Live: The Great Yogurt Feud
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Live: The Great Yogurt Feud

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 21, 202640 min
  • Food

If someone asked you to name the country that dominates American yogurt aisles, you would undoubtedly say Greece. Thick Greek yogurt makes up more than half of all US yogurt sales. But shaking its fist from the shadows is another country that’s even more obsessed with yogurt: Bulgaria. They have a museum of yogurt. One key bacteria found in all yogurt in the world was discovered in Bulgaria. And yet, the Greeks get all the attention. In this special live show performed at Little Island in New York, Dan and reporter Eliza Rothstein explain how Bulgaria lost out to...

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serious XM podcasts today we're bringing you a special live episode we recorded recently at Little Island a small park on a pier in New

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York we did a run of three shows there was really fun so many of you showed up to sit in the grass and watch we had yogurt samples live singers and

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gorgeous weather with a view of the Manhattan skyline all this to say you You should come see us when we do live shows. It's a good time.

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