{"id":200,"date":"2006-08-29T06:58:35","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T06:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sararosso.com\/index.php\/2006\/08\/29\/eating-humble-pie\/"},"modified":"2017-10-17T08:03:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T15:03:46","slug":"eating-humble-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/29\/eating-humble-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating humble pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Music: British <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lilyallenmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lily Allen<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Smile&#8221; &#8211; very singable. You can hear other songs from her album on the site. A better use of pop reggae than that blond heiress.<\/li>\n<li>Really interesting graph about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~ina\/infographics\/starbucks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McDonald&#8217;s and Starbuck&#8217;s world diffusion and domination<\/a> &#8211; Notice the lack of Starbucks in Italy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I wrote in a previous blog post about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/22\/mixtures-nature-probably-never-intended\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">combinations mother nature never intended<\/a>, and I even went so far as to accuse the Italians of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/11\/a-salad-to-make-an-italian-child-run-to-its-mother\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">being afraid of variety<\/a> in their food.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now I have to eat my words. Literally.<\/p>\n<p>When I took public transportation every day, I picked up the daily free paper to see what was new. I also liked to check them because many times my company&#8217;s ads were in there. This time, I saw an advertisement for a set of products, something that so challenged everything that I believed about the Italians, that I thought it was a <em>Pesce d&#8217;Aprile<\/em>, an April Fool&#8217;s Joke. I rushed immediately out to buy them if only to prove that they existed and it wasn&#8217;t a cruel joke.<\/p>\n<p>Some background: Italy is a country that loves its yogurt. Creamy, lowfat, fruit in pieces, plain unsweetened, plain sweetened, natural, artificial, with whole grains, liquid or whipped. And don&#8217;t get me started on the multitude of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Probiotics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">probiotic<\/a> drinks.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally the manufacturers are trying to outdo each other in order to get their products noticed in the dairy aisle. But I thought these were too outlandish even for us Americans, the &#8220;great bastardizers of all things food.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WARNING: Look away from the screen if you have any delicate sensibilities.<\/p>\n<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.sararosso.com\/images\/yogurt1.jpg\" \/><\/center>As you can see, there is a strawberry pictured on the left, and it is clearly a tomato on the right. Yes, a tomato. You are not hallucinating. Tomato and strawberry yogurt. <em>Frutta e verdura<\/em> &#8211; fruit and vegatables. And hey, it&#8217;s low fat!<\/p>\n<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.sararosso.com\/images\/yogurt2.jpg\" \/><\/center>There were other flavors &#8211; <em>finocchio e ananas<\/em> (fennel and pineapple), <em>mela e spinaci<\/em> (apple and spinach), and <em>mango e zucca<\/em> (mango and pumpkin), which I didn&#8217;t pick up. I noticed they picked fruit and veggies with compatible color combinations, so there wouldn&#8217;t be any weird-colored yogurt. One thing I noticed that was weird was that the nutritional information was almost identical for each of the flavors, which is strange because the one with spinach should have more protein, etc.<\/p>\n<p>So you want to know how it tasted. Of course, I didn&#8217;t buy them just for the photo.<\/p>\n<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.sararosso.com\/images\/yogurt3.jpg\" \/><\/center>I think my favorite (if I have to choose one) is the spinach and apple. You could definitely taste the spinach but the rather tart apple flavor overrode it, even if it was a bit artifical. Fennel and ananas wasn&#8217;t bad but I can usually only take fennel in small doses and is best fresh for me. Tomato and strawberry also tasted of mainly strawberry. I haven&#8217;t gotten up the courage to try the mango and pumpkin one, though mango yogurt appeals to me on its own.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomo.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">company&#8217;s site<\/a> doesn&#8217;t even mention these products, though it does mention the site is under construction (which, by the way, is so 1996).I&#8217;m not sure their new product introduction is working as they planned. So far, the only person I know who has bought and tried these yogurts is me, an American and self-proclaimed bastardizer of food.<\/p>\n<p>When I brought them home to try and showed them to S, he was immediately disgusted and told me I was crazy. My reasoning that it was an Italian company offering them didn&#8217;t sway him.<\/p>\n<p>When I saw the advertisement at work, I immediately showed it to my colleagues who all couldn&#8217;t believe it as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, the question is, who else is pushing the bastardizing limit of food where you are? Does anyone know an Italian that a) has tried these, and b) likes them?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music: British Lily Allen&#8216;s &#8220;Smile&#8221; &#8211; very singable. You can hear other songs from her album on the site. A better use of pop reggae than that blond heiress. Really interesting graph about McDonald&#8217;s and Starbuck&#8217;s world diffusion and domination &#8211; Notice the lack of Starbucks in Italy I wrote in a previous blog post&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/29\/eating-humble-pie\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-italian-culture","7":"category-food","8":"category-italy","9":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uB1-3e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1224,"url":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/a-wedding-in-sicily-and-a-sicilian-food-feast-the-desserts\/","url_meta":{"origin":200,"position":0},"title":"A Wedding in Sicily and a Sicilian Food Feast: The Desserts","author":"Sara, Ms. Adventures in Italy","date":"March 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"At the end of my last post about the A Wedding in Sicily and a Sicilian Food Feast! 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