Remember yoghurt in the old days?

It was a Ski yoghurt at the Horse of the Year show .
I can't remember the flavour .
I didn't like the first taste .
Later , I really loved hazelnut yoghurts .
I'd eat one or two a day .
No one else liked them so they'd stay in the fridge .

These days , I buy plain yoghurt and add vanilla or fruit to it as I find the commercial ones far too sweet .

I remember my Gran eating natural yoghurt (early 60s) which I thought tasted awful, though I loved the Ski Bilberry yoghurt in the churn shaped tubs. In the 80s, my DDs loved the Mr Men yogurts, especially the chocolate flavour. I am still recycling the pots all these years later for potting seedlings!

I went to a private girls school until I was 11 where most of the other girls came from quite well to do and interesting families (like TV producers for example). One of the girls at our dinner table used to eat a yoghurt every day. I had heard of them but my working class parents were very disparaging with "who'd want to eat gone of milk" sort of comments so we didn't have them at home.

One day the girl in question brought in a Ski lemon yoghurt for me to try and there was no going back! I absolutely loved it.

On on aside note I can see that girl with her blonde bubble curls now. Hard to imagine she's nearly 70.

The first time I tried Yoghurt, probably in the 60's, I nicknamed it "devil's food". I have tried it a few times since but still find it utterly revolting although I love milk and cheese.

In the 1960s my mother was the 'Eden Vale yoghurt girl', and demonstrated recipes using yoghurt in a live TV program every Sunday! Mark

I've bought a big pot of yoghurt on the strength of this thread.
I'm sure I don't like it, but it sounded so tasty.

I was born 1961, so I guess I was about 4/5 yrs old when my parents got their first fridge with a small ice box at the top. My mum bought ‘Ski’ yogurts & thought they were to be kept in the ice box! Hence when eating one was like hard ice cream, but it was nice. Anyone else remember ski yogurts?

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What happened to Ski yoghurts! I don’t even look at the yoghurts now. They’re all puddings.

I thought it was just me being blind! They've just disappeared.

Yes I remember my first yoghurt, it was a ski yoghurt and it had a really tart taste. You could tell it was yoghurt and it tasted a bit exotic then.
But now most of them are full of sugar and way too sweet, even the ones with artificial sweeteners.

Who's bought all the Longley Farm hazelnut yoghurts? None left in my nearest Morrison's today, first time ever that the shelf has been empty of that flavour.

Wonder if it is this thread on GN that has caused a shortage

In 1963-64, one of the more up-market grocers in the city where I worked started to stock fruit yoghurts and I would buy one on my way to work to have with my lunch. Nowadays, I buy the unsweetened Greek-style yoghurt or make it with my Easy-yo kit. I sometimes add a drizzle of honey and have it for breakfast with cereal and banana.

My first taste of yogurt was 1969 when I went to live in London and I liked it. Yeo Valley Natural Yogurt 1kg for £3 in Sainsburys. You can add anything you like to it. I like it with tinned prunes or apricots which I heat in the microwave for 40seconds before adding the yogurt. I also give a little to my dog every day, he loves it. He would probably eat the prunes too if given half the chance. I don’t like sweet yogurt.

I make my own, about a litre, using long-life milk and a small carton of plain live yogurt, in a commercial yogurt maker.

In France I think yoghurt is one of the first things given to babies when they are being weaned.

No idea of make, but back in the mid 1950's working as an apprentice hairdresser in East London, and always on diet. Yoghurts were always a part of those diets. I hated them, but as a teenager somehow equated with their sour taste as being good for me and a help in losing weight!! Do not think back then any of them were are than sour plain.

I love plain yoghurt now, with banana or on baked apple or just by itself.

I always buy the Greek Style yogurt, not sweet at all but thick and creamy.

I used to play out with the little girl down the road, and she had a baby brother.
My first memories of yoghurt are sour tasting stuff, mingled in with the smell of her brother's dirty nappy.

I used to really like the ski hazlenut yoghurts when I was older, though.

JuliaM, that made me laugh.

Unlike that monkey, a squirrel in our garden was very partial - a dd once left a part-eaten pot outside - probably a fruity one - Cyril Squirrel promptly nicked it, took it up a tree, and finished it off!

I remember it in London. It came in little glass bottles and it was pink. No sweetener,just a sour milk taste. They have a fig yoghurt here I like but usually I get a plain Greek yoghurt, great for curries and making pizza bases. There are so many different varieties , whole shelves of it, so it obviously pays well.

I first heard of yoghurt in about 1961/2 when our school had an exchange trip to France and one friend told us she had been given it by the family she was staying with. In the 70’s, with young families, lots of us made our own using thermos flasks, or more successfully, with proper yoghurt makers. Like many have already said, Greek style yoghurt is great. I always have it in the fridge and put fresh fruit with it.

My mum bought Ski yoghurt in the early seventies my sisters and brothers hated I loved it because it was sour. It’s not now it’s bland rhubarb and gooseberry are my two favourites. They are Either Longley or Llaeth Y Llan brand. I also like Fage Greek yoghurt with a Greek pine nut honey I buy online drizzled over it.

Should add that my yogurt maker is on at the moment! And yes, I think Longley Farm yogurts still as sharp as they used to be. I buy (and eat) as many as I can when I am in Northumberland.

We made yogurt in the airing cupboard, kefir in the kitchen and filbunke on the window ledge in the sitting room.
So yes, like Grammaretto we were obviously "arty" too.
Now we buy yogurt but still make kefir every day and still occasionally make filbunke.

I don't remember the first time I tried it, but it wasn't while I lived at home. So it must have been in the early 80's when I was in my 20's.

You can still buy yoghurt makers. I buy greek-style vanilla flavour which is nice.

I loved Ski hazelnut yogurt too.