Taylor V

Hi, I’m Taylor, and I have a minor yogurt obsession.

It all started around three years ago when I noticed that I was falling off of eating breakfast. My mornings were too rushed to have a proper sit down meal, and my typical grab and go bars had grown tired. In order to get excited about it again, I decided I would start incorporating new breakfast foods, sort of as a whimsical motivational tactic.

As it turned out, this didn’t last long. In fact, it lasted one day. After my first bite of my first breakfast, a Zero Sugar Strawberry Cheesecake Chobani, my goal to try new foods quickly shifted to a goal to try every single yogurt my local Kroger sold. See, I can get a bit of a one track mind. In that moment, yogurt was the best thing I had ever tasted, so naturally I needed to have all of it.

Thus began my journey as a yogurt connoisseur. Every morning I would try a new yogurt and catalog my thoughts in a food logging app. Yogurt became bigger than breakfast even. Oftentimes I would eat it two or three times a day, ignoring the arbitrary rules around proper meal times.

It didn’t take long for me to run out of traditional yogurts. In order to further fuel my fixation, I expanded my definition. Yogurt is complex and versatile, and it must not be constrained to fermented milk. Yogurt covered raisins, yogurt melts, yogurt dips. If it had yogurt in the product name, it was fair game.

I have now tasted hundreds of yogurt related products. In hindsight, that initial Zero Sugar Strawberry Cheesecake Chobani was not all that I built it up to be. In comparison to other yogurts, it is uninspired insipid dribble. It think that shows how special yogurt is, that even an undeniably underwhelming one can instill such a deep passion. Or maybe I just have an addictive personality.