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.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 February 2013 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
v easy to grow iirc
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 February 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 18 February 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
They are in my local grocery store! (run by Peruvians).
― ljubljana, Monday, 18 February 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 18 February 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 February 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
wait is this brand of yogurt supposed to be embarrassing why?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 18 February 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
because it's dumb-sounding
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 February 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
i would think squeeze tube "gogurt" to be the 9/11 of shame.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 18 February 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
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.)
― carl agatha, Monday, 18 February 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Monday, 18 February 2013 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
Chobani yogurt is an Anglicized spelling of the Persian chob-ban, meaning "shepherd" (literally he who carries a stick –-- something that shepherds traditionally do).
― how's life, Monday, 18 February 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
one of the grossest sentences i've heard was from an acquaintance who said "papa needs his chobani"
― crimson hexagon sonned (clouds), Monday, 18 February 2013 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
Humiliating
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 18 February 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
LOL
― carl agatha, Monday, 18 February 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
it sounds like a derivate of choad. 'that dude was a total chobani'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 February 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
Don't really get the chobani embarrassment but I don't eat yogurt
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 18 February 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
papa needs his little stick-carrier.
― how's life, Monday, 18 February 2013 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
It's embarrassing to say (choBAni yoMAma emBARRassed)overly focus-grouped (speakers of many languages will be able to pronounce it!)sounds like choadis a name for yogurt and yogurt isa) hard to eat in a dignified wayb) gross to watch someone else eatc) a bunch of gross white shit with fruit in itd) 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.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 18 February 2013 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
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Why, are you ashamed?
― carl agatha, Monday, 18 February 2013 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
your secret yogurt shame
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 February 2013 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
also i thought this was a thread for irrational embarrassmentyou don't have to get it
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 18 February 2013 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― carl agatha, Monday, 18 February 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
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
― железобетонное очко (mookieproof), Monday, 18 February 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 18 February 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
I avoided sitting with him. Yogurt requires no chewing,Iike baby food.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 18 February 2013 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
is the eating of ice cream easier to witness?
― железобетонное очко (mookieproof), Monday, 18 February 2013 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
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!"
― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Monday, 18 February 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
Moderately, it's less jiggly.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 18 February 2013 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe that's why I'm ashamed of yogurt!! All I remember abt that show is the abundance of plants.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 18 February 2013 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
I remember the many plants too.
Also I just realized, 'Ms. Romano' = a dairy product complaining about another dairy product...
― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Monday, 18 February 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
I mostly remember the high-waisted trousers and enviably winged hair.
― carl agatha, Monday, 18 February 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― just1n3, Monday, 18 February 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
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
― wins rules at negative self-demolition (wins), Monday, 18 February 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― crimson hexagon sonned (clouds), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
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.)
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
Using a cellphone in public.
I know, I know, I should've gotten over this sometime around 1998.
― pplains, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 04:33 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 February 2013 00:25 (eleven years ago) link
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?"
― dog latin, Friday, 22 February 2013 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Spectrum, Friday, 22 February 2013 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
oh, this is the embarrassed thread. posting in one thread thinking it's another, that at least fits here.
― Spectrum, Friday, 22 February 2013 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 February 2013 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 22 February 2013 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
i think they were wondering why i did it
http://kytx.images.worldnow.com/images/15256193_BG1.jpg
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 22 February 2013 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Friday, 22 February 2013 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
No joke TWO ex-coworkers visited our office within half an hour of each other this afternoon.
And they took complete tours of the sales floor, hanging out at people's desks and going into manager's offices and OH MY GOD YOU'VE MOVED EVERYONE AROUND and OH WOW and uhhhhhh just let me die of embarrassment for you both, this is a terrible idea and you should leave
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 February 2013 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
My last job (the terrible one!) is the only one I've ever contemplating visiting and it's just bc I really liked my coworkers. Also there was definitely a culture of people returning after they left. I think working in that environment forged steel bonds of coworkership in the blue-hot fires of WTFery. But so far I've just met up w/ friends from that job outside of work (also the first job I've left where I've stayed habitually in touch w/ former coworkers, unless you count the restaurant where Jesse and I met).
― carl agatha, Friday, 22 February 2013 02:51 (eleven years ago) link