Greek Yogurt
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- detritus0
“shit just got real in the yogurt thread”.
—cottonmade me laugh out a lot louder than I would've liked.
- detritus0
I fucking love Turkish yoghurt, which there's fuckloads of on sale around here in North London. Varying fat levels and styles - nothing like that pishy wet Greek crap.
I think I eat about a litre of the stuff a week - it's sort of replaced most cheese for me these last couple of years.
- detritus0
I think I watched a video about that guy a couple of months back.
afaik he was reacting against the type of yoghurt common here in Britain and perhaps the US too, which is just liquidy - more like a light cream than anything.
That *is* known differently in these parts, whether or not that is relevant to where you come from
- Continuity0
North American yoghurts are like in the UK: runny soured cream, mostly.
On the topping of yoghurt marketing, though, one big thing in Canada is so-called 'Balkan-style' yoghurt. Which — as you can expect — is nothing like the yoghurt I saw in Serbia in the two years I was living there.
- < Kinda cares. I like a good yoghurt with fruit and honey, on occasion.Continuity
- scarabin0
it's a really good protein source, with low fat
good for lifters
- Continuity0
It's also versatile in all kinds of dishes: salads, soups, sauces, stews. Good stuff.
- CALLES0
im going to say it
FUCK YOGURT!!! ALL TYPES! FUCK EM
- eoin0
I'm very angry about some undefined thing.
- ETM0
The opposite of runny yogurt, here in western Canada (maybe all Canada), when I was a kid, a couple dairies used to put gelatin in their yogurt. So it came out in chunks like jello. Thankfully that stopped.
- < Who fuckin' cares?ETM
- Hm, nope. Never had that in Ontario or the Maritimes.Continuity
- You're lucky. Palm Diaries was big on it.ETM
- Gnash0
I call it Greek yogurt.
It stays.
- sureshot0
I only use greek yogurt to make tzatziki.
- wagshaft0
First world problems thread?
- cotton0
It's definitely a market exploitation in the US (can't speak for the UK) that's getting out of control. The fact that you can't define what it is that makes it Greek means companies can use all kinds of artificial thickeners to achieve the desired viscosity. Most ignorant consumers will hop on the trend and buy it up thinking it's healthy or good for you.
Call it labne in the US and see how much less is purchased/sold.
- _niko0
Yeah Greek yogurt is yogurt made in Greece. Thick and delicious.
Americans have a shitty rip off version of Greek style yogurt that isn't even close.
Turks can go suck a dick. :)
- coldarchon0
Omg Beeswax can you stop spreading bullshit?
"Yogurt is invented by nomadic Turks in central asia and have been carried to anatolia and europe with mass immigration of Turkic tribes around 10th century."
Shut the fuck up if you have no idea. But this is pure misinformation.
ALL bacteria used in yogurt or kefir derive genetically from a tree in Tibet. PERIOD.
It was invented there 2000 BC, mentioned 500 BC in India and Iran, while turks were still nomads and finally introduced to the making of yogurt by successors of the Thracian tribes when they entered European ground. And in 1600 AC a turkish medic used a Bulgarian yogurt for a French king. This means there are more than 3600 years between the turkish invention and the invention in Tibet.
Just because the west uses a turkish word it doesn't mean it is a turkish invention. Your facts are nothing but fantasy and wishful folklore ..
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http://stream1.gifso…Miguex - Tibet, really? Yogurt just happens when milk gets infected with a certain bacteria, and could have happened many waysmonospaced
- happened in many ways in many places at different timesmonospaced
- of course it happened in many places, but the bacteria used today comes from Tibetcoldarchon
- okaaay, thenmonospaced
- shit just got real in the yogurt thread.cotton
- Your 1600AC bullshit is far off mister. "The use of yogurt by medieval Turks is recorded in the books Diwan Lughat al-Turk by Mahmud Kashgari and Kutadgu Bilig written in the 11th century"Beeswax
- Mahmud Kashgari and Kutadgu Bilig written in the 11th century"Beeswax
- QBN's new low. Fighting over the origin of yogurt.ETM
- that's still more than 3000 years behind?coldarchon
- hahaha
- Miguex0
Not that I care that much about Yoghurt, (I do care a little bit, because it does help my muscular development when eaten prior to my african dance class)
From an objective perspective, the moment you see the words 'Greek Yogurt' on the packaging, you have exactly that. GREEK YOGURT.
Even if it the entire nation of Greece is lactose intolerant, that's the name it's recognized for. Just like FRENCH fries, CHINESE Food, etc.
Otherwise, you better be calling this chinese food, because we all know that italians never invented spaghetti
- (I do care a little bit, because it does help my muscular development when eaten prior to my african dance class) - wincotton