Product Placement: Nancy’s Plain Yogurt
Oh, Portopia. Oh, Nancy’s.
Back when I lived in Portland, Oregon, when I would come back home to visit the East coast, I’d rave about Portland all the time. (’In Portland, the farmer’s market is so great…Portland has SUCH good public transportation…this bookstore just PALES in comparison with Powell’s.’) It was sort of annoying, even to me, even as the words were coming out of my mouth. I started to suspect that I was the kind of person who’d just irritatingly brag about any place she happened to be living.
Now I’m older and wiser and I know that I’m not. Rather the opposite: lately, I haven’t found very many nice things to say about New York. And the other day, when I stumbled across this stunning panoramic photo of the Portland skyline, it made me almost sick with nostalgia.
Well, nothing I can do about that today except give a shout out to one tiny thing I miss about Portland, which is Nancy’s yogurt. It was a staple for me when I lived there, and like every other good Portland college student of slender means, my kitchen cabinets were full of repurposed Nancy’s containers full of rice, beans, and brown sugar.
You didn’t used to be able to get Nancy’s east of the ole’ Missisip, but I guess they just started distributing out here. I bought a tub at Fairway earlier this month, and tasting confirmed that my Nancy’s-love was not a product of mere idyllic hindsight. Nancy’s handily kicked the ass of the Stonyfield organic lowfat plain that has just been deposed as my go-to yogurt. (In particluar, I noticed that the Stonyfield is comparatively sweet, in a way that now seems cloying.)
Nancy’s website says I can buy it at The Garden in Greenpoint. Which I guess means that I do have at least one thing to say, right now, in New York’s favor.
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