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Skriven 2010-03-01 12:57:00 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Hanschka
Ärende: SOUP'S ON!  00301
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 -=> Quoting Ruth Hanschka to Glen Jamieson <=-

 ->  RH> Beats me.  It's marked Wallaby brand Australian-style yogurt.  It
 ->  RH> comes with fruit flavors in the bottom, to be mixed by the eater

 -> I have never seen anything like that.  I have just been to the local
 -> s/market to see.  There is a huge range of yogurts, with all sorts of
 -> juices, sweeteners and fruit pieces added, and even one which has a
 -> small container of crushed nuts which are supposed to be added before

 RH> I've seen one Swiss brand (Emmi) with nuts, but no others.  
 
 -> eating.  There was even a totally lactose-free version, on which it
 -> was claimed that a special enzyme converted the lactose to simple
 -> sugars.  My usual plain yogurt has nothing added, not even gelatine.
 -> It tastes the same as the home-made yogurt the in-laws made in the
 -> Punjab.

 RH> The good stuff shouldn't have gelatin (no 'e' here in the States), but

(No 'e' here, either, unless I inadvertently add one.)

 RH> the mass-produced ones are often a chemical soup.  Yoplait used to be a
 RH> really good brand, but when they made the American version Nestlé added
 RH> all sorts of garbage right down to the High Fructose Corn Syrup. 
 RH> Uhmmm, no thanks guys.  

Lots of kinds of Yoplait here, but as we have lots of cane sugar we
are spared the HFCS.
 
 -> No "Wallaby" brand, but all Australian made.  Where is your Wallaby
 -> brand made?  (I wouldn't be surprised if the evil Kiwis made it.  I

 RH> I assume it's American, but it's not "my" anything.  I've eaten it a
 RH> few times and it's OK.  They have a mango flavor, which is enough to
 RH> get me to try just about anything.  

The country and owner of factory of manufacture should be printed
somewhere on the container.  I have occasionally added some black
currant juice to my plain yoghurt for my grand-daughter.  That gives a
good flavour without excessive sweetness, and she likes it.

 -> The yogurt with additives and/or sweetener is "girl food" here; not
 -> the "manly" plain, unadulterated version that I eat.  :)

 RH> Women don't change that much no matter where we are I guess, or at
 RH> least marketing types don't.  

The women's magazines glorify the same movie/TV actors and their
preferred diets, as given in the adverts for flavoured yoghurts.
 
 ->   Note: I don't know the US equivalent of long-life milk.
 -> 
 ->   Also known in Australia as UHT milk.

 RH> Shelf stable milk.  The brand I'm used to seeing is Parmalat, but
 RH> there are probably others.  It's not a big seller here.

I normally keep a litre as an emergency milk supply.  "Paul's" is the
local Parmalat brand name.  I think Parmalat is actually Italian in
origin; wasn't it in some sort of financial trouble recently?

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