[Discontinued] Oh, being a blogger is so tough some days... hehehe, just kidding, but there are times when I try a smidge too hard, as is the case with Oikos.
Wait, first, let me use my mastery of the obvious to state that 2012 will be the year of greek frozen yogurt. I mean, come on, greek yogurt is steadily gaining market share, in part due to the protein content, so there's no reason greek frozen yogurt won't take the same trend now that
Ciao Bella is jumping in the ring. Heck, even Hannaford's has a
housebrand of greek froyo (review will be up later this week).
Ok, I'm all over the place here, so let's introduce Oikos. Stonyfield is pretty proud of Oikos as it is the only "nationally available" organic greek yogurt. Now Stonyfield doesn't mess around a ton with ice cream and froyo, but you can find them in some stores. Seeing a chance to get ahead of everyone else, frozen Oikos came out at the end of the 2011 summer.
Here it is, Stonyfield OIKOS organic nonfat greek frozen yogurt, the honey variety. Some on you might be thinking "wow, a honey flavor, that's so unique!". Others might be going "
Rodzilla loves the blueberry, why not start there?". Well, both of those statements played into it. I knew it should be good and it's a fairly new product, so I thought I would spice things up a little. I mean, come on, I've had vanilla honey granola froyo from
Haagen-Daz,
Turkey Hill, and
Pierre's Yovation (and that's in order of decreasing honey flavor), so why not try this one.
So we have another tasty looking probiotic Yovation with live and active yogurt cultures. I don't know any specifics about how the cultures in a serving of frozen yogurt hold up against a serving of regular yogurt, but what ever it is, it should be good for you.
Today's review is no exception, though I did have help to get here in the form of a bright yellow 50% off sticker. I can't say I would have made this Häagen-Dazs leap of faith on my own, but now that I'm here, I'm glad I forgot about the past and tried something new. See, if you are like me, frozen yogurt makes you think of one thing: soft serve TCBY. I remember long ago when TCBY came to our mall and I remember trying it...it wasn't horrible, but I'll never forgot that awful aftertaste. Granted, I was young and my tastes were limited, but the experience was powerful enough to keep me from ever wanting to try frozen yogurt again.
WOW! OVERLOAD is the right word at the moment. Fried Ice Cream is listed as "Cinnamon caramel light ice cream swirled with honey caramel with cinnamon tostada pieces". Let's just say I feel a little off right now. Granted it is very humid, and the overload was still warm from the trip back from Walmart ....and maybe I ate it a smidge too fast, but whoa, I'm on overload myself. I didn't even eat that much!