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Wallaby Organic Yogurt — munchies review

by Kris ⋅ June 25, 2007 ⋅ Comment now ⋅ Subscribe RSS

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My last attempt at organic yogurt (Trader Joe’s vegan soy I think?) was my last. Or so I thought. With organic foods on the rise and on the cheap (well, cheapER than they used to be), I found cute little tapered containers of Wallaby Organic Yogurt in the refrigerated alcove of Yahoo!’s Dot’s Cafe. It was so cute with its abstract outline of a hopping marsupial, I thought I’d try it, especially since one of the flavors was “orange passion fruit”. Mmm passion fruit, *droool*. It said “creamy Australian style” (ooh, intriguing) and “1 1/2% milkfat lowfat”, which I mistakenly glanced at and read “11 1/2%” and was like “whoa, what’s constitutes a rich yogurt Down Under?”

Let me tell you something straight up: I don’t like watery yogurt. I don’t like when it’s sort of diluted and I feel like I should be drinking it or it has chunky curdy clumps swimming in its own juice. Yogurt shouldn’t have its own juice. That’s gross. I like it thick and gelatinous; my spoon should stand up in it and I should need a spoon to eat it. It did say it was “creamy style” afterall. If you like thinned yogurt, Wallaby may be your thing, so enjoy.

I also like it fruity, occasionally preferring the “fruit at the bottom” packages that are sometimes more syrup than fruit. I couldn’t tell that there was any fruit in my Wallaby, besides the teeny microscopic orange bits. I grew up on passion fruit and tasted none. Not even the “passion fruit flavor” mainlanders think taste more like canned peaches. No fruit, so sad. In fact, Wallaby Organic Yogurt was pretty unassuming overall, which may make it a nice treat for dieters/health nuts who prefer to pour yogurt over fresh fruit cubes to create a sort of unfinished ambrosia. I am neither dieter nor health nut nor willing to shell out more than $0.50 per cup, so I think I’ll just stick to my cheapo Yoplait and psuedo-healthy flax seed granola nuggets.

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dreamlogic.net -- KRISTINE KOBAYASHI-NELSON

Kris Kobayashi-Nelson is an avid food adventurist who has tried everything from jellyfish to sea cucumber to chicken gizzards. She loved liver and onions with ketchup and cayenne pepper ice cream as a kid.