Chicagoist: A New Kind of Crackberry Coming to Town

guest

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:20:34 -0600

i currently live in LA (fortunately, hail christ, I'm moving back home to Chicago in October)and Pinkberries are sprouting up at an early-2000's Starbucks pace. They are everywhere. Not good. Sour milk tasting, overpriced shit. Toppings are semi, and overall, your better off getting a pint of baskin robbins choc. peanutbutter. go bears.

guest

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:16:23 -0600

I think what's being glossed over here is that Starfruit will be selling frozen kefir -- an interesting and supposedly more healthy version of "fro-yo", so I think it could certainly hold its own in hipster central.

guest

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:10:48 -0600

holy shit! coming back to chicago after college in la, this will satisfy many withdrawals. i love pinkberry and could care less if it's a chain.

guest

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:50:54 -0600

Lifeway's Kiefer is a great HEALTHY local product. For that reason alone, I'll support them over some crappy LA/NY overhyped garbage.

michael

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:34:08 -0600

as a chicagoan for all of my 24 years, who is now moving to LA, i can say it'd be hard to worry about a rat infestation in a pinkberry and it being a deterrent. there are hundreds of these places in LA. everywhere you turn a pinkberry or knock-off version of it. such as "yogurtberry" and the like. pinkberry is pretty good. i found it's wannabe, who is only one store and not a chain, much better. that store is called Cantaloop. If only THAT became a national chain. check it out at hollywood & la brea.

Laura Oppenheimer

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:53:22 -0600

I don't think so. Nothing comes up when I google news search it. Did it happen a while ago? See here.

guest

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:46:15 -0600

didn't pinkberry, ny just have a rodent infestation, similar to the rat-circus incident at the KFC, in the same said city?

matty

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:39:14 -0600

had it in new york. it's pretty good. who is doing their real estate?

JoeM500

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:36:20 -0600

lol at kookybites... I'm there with you... (or maybe just in the stall next to you)

kookybites

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:09:31 -0600

That picture makes me crave frozen yogurt. I'm lactose intolerant, but I still have a masochistic side loves to eat ice cream. I pay for it a couple hours later, but man, it's worth it sometimes.

Bill V

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:07:15 -0600

Check out Scooters on Belmont, they have frozen custard, fresh batches everyday and the flavors change daily too. Pretty good stuff, and it's not a chain.

Kevin Robinson

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:01:26 -0600

Seems to me that there are lots of businesses that aren't supported in that neighborhood. Boutiques seem to dissappear almost as soon as they open up on Milwaukee. Just my two cents. In the mean time, I'll be drinking my blueberry Kefir straight from the bottle on my way home from Jewel!

Laura Oppenheimer

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:50:24 -0600

I like kefir too... but I'm not sure it has the following to support an entire store. It will be interesting to see if the neighborhood that can support a shop that tells you how to coordinate wine with flowers (A-Vision) can also sell people on drinking their yogurt.

Kevin Robinson

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:40:51 -0600

I love Lifeway's Kiefer...

Shannon

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:37:32 -0600

kristina, tell me more...

KristinaXI

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:13:05 -0600

Whatever to all that since the crack that is Love's Chicago Peanut butter fat free has been taking care of my frozen yogurt needs for years now.

Shannon

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:10:15 -0600

salty yogurt? eww. that seinfeld episode irks me, in that they could have just sold the good yogurt and dropped the non-fat advertising, instead of selling the crappy non-fat yogurt. but lord knows that wouldn't be funny. for my money, yocream frozen yogurt is bliss. in fact, i think i'll get some right now...

guest

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:04:29 -0600

This stuff tastes like sourcream. It's awful.

guest

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:56:45 -0600

God, if you call it "fro-yo" anywhere within arm's reach of me, I'm going to punch you. Of all the stupid ...

guest

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:45:42 -0600

i experienced exactly what i read in an LA times review--you take a bite and think "huh--that's not bad, i guess"...and then you take another. then, suddenly, you've eaten the entire thing. and then, about three hours later, you find yourself thinking that another helping would be great. so yeah, it is appealing...yogurt-derived powder or no.