the power of advertising

Spurred on by two coupons in my Sunday circulars, I was moved today to try a new product...Yoplait Nouriche.

I should have known from the name alone that it would suck, like the semi-nutritional quasi-yogurt for the nouveau riche bullshit that it is, but I was somehow influenced by tv ads featuring unharried women with blow outs and clean cars drinking this stuff as they sashayed from one activity to another. I figured, well, I like yogurt, and I go from one activity to another, so maybe this is the stuff for me.

Wrong.

First of all, whatever this stuff is, it's not yogurt. It's sort of like bad yogurt diluted with skim milk, corn starch, and loose jello. Andrew and I sampled the "peach" variety, which, let me tell you, tastes about as peachy as, say, peach-scented shampoo might. Andrew said it tasted and felt like a cross between fruity Valvoline and liquid Go-Gurt, which makes sense, because it all comes out of the same evil factory, apparently.

And my hair is still messy and my car is still dirty and I am still harried.

Now, what to do with the "Tropical" flavor still in the fridge?

Posted by volfie at May 4, 2003 10:55 PM