One of my few really healthy habits is my yogurt addiction - at home I ate a TON of yogurt. Chinese yogurt is definitely different - it’s much thinner and a little more sour. It tastes fine to me, but I wanted to be sure that I was eating the right kind of yogurt, with all the healthy live cultures that are so good for female health. I had no way of checking the packaging for that information, but I finally found a brand that subtly indicates that it’s good for feminine health:
Another surprising little burst of good habit encouragement came with a 20L bottle of coke that had a free toothbrush attached to it.
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That yogurt looks to be Dannon Activia; Consumer Reports talks about it here: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/food/food-shopping/dairy/dannon-activia/dannon-activia-8-06/overview/0608_dannon-activia_ov.htm
Dannon Activia: It’s for your crotch!
Ok, that makes more sense now. I thought it was a Chinese brand, which was weird, because this isn’t exactly the most open culture when it comes to honest discussions of lady crotches. And does anyone else have to repress a snicker when they see that the name of the bacteria responsible for digestive health is bifidus regularis?
Not that it matters, because it looks like Dannon’s full of crap (ha!) anyway: http://www.flex-news-food.com/pages/13752/Danone/usa_dannon_sued_probiotic_bacteria_claim
According to the Consumer Reports bit, Dannon actually trademarked “bifidus regularis,” which leads me to believe they named it as well.
Sort of like in the old Road Runner cartoons, when they’d give fake Latin names to the Road Runner and Wily Coyote.
I have actually seen a commercial for Activia. It’s not necessarily a girly parts yogurt, but for people who eat a bunch of food and then feel bad (like Thanksgiving). It is a cure for the effects of gorging yourself or eating foods you know make you feel bad. I think it’s irresponsible, or at least seemed that way from the way the commercial framed its purpose. Makes me think of vomitoriums.
Dang it! I was so happy when I saw that stuff, too. I guess I’ll see if I can memorize the Chinese characters for acidophilus.
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