Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Foods Gross Yogurt Flavor Pile-On Keeps Parents At Arm's Length
Posted by Nicki Wood on Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:15 PM
Sweet Cece's, the cleverly positioned yogurtorium next to Publix on Harding Road (below several busy pediatricians' offices) has hit on a way to prevent parents from sampling their kids' treats: the Bleh Factor.
As the payor of first resort, Mom will certainly demand a big bite or two of little Hunter's chocolate frozen yogurt with caramel sauce and chocolate cookie dough. But if Ellie is smart and gets a swirled-up concoction of blueberry and the soon-expected root beer yogurt, then tops it with Golden Grahams and Sno-caps, mom and dad are sure to stay away.
"Bleh. How can you eat that?" we say to our kids. "I can eat it because I'm not busy trying to keep it away from your spoon," they answer.
Maybe you tried this yourself as a kid -- remember making Suicide at the soft drink fountain? Or maybe, like me, you bought toffee on purpose because the adults' dental work couldn't tolerate it. What was your technique from keeping grown-ups out of your treat?
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Root beer yogurt? Can I get some sort of iPhone app to notify me when this becomes available?
I just never brought treats home as a child. Considering I grew up with two older brothers on a regular menu of Krystal 10-baggers and Pizza Combos, I knew better than to bring anything tasty into the house.
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Fox boys like gummy bears and anything colored with indelible dye—blue cotton candy ice cream, red velvet ice cream, yellow ice cream (didn't I warn you about yellow ice cream, guys?). Cold gummy bears suck.
I don't remember my parents snitching bites of my treats, but boy does my kiddo try to now! Once I told her a chocolate dipped cone was a coffee flavored dipped cone, and she wanted none of it! But you have to be creative because kids are usually game for weird food.
My sister always did the gummy bear thing. It was a cup of TCBY fro-yo with gummy bears on top. I thought it was gross even when I was 10.
CarrieAnne's hit on a good blog post: how to keep kids from adult food. Coffee-flavored is no deterrent to my young 'un. But cold gummybears, or any soft candy, that's true yuck right there. Plus, the mark-up! If your kids want gummybears, you can buy 'em a whammo-load of them for a fraction of what they cost in those bins.
I took my 6yo nephew back in July. It was a hilarious experience for two reasons. First, when he was sampling the flavors, he tried the "original" and immediately said "OH THAT'S NASTY! THAT'S GROSS! WHO WOULD LIKE THAT?" Then he glanced up at the girl worker who gave him the sample and said "Oh, I'm sorry if that's your favorite flavor, I'm sorry I said it was nasty. I mean, it was good."
Then he chose an orange (sherbert maybe?) flavor and he put on it:
sour gummy worms
regular gummy worms
chocolate sprinkles
rainbow sprinkles
marshmallows
oreos
m&ms
and maybe more, but I can't remember.
