The Breakfast of Rambly Bits

[gnomi]

Some random stuff running around my brain:

-- OK, so why do most yogurt companies insist on putting all the lovely fruit on the bottom? If one doesn't stir sufficiently, one ends up with lots of plain yogurt at the outset and then a lot of concentrated fruit at the end. Breakfast foods shouldn't be complicated, right? Unless, say, you've got time for complex breakfasts.

-- Hey, cicirossi, thanks so much for the postcard. It was a lovely surprise yesterday! And if I had your address, I'd send you back one - I have one all picked out, too.

-- Another oddness from the Nomi brain: Forget US Robots and Mechanical Men; in the future, household robots will come from Apple Computer. Under the name iRobot. :-)

-- MAB and I saw "De-Lovely" on Sunday. As a consequence, I've been humming/singing Cole Porter songs since Sunday night. It's a good movie, starring Kevin Kline as Cole Porter and Ashley Judd as Linda, and it includes lots of guest appearances by various singers performing the Porter songs.

-- Free the Peeves! (as seen in yesterday's Boston Globe).

Comments

[42itous.livejournal.com]

I know, I HATE that about yogurt. But I discovered that Shaw's (Star Market) store brand yogurt is pre-mixed, so the fruit flavor is constant throughout.

[lisafeld.livejournal.com]

Hey, I freaking love the fruit on the bottom! It's food and a trippy, swirly hobby kit all in one. :)

[half-double.livejournal.com]

I've not seen De-Lovely yet, so I'm not actually passing judgement, but the best review I've seen of it so far said, "Like a Mexican restaurant in Minnesota, De-Lovely is a bold idea timidly executed." I laughed myself silly. Uh...sillier.

[angwantibo.livejournal.com]

I think the main reason is that the fruit is heavier than the yoghurt, so it happens anyway. If you add enough "kosher gelatin", like some brands do, it can be made pre-mixed.

This starts a whole new conversation. Why do we say "pre-mixed"? It's either mixed or it isn't.

Just go for the lemon yoghurt. It doesn't have fruit-at-the-bottom.

[ckd]

But with fruit already mixed in, how will kids learn to dig down through the yogurt layer to cause the fruit to "well up" like swamp water in a sinkhole?

Not that I would ever have done such a thing, of course.

[cellio]

Yogurt producers are presumably trying to keep costs down (mixing is an extra step), and know that it won't stay mixed anyway so consumers would still have to stir it up some. It's probably better to make that obvious from the start, rather than delivering something that looks like it's mixed (but sparse on the fruit) until you get to the bottom.

But if stirring yogurt is your idea of a complex breakfast, there may be another issue here. :-)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

But if stirring yogurt is your idea of a complex breakfast, there may be another issue here. :-)

I eat the yogurt part of my breakfast at about 7:40 AM, when I'm already in my cubicle and haven't yet drunk my coffee. So, yeah - at that time of morning, almost anything is complex.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I kind of like my peeves...