it into a sweet desert! And then making it into a fake-pudding-yoghurt?? Well that is just doubly wrong!, 🤣

[Naughty Glitter Goddess 645]

1 minute ago, Biddy zz said:

Here is New Zealand, we eat pumpkin roasted, as a vegetable. Savoury. Only. I have never quite got with the American thing of turning it into a sweet desert! And then making it into a fake-pudding-yoghurt?? Well that is just doubly wrong!, 🤣

I love roasted pumpkin - that is absolutely the right way to eat it!

[Biddy zz 🏳️🌈 1,003]

or Soup.

To be fair, our variety of pumpkin is sort of more dry than yours, less watery. It is MUCH harder to carve one of our pumpkins for Halloween! We don’t have that tradition, but I went to college in California and I brought home one of those pumpkin-carving-pattern books, so I persist and do it with a dry old NZ pumpkin (microwaving it a bit helps!) and our neighbours love it!

[Naughty Glitter Goddess 645]

That's so cool! I use the very small pie pumpkins when I cook and they are much less watery (not great for carving) My favorite way to use it is in a Thai pumpkin Curry full of coconut milk, garlic, and spiciness. A little sprinkle of cashews and cilantro on top makes it!

[Jingle123423 165]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Orchids&Dragons 9,047]

Thank you for taking one for the team!

[Orchids&Dragons 9,047]

56 minutes ago, Biddy zz said:

I persist and do it with a dry old NZ pumpkin (microwaving it a bit helps!) and our neighbours love it!

If they're more dried out, they probably last longer. Do you Celebrate Halloween (or an equivalent) in NZ?

[Biddy zz 🏳️🌈 1,003]

We didn’t when I was young but over the last maybe 10 years, we have begin to. The commercialisation opportunities have been embraced by retailers, and the American influence from TV is strong!

On 5 November we do Celebrate with fireworks, rather oddly, a man named Guy Fawkes trying to blow up the British Houses of Parliament in 1605! So that and Halloween are becoming a late-October early-November thing.