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| - Three years ago, I would drive for 20 minutes to fulfill my fro yo fix, and now I can practically find one on every corner. With that intro, let me welcome the newest yogurt to enter the block; Menchies,
While waiting to go into a meeting today, I checked out the latest shops to enter Scottsdale Quarter and noticed this new shop staring at me from my car. It's got prime real estate on the corner and right by H & M which I think is pretty fitting to the brand.
I entered and was immediately greeted by an enthusiastic staffer. I asked for some sample cups and she asked me which flavors I would like to try and got them for me. Although this is a self serve yogurt shop, I've noticed that some run by this regulation where only the staffers can pour the samples. However, it's a complete hit or miss with each shop I visit. So, I tried several flavors and as I made my frocision on flavors, took note of the following:
1. Creamy good. Their yogurt tastes like solid cream.
2. They have several fat free options, but be sure to pay attention because not all the flavors are fat free...only a couple.
3. They have a decent amount of toppings in dainty little covered containers.
4. They have a loyalty card so be sure to grab one if you plan on making several visits: buy nine and get the 10th free.
5. Randomly enough, they sell chap stick at the front for around $1.80. I guess you never know when chap lips will hit!?
6. The prices are relatively decent. I paid around $2.00 for my snack.
And here are a couple final thoughts:
I typically could down a gallon of frozen yogurt if my will power had a day off, but today I actually couldn't psychically finish my dinky little cup of it! I didn't even get that much of boysenberry and chocolate mix, but the flavors are so heavy and creamy that a couple bites seriously feeds my addiction and fills me up.
Along the lines of heavy frozen yogurt, I felt like I was in the frozen yogurt episode of Seinfeld where they claimed the yogurt was fat free until everyone started gaining weight and Ellen took it in to be tested. There is nothing fat free tasting about this frozen yogurt and it tasted like I had just eaten ice cream rather then a healthy frozen snack.
So with that I say goodnight and will see you again Menchies!
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