Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

If there were another way to get passion fruit pulp into my yogurt, I would do it. But aside from making little squeeze tubes from frozen Goya pre-sweetened passion fruit pulp (maracuya) and plastic sandwich bags, I can't see that happening. I don't see fresh passion fruits being sold anywhere.

Also the frozen Goya stuff doesn't have the seeds, and I like the seeds.

Doomed to eating this yogurt and feeling ashamed about it ;_;

my parents used to grow them, ubiquitous in every austrlalian garden. I wonder if they grow here? They must, surely. I never see them grown though, or even really sold anywhere.

v easy to grow iirc

Really!? I guess I've only seen them in the southern hemisphere now that I think about it. I would like to grow some passion fruits.

They are in my local grocery store! (run by Peruvians).

I only see pomegranates, no passion fruits. Maybe I should look around a little more! But therein lies the shame of Chobani -- why look around for anything when the chobani passion fruit is right in front of me.

I bet you could grow it indoors -- they don't mind the cold but I don't think they stand up to frosts/snow very well.

wait is this brand of yogurt supposed to be embarrassing why?

because it's dumb-sounding

i would think squeeze tube "gogurt" to be the 9/11 of shame.

It's probably way too cold (or warm for too short a time) to grow passion fruit in Chicago. It's basically frost or snow between late November and, oh, April. (Which is why "localvore" never made any sense to me in Chicago, but that's for another thread.)

I got a couple of fresh passionfruit on my last trip to Atlanta -- the most amazing flavor ever. I need to find that yogurt or the frozen Goya pulp and get some of that embarrassment.

Chobani yogurt is an Anglicized spelling of the Persian chob-ban, meaning "shepherd" (literally he who carries a stick –-- something that shepherds traditionally do).

one of the grossest sentences i've heard was from an acquaintance who said "papa needs his chobani"

Humiliating

LOL

it sounds like a derivate of choad. 'that dude was a total chobani'

Don't really get the chobani embarrassment but I don't eat yogurt

papa needs his little stick-carrier.

It's embarrassing to say (choBAni yoMAma emBARRassed)
overly focus-grouped (speakers of many languages will be able to pronounce it!)
sounds like choad
is a name for yogurt and yogurt is
a) hard to eat in a dignified way
b) gross to watch someone else eat
c) a bunch of gross white shit with fruit in it
d) called "yogurt"

I could go on, but why. Clearly I have made my case. The fact that I have all of these feelings about yogurt yet continue to eat it is a sign of my willingness - even eagerness! - to humiliate myself.

Don't really get the chobani embarrassment but I don't eat yogurt

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Why, are you ashamed?

your secret yogurt shame

also i thought this was a thread for irrational embarrassment
you don't have to get it

I think yogurt has been cast as ladyfood or diet food or food for people with IBS, so there's definitely a gendered/medicalized/both aura about it, too. Also those horrendous commercials with bridesmaids eating yogurt and talking about how good it is compared to various tedious events in their lives.

i sometimes eat dannon fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt and am unembarrassed

i believe this is the only milieu in which i have encountered the boysenberry

it's like the cheesy poofs of yogurt

I've disliked watching ppl eat yogurt since childhood. It peaked in the college cafeteria when I saw a friend eating a giant jiggly bowl of blueberry yog.

I avoided sitting with him. Yogurt requires no chewing,Iike baby food.

is the eating of ice cream easier to witness?

One of my most-remembered bits from One Day at a Time is Ms. Romano complaining about yogurt and how even saying it is unappealing. "Yo-GURT... yo-GURT!"

Moderately, it's less jiggly.

Maybe that's why I'm ashamed of yogurt!! All I remember abt that show is the abundance of plants.

I remember the many plants too.

Also I just realized, 'Ms. Romano' = a dairy product complaining about another dairy product...

I mostly remember the high-waisted trousers and enviably winged hair.

And the damn theme song, the words to which are taking up valuable space in my brain where Jeff's social security number and work phone should go.

My supermarket sells passion fruit, but they're like $3 EACH and not ripe at all. There's a farmers market close to work that has been known to sell nice ripe ones for much cheaper. I looked into growing them myself, but it sounded kind of tricky and the plants take a couple of years to bear fruit.

Next time I see them I'll send some to you, LL - pf is probably my favorite fruit.

Also I just realized, 'Ms. Romano' = a dairy product complaining about another dairy product...

is this why la lechera is complaining too?

anyway: people who can't control the volume of their voice. I'm sure I do this sometimes & I get embarrassed if I noticed but when other people do it & don't notice I'm kinda mortified although there's no reason i should even care

people yelling in public/talking loud enough that other can hear from a distance freak me out, i have a pavolovian reaction to it that sends a chill up my spine. i was so glad to move out of my old neighborhood cuz yelling down streets is basically how everyone there communicates.

as someone who often finds himself continuing phone conversations in my building's elevator and politely lowering my volume so as to not bother anyone else, I'm annoyed and embarrassed for people who don't do the same (it'd be a cliche to think they're doing it because they're trying to impress others around them, but it sometimes seems that way...but then again that might just be bc I live in L.A.)

is this why la lechera is complaining too?
yes, i am a dairy product! a sweet delicious dairy product. i just thank the heavens every single day that i am not yogurt.

Using a cellphone in public.

I know, I know, I should've gotten over this sometime around 1998.

ex-coworkers who come back to the office to visit

even if they're friends, or people I like, it's just so awkward and strange and I honestly don't know how they could even walk in the front door without dying of embarrassment. I can't even fathom doing such a thing. It's so... sad.

yup... it's weird for everyone involved. half the people don't know the person, the other half kind of do this weird fawning thing, and the person in question's all "so you're still all working and stuff huh?"

we have a quasi old coworker back ... he left when the company moved about 6 months ago. he never found a new job since he still lives with his parents, so he's working here for a month on some random project. i wouldn't care so much if he wasn't kinda weird with me, trying to posture and shit when i'm around, and then getting nervous when i'm just looking at him while he's talking. what is up with that? another innocuous thing that makes you irrationally angry.

oh, this is the embarrassed thread. posting in one thread thinking it's another, that at least fits here.

one guy I used to work with has come by 3 times since he was let go, ostensibly to give someone in the office something or other, but each time he ends up standing at my cubicle and we make smalltalk and I'm like...dude...why are you here

haha...i've done this, but then again i was really going in to visit my old boss so it wasn't the same as a total random walk-in. but everyone did seem flummoxed.

i think they were wondering why i did it

http://kytx.images.worldnow.com/images/15256193_BG1.jpg

It actually used to piss me off a little bit at my old job, especially there toward the end when I was really, really looking for a way out.

"Hey, it's Baker! Still in this same old studio? Wow, I think that cart deck was still there even when I was here. Daniel B. still come around?"

I'm all shut the fuck up -your history is my present - I'm not your nostalgia - yeah daniel b still comes around.