Cabot Greek Style Yogurt- Please read while not eating

michellelemorgan

well, I guess I have a stronger stomach than most as I kept on eating my yogurt bar (not cabot!) while reading this!

that said, you should have kept what you found for a number of reasons, most especially if you were worried about other people ingesting it in their yogurt. It's hard if not impossible for Cabot to investigate the batch at al without anyway to identify it, even if they did take you seriously.

I doubt it was cow skin as there is a long line of things between the cow and the yogurt. I also doubt it was human skin the way you described it.

possibly it was some sort of gelatinous fermented product, or mold. Often they are pinkish and smell fishy/wormy.

Sorry for your shocking experience, maybe it means you should be eating slightly less yogurt?


As for those who are not familiar with Cabot, it's a fairly small scale New England dairy which I doubt gets shipped all that far South or West. I would think being located in Vermont and being smaller than most it would probably have a better quality control ethic than most.
I've always enjoyed their cheeses!

Yes. I don't want people to misunderstand. Cabot is great. It's a coop and they are located in Vermont and are very open about their manufacturing practices and a person answered the phone when I called. I didn't get a machine that can't be said for most companies. I appreciate all of those things, and like you said... I should have kept it... but I didn't. I just want people to know so they don't eat anything like that. Whatever this thing was in is already out there.. on supermarket shelves. The container I was eating out of expired June 20. So if you're eating anything that expires after that date then I imagine you would be in the clear.

I really, really don't think it was mold. I don't, but I'm not a scientist... it was two shades of pink... light on one side and dark on the other and very chewy and it smelled terrible.

Chickyjd

OMG that is disgusting! Holding back urge to puke! Poor you though having to go through that

TigressPat

well, I guess I have a stronger stomach than most as I kept on eating my yogurt bar (not cabot!) while reading this!

that said, you should have kept what you found for a number of reasons, most especially if you were worried about other people ingesting it in their yogurt. It's hard if not impossible for Cabot to investigate the batch at al without anyway to identify it, even if they did take you seriously.

I doubt it was cow skin as there is a long line of things between the cow and the yogurt. I also doubt it was human skin the way you described it.

possibly it was some sort of gelatinous fermented product, or mold. Often they are pinkish and smell fishy/wormy.

Sorry for your shocking experience, maybe it means you should be eating slightly less yogurt?


As for those who are not familiar with Cabot, it's a fairly small scale New England dairy which I doubt gets shipped all that far South or West. I would think being located in Vermont and being smaller than most it would probably have a better quality control ethic than most.
I've always enjoyed their cheeses!

Yes. I don't want people to misunderstand. Cabot is great. It's a coop and they are located in Vermont and are very open about their manufacturing practices and a person answered the phone when I called. I didn't get a machine that can't be said for most companies. I appreciate all of those things, and like you said... I should have kept it... but I didn't. I just want people to know so they don't eat anything like that. Whatever this thing was in is already out there.. on supermarket shelves. The container I was eating out of expired June 20. So if you're eating anything that expires after that date then I imagine you would be in the clear.

I really, really don't think it was mold. I don't, but I'm not a scientist... it was two shades of pink... light on one side and dark on the other and very chewy and it smelled terrible.

well the process to make yogurt is basically a sort of fermentation, and with the Greek yogurt, they just strain/let it sit longer, so I am in favour of that particular batch just setting a bit badly and creating a more gelatinous product. It is basically milk left out in the heat for hours, after all!

I hope you do get over your horrible experience, as I do agree, in general Cabot's products are terrific, and seem far better quality than most.

yelliezx

Gag!!! Thanks for the heads up!

SkinnyBubbaGaar

HeidiCooksSupper

I worked at a commercial bakery for several summers in college and that cured me of any food squeamishness. I draw the line at things processed in China but as far as what you found in the Cabot yogurt that resembled skin -- it might have been formed by casein which is part of what coagulates in milk to make cheese.

There may be somewhere in their machinery that such a coagulation was developing and it let loose into your container of yogurt and probably some others. Casein plastics can be very strong and were used to make buttons. Casein glues were used in gluing the wood frames of early airplanes. So, as you can imagine, a skin of coagulated yogurt might resemble skin of something else especially since yours seems to have been developing long enough that it developed a pink tinge, probably from bacteria.

Still in all, you were right to report it. Did they ask for any of the lot numbers on the container? They should have.

meribethd

my god.