You can’t keep stuff like this inside, or eventually it will make your head explode and who is going to clean that up?
Dear Yoplait:
Whilst out shopping the other day, I needed a snack. Since it was a somewhat stressful day, I was feeling the need to self-medicate with a little chocolate. At the same time, I am working on losing a bit of weight, so I was looking for that perfect mix of chocolate and not flinging myself headlong into a vat of something with a lot of calories. That is when I saw this, on the shelf in the dairy section:
Fat Free Boston Cream Pie Yogurt! I love yogurt! I love Boston Cream Pie! This will be perfect! I realize this is not a particularly great photo, but you can clearly see the picture on the container right? It is a picture of an actual Boston Cream Pie, right? And just in case, you are not familiar with BCP – here is a pic of one I grabbed from Google. I don’t have time to make a BCP and take a photo of it myself so this one is from the internet:
You’ve got your cake part, and you’ve got your custard part and you’ve got your………CHOCOLATE part. BCP is always, always made up of these 3 parts. They are like the trinity of BCP and never shall one be separated from the others. I have been to Boston several times, so I know these things.
You can, I am certain, imagine my dismay upon retiring to my van and opening my yogurt container, to find there is NO f-r-e-a-k-i-ng chocolate in there at all!
I am sure this is some kind of oversight on the part of some foolish underling and as soon as you read about it here on my blog, you will fall all over yourselves getting some chocolate in there. Otherwise you need to change the name to something like “pretty good tasting custardy type stuff that could be the filling for BCP”. Because you are very likely dealing with women a lot of the time, and you should know how we are about chocolate. If there is a picture of chocolate on the outside of the container, there had better be some chocolate inside the container!
For the sake of all involved, it was an incredible stroke of luck that I must have brushed my cart up against a shelf or something, because a package of these was somehow mixed in with my other purchases: 
They are the perfect shape to scoop up fat free yogurt and stood in quite nicely for the missing chocolate. Next time you may not be so lucky and I urge you to take steps to correct this problem sooner rather than later.
Yours Truly, dlyn
Dear Major Shipping Company with Yellow and Red Trucks:
For the I-don’t-know-how-many-eth time, you have once again managed to deliver my package to the wrong address. I know that the address where you delivered my package does have the same digits as my address, but I would like to call your attention to the fact that they are not in the same order as the digits in my house number, which makes it a different number, and thus a different address entirely. Which means I don’t live there. Which means my packages should not be delivered there.
I must give you credit for at least actually finding my road this time, beating your old record by close to a mile. You are making progress of a sort, indicating that you are working, at least in part, toward actually getting my packages to me, instead of to assorted other people who happen to live within [literally] a country mile of me. I would like to take this opportunity to point out that your competitors in the big brown trucks, as well as the guys in the white and red trucks regularly find my house with virtually no problem. Maybe next time, you could get one of them to show you where I live.
Sincerely, dlyn
Being a life long resident of the greater Boston area (In fact for about 3 years I worked across the street of the birth place of the BCP)I will gladly vouch for you in your assertion that BCP does indeed require the inclusion of chocolate in the recipe!
Have you cleaned out that spare room yet???
YR
pg – thanks – I need all the vouching I can get!
Now YR, that was just plain mean, girl!
You know those ghirardelli choclates are like jumpin choyas! I’ve had those mysteriously end up in my cart too. I’m so glad you had some to avert any disaster. I could some to drown my sorrows over the Pats this morning.(sigh)
Oh my word. I never thought to use chocolate as a spoon. You. Are. A. GENIUS. And I rather like those yogurts. Wasn’t there, once upon a time, a yogurt that has the chocolate side by side with the yogurt? Those were good. :)
You crack me up!
Ha! Ya know, dlyn, you need to get the Yoplait Whips that are chocolate. Oh my…the chocolate raspberry is to die for!
personally, i like the key lime pie yoplait whips. it’s yummy! but, whenever i buy it…somehow it disappears and sadly, i never get to eat it! note to self…ban children from fridge!
i love boston creme pie! i’m not a huge chocolate fan but…it’s all good when it’s mixed with the creme filling and the cake!!! mouth watering…must find food!!
