Yogurt.

Seriously?  I mean, who knew that what I've been eating at years wasn't real yogurt.  Well, I suppose I was *forcing* myself to eat it.

Today, I experienced what I consider actual yogurt for the first time.  This is what I purchased at the g-store:

Organic Plain Whole Milk, Cream on Top, Yogurt

Besides the unpleasantness of slicing my thumb open on the foil yogurt lid (OUCH!), I was really surprised by this yogurt.  Here's my brief yogurt history.  I never really ate yogurt until late 2005 when I hired a nutritionist and personal trainer to facilitate weight loss.  I was to have a low fat yogurt cup each evening at 8:30pm IF I was still hungry.  I was restricted to a certain brand and line of yogurt.  The consistency always presented the "ick" factor, and even with vigorous stirring it was still kinda, well, lumpy.  Often, I would even hold my nose to get it down, no matter the fruity or pie flavor.  Eww!  Well, today was different.  When I opened the container and smelled the yogurt (yes, I smelled it!), it smelled a little like cream cheese!  This totally intrigued me!!  It didn't taste like cream cheese (darn!), but with a little on top of fresh strawberries, it was pretty good!  Definitely not my typical yogurt experience.  And, today could have been the first time EVER that I was satisfied without sugar on my strawberries.  That's a huge accomplishment!

So...my big question is WHY people don't talk about this?  Why are full fat dairy products so demonized?  This yogurt was definitely superior to any sugar free, low fat, flavored yogurt I've ever tasted.  I hope my local g-store keeps carrying it...