Oh well yeah, then for a $2 difference I'd buy Oikos and just make the occasional splurge for Fage. My Whole Foods carries Fage for $2.25, but I can find them at Fiesta for $1.80 (don't know how widespread Fiestas are - probably not very. It's a relatively large specialty Hispanic foods store in Houston.)
I worked my way through college as a server at a casual dining steakhouse chain. I saw some pretty outrageous stuff...here are two of the most notable.
1. A couple who brought their toddler's porta-potty in and set it down next to the table for him to use because "he wouldn't be able to make it all the way to the back where the restroom is." Needless to say we did not allow this.
2. I walked up to a table mid-way through their meal to check in. As I walked up, the mom held out a wad of damp napkins, which I took, figuring their 3-ish year old daughter had spilled her juice or something. Big mistake - the daughter had puked in the booth and they used to napkins to wipe it up and just handed them to me without any warning. Disgusting.
I have to disagree. I'm normally all for the cheaper / generic variety of things, but oikos for me does not make the cut. Not as thick or creamy, plus it has 110 calories vs. Fage's 80 cals for the same size cup.
Love it. dab of mayonnaise, salt, pepper, garlic, and I like to toss in some fresh cilantro leaves. yum.
we always dip our artichoke in mayonnaise (not much, just a little). I guess that's a little like the aioli, although admittedly it sounds a whole lot more gross. Sure is yummy though...and easy.
Oh, I forgot to go into another rude diner, since I was so caught up on my grandmother.
I worked as a banquet server while at college, and I had this one table at a wedding and a "gentleman" asked if I could take his meal to the bar because he wanted to watch a basketball game that was going on. He was invited to someone's wedding, of which his meal had been paid for by the bride, and he wanted to go eat and watch the game. Even though it is against my principal to say no to a guest, I broke that and said that I would deliver his meal to him at the table, and he could do what he wanted after that.
Also, I was waiting on the head table at a bar mitzfah (27 - 13 year old boys and girls) who were just making a complete mess of their table (bending forks and spoons and placing them in the fire to burn, piling all their leftovers on plates and creating a food atrocity.) It is amazing what parents will let their kids get away with.
Ah! Every family gathering we have, when it involves my grandmother, always turns into a disaster. At the last one I attended, thank God I live out of state, my grandmother proceeded to tell all of her grandchildren that we are all narcissists, called my brother an asshole. Made jokes about very inappropriate sexual things, and belched all night. She does that in restaurants, too. I refuse to go out to eat with her anymore.
I suppose she was on relatively good behavior at my wedding, but then again, I was preoccupied most of the night. I remember her saying my mom was fat, but I didn't want to get into it with her. She is just plain rude.
capricornpig...Not only is it inappropriate to change your child's diaper in the dining room (I don't care if it's White Castle - you don't do it) - it's even more inappropriate to leave a dirty diaper on the table when your party leaves.
One of the worst things I've ever seen in a restaurant was watching my server put on her makeup at a table across the room.
*prays she never sees this* My fmil (you figure it out!) has super long fingernails... I don't know and don't care if they're fake... I threw a party once and had this huge spread of food, crackers, dips, cheeses, among other things, and she began dipping into the cheese and dips and... well... I'm about to yak just thinking about it... her nails were getting covered, instead of wiping them off, she'd... you know.. and then dip again. She also double dips anyway. One of the party guests pulled me aside and I was just like, I can't say anything...
Another time, I was having dinner at her house with her husband and son, and she came home midway through dinner, so we offered her some steak (which was sitting on the cutting board; it was a big one we'd sliced up to share, sitting in a pool of juices). She said no thanks, then proceeded to stand in the kitchen near the table, eating steak with her fingers (again, those damn fingernails!), dipping the slices into the juices as she ate, double dipping, and then fed the dogs with her fingers some of the steak! I think my horror showed on my face, her husband and son both said "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? We're not done eating, don't give that to the dogs, and get a plate, don't eat like that, you're not a dog!" etc.
Suffice it to say I try to not eat with her as much as humanly possible, or I just don't look at her when we do have to share a meal. *shudder*
My bf and I went out for dim sum in Brooklyn Chinatown a couple months ago. It was a little late for dim sum (around 3pm) so the restuarant wasn't quite full, but not dead either. We were seated at a table in the corner, and proceeded to order goodies from the carts. As I took my first bite, I noticed the elderly grandma at the table in front of us staring at my bf as if she was staring at the "white devil" himself (I'm Chinese, he's white). That was funny, until 2 minutes later, we noticed grandma helping her daughter change a baby's diaper! Right in front of us as! I looked at my bf, and with a horrified look on his face, he said "if I get even a whif of ..." (thankfully it was only a pee diaper). People, diaper changes in the dining room, no matter what's in them, is completely inappropriate and GROSS.
I like Oikos vanilla it is great.I am also a fan on trader joes honey greek yogurtThe fage flavor I like is the cherry it is so yummy....
I like Fage but find it very overpriced for a rather small cup -- Oikos is good, but lately I've switched to Chobani Greek yogurt--available at Whole Foods and other stores in northern New Jersey -- it comes in flavors, but I always get the Vanilla and add trail mix, gogi berries, etc. to it -- delicious -- and the price is less than Fage,
Trader Joe's makes a nice greek yogurt that's much cheaper and suffices (for me) instead of Fage. You just have to stir it up a bit to get it to the right consistency.
I've been making my own yogurt, using Fage as the initial culture, and when my culture starts to get worn out, I buy another little Fage. I have the Donvier yogurt maker, as well as the Donvier yogurt strainer to strain off the excess liquid, and the resulting strained yogurt tastes just like Fage, for about 1/3 the price.
OMG chiff! That's nasty! You could have said "Oh are you med students? If I describe my symptoms could you help me figure out what I have? I've had this discharge and it burns when I pee...." They might have changed tables!
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