Chocolate as a spoon… hmm. Do you think the work of using the chocolate as the spoon cancels out the calories in the chocolate? I may be on to something.
I love the look on my boyfriends face when we get to the check-out and he is grabbing previously-unseen purchases (such as, but not limited to, hersheys bars, oreos, soft batch cookies..) out. hee hee. I can’t help it they are magnetically drawn to the cart!!
Your “Dear Sir” letters remind me a little of your Grandfather …. ; ) I’ve sometimes wondered who got those complaint letter writing genes …. now I know …. though you write with much more humor and irony than I imagine TJ did. Thanks for making me smile during my lunch break.
CM
PS – (please don’t feel the need to respond by telling me who in the family I remind you of.)
I love those little Ghirardelli chocolates! Good idea using it as a spoon.
As for your shipping woes, I feel your pain. Our own letter carrier, the one who delivers every day to our street, always gets the mail mixed up. So frustrating!
I just loved your letters—I haven’t tried that yogurt yet. It was on my list but thanks to your review aka letter now it’s not. I agree if it’s in the pic it should be in the yogurt!
Thanks for your comment on my blog! Will be visiting yours again! See you at PW’s!!
Chocolate can fix just about any food. Well done.
Chocolate can fix just about any food. Well done.
Since you are far more eloquent at this venting thing, could you please write Snackwells also and ask them where the heck the chocolate yogurts went?!
OOOHHH, sounds yummy! And yes, I agree…you MUST try the Whips!
Sorry about your shipping issues…it really is frustrating, isn’t it?
I used to love those yogurts, but then pregnancy happened (it’s been 3 years, but nevertheless) and my tastes changed. The only yogurt I really like is vanilla now.
ANYWAY, they ought to call it Boston Creme and forget the pie part! And back when I loved the Key Lime, I kept secretly hoping for the graham cracker crust at the bottom. Had I been smart, I’d have use the grahams for a spoon!
LOL
As soon as I saw the picture of the yogurt I could taste their version of chocolate creme pie. Yes, I too made the mistake of expecting chocolate – once. Now I just stick to strawberry and throw in some chocolate chips.
Yumm.
LOL, I love it!
You made my day with your letters!
Not being a yogurt fan, I can’t totally feel your pain, but because you’re my friend, you have my deepest sympathy in the loss of your BCP’s chocolate.
Those red and yellow delivery people? They’ve been nothing but phenomenal with me…they deliver my Dell computer parts post haste…my reputation must precede/procede? me. But again, because you’re my friend, I will make a yellow and red truck out of material and stick quilting pins in it for you for them messing up…
Ness
LOL Ness – thanks, I really appreciate your efforts on my behalf :D
I will be hHappy to write to Snackwells for you – I loved their chocolate yogurt! How could that have NOT sold, I ask you?
And due to the many recommendations, I will try the whips. I actually usaully buy plain yogurt and mix in my own fruit and splenda – much cheaper.
CM – I actually anticipated your comments & you made me ROFL. We will never be entirely free of our DNA will we ;)
Thanks to everyone else as well – you can be sure this will not be the last venting post we will see here.
Maybe if you mention a certain “chocolate” colored shipping truck in your next letter, you will see some results!
Not trying to be mean. I was trying to get your mind off the food and delivery disasters so you could calm down.
:)
YR
Thanks for the visit, dlyn, and for the redirect for a humorous stop at your place! :)
Yeah. where’d they put that chocolate, anyway?! egads! :)
You are welcome at choicecentral any time! :)
mom just so you know BCP also means birth control pill in medicaloligy
I thought of that Lauren – after I had posted it and I am way too lazy to go back and change all the BCPs to Boston Cream Pies ;)
Have you heard from Snackwells yet? I loved that yogurt. It was truly the only yogurt I ever ate.