I have tried pinkberry before and also red mango. My strength is not in being able to taste the flavours of the yogurt and the fruits in combination and express the taste using intricate words, however I do know that they both taste great!

I have always loved eating ice cream and fruits. Never had I put much thought into eating both ice cream and fruits together. I did fall ill with a condition called IBS and since then have not been able to eat ice cream but yogurt however, seems to gel fine with my digestive system. I really do not know why this is. Many of my peers who have IBS also love yogurt and have been able to eat them to their blue in the face without having to run to the washroom.

Know if only I can build a recipe for this so that IBS sufferers alike can go through my IBS-friendly diet recipes and have a dessert menu in which they can create to eat as many of us are unable to through the front door in hopes of not having to run to the washroom before they get to either a pinkberry or a red mango.

You go ahead,

RM

Tartini in Cupertino
Harmony in San Mateo and San Carlos
Tuttimelon in San Mateo (they are opening one in Cupertino next month)

I’ve been meaning to write a comment on this post for *ages*, but on the assumption that it’s better late than never…

I’m an artist who’s really interested in language, and particularly in the way that technology and advertising affect language. The link between Google and yoghurt might not seem obvious to all, but after watching an advert for Dannon’s Activia with “bifidus digestivum” (the UK name for what in the US is called “bifidus regularis”) I Googled the term and all I could find was blogs asking “what on earth is it”? It sounded like pseudo-science to me (I mean, really – “digestivum”?), so I investigated further and found out that Activia is effectively just live yoghurt, like you’ve been able to get in health food stores for decades.

Given the number of blogs that were asking what this substance was, I put together a website (I design and build websites to make a living – art doesn’t pay that well!) specifically tailored to catch Google searches for “bifidus digestivum”, “bifidus regularis” and its other variants: http://bifidobacteriumanimalis.com/ (It was originally called http://www.bifidusdigestivum.com until Danone threatened to sue me – I’m in the process of transferring the domain name to them…)

The idea isn’t primarily that people get good information, although that’s part of it too. It’s that because of the structure of language on the Internet, and the way that search engines work, you can start to undo the use of pseudo-science in advertising that seeks to disguise the fact that, in this example, Activia is just expensive live yoghurt.

I think about this in terms of pseudo-science being a kind of language camouflage that conceals the truth of the core message of the advert – i.e. this yoghurt is digestive science in a pot – and it’s really interesting to me that Google and search engines in general can unmask that core message.

Anyway, if you’ve got time I’d be interested to hear what you think given your more extensive experience with search engines.

Adrian

P.S. I also wrote a blog post about how I think Google is affecting language here, which you might be interested in, or at least find amusingly naive : http://blog.lovehowlmuse.com/2008/07/29/how-google-is-changing-language-and-how-the-telegraph-lost-its-soul/

If you head up north a ways, you might want to check out Yumi Yogurt in San Mateo.

-Todd

As for SF – There’s a place near the Metreon (can’t remember the name) – not quite as good, but they let you have all the toppings you want, and you weigh your yogurt at the end. Very yummy making a yogurt sundae frankenstein mashup.

Oh – and moochi does rule…didn’t know they had that at pinkberry.