the obession with overseas yogurt

did anyone notice that all of a sudden everyone became obsessed with yogurt from other countries?

it really started with a greek yogurt specific obsession. i first heard about it from my sister, who i think is a pretty good role model for healthy eating. she's not an over the top fanatic, maintains a healthy body weight and exercises regularly, and eats organic when possible. to me, she is a pretty reliable source for me personally. except the time when she and i were trying to get in shape and lose weight for her wedding, and i found myself eating myoplex protein bars around the clock. gross, i could never eat one of those ever again and can still taste the chocolate peanut butter bars in my mouth.

there is a huge joke with my sister eating greek yogurt, specifically fage (pronounced fah yee, even though i still continue to fah gee) . during her pregnancy, she didn't want to eat ice cream with pickles, white castle hamburgers (like my own mom did during her pregnancy with me, which might explain something about my eating habits), or really any outlandish cravings. all she wanted was this greek yogurt fage.

pregnant sister + fage =

8 lbs. 14 oz. and 20 1/2 inches long baby (and the obsession of my life, my niece isabel)

okay, okay. this wasn't just a plug do say how freaking AWESOME my niece is (who is now 6 months old)- but to just prove a point of what eating an excessive amount of greek yogurt can do.

back to the point of this blog....

so fage can be somewhat considered the pioneer of the greek yogurt phase, but then all of these other alleged greek yogurts came out of the woodwork, like oikos, chobani, and greek gods. they all claim to be "the original greek yogurt"- but who is to decide that, really?

now it doesn't end there. so i started to notice that all these other random countries started jumping on the international yogurt bandwagon: neilson (somewhere in great britain), wallaby (australia), yeo valley (russia), and i've seen swiss, german, and sweedish.

i remember when yogurt selection was simple. then they went sugar free. then they went low carb. then they went organic. then they added "helps regulate your system". then they added probiotics. then they added foreign countries.

i don't know who is this alleged "they" i speak of, but whoever it is, it sure made this pretty simple food pretty complicated.