Don't Let the Hat Fool You

My husband and I went to the grocery store. Scott was wandering the market, as he tends to do, while I was actually accomplishing the task of getting the things on our list.

I was in the dairy aisle, considering some Greek yogurt, when something stopped me in my tracks.

Yogurt with toppings.

Not blueberries. Not granola. Not a tasteful little sprinkling of nuts.

M&Ms. Oreos. Candy pieces.

I stood there staring.

Then, naturally, I took a picture.

Because apparently I had stumbled upon garbage yogurt.

I had questions.

Isn’t yogurt supposed to be one of the healthy foods? Something we eat because it is good for us?

Apparently somebody looked at that perfectly respectable container of yogurt and thought, You know what this needs?  M&Ms. 

Suddenly I wasn’t questioning the nutritional integrity of yogurt. I was questioning the nutritional integrity of yogurt wearing an M&M hat.

The package promised the “best of both worlds.”

And maybe that’s where I got hung up. Putting M&Ms on yogurt doesn’t make the M&Ms health food. It just gives them a very comfortable place to sit.

That was 2018.

Naturally, I had to check today.

Surely, eight years later, garbage yogurt had quietly slipped into dairy-aisle history.

Oh, no.

Garbage yogurt has flourished.

Now the line-up includes not just Oreos and M&Ms, but Sprinkles, Cookie Dough, and a plethora of candy options.

Apparently while I was off minding my own business, yogurt stopped pretending altogether and opened a candy store.

I’ve changed a little since 2018 too.

Back then, I thought it was my responsibility to defend the nutritional integrity of yogurt.

These days?

Want the yogurt? Eat the yogurt. Want the M&Ms. Eat the M&Ms. Want to dump the M&Ms into the yogurt? Go for it.

Just know which one you are eating.

No judgment. Just accurate identification.

Somewhere along the way, yogurt put on an M&M hat and went to a party.

And honestly? Good for her.

Just don’t let the hat fool you.