
I was vacationing in California and saw a Pinkberry store. I just had frozen yogurt for the first time the other day, and I love it! I had always heard a lot about it, but for some reason there are no frozen yogurt stores around where I live.

Has anyone else noticed this? What types of frozen dessert stores are there in the South or Southwest? The other option could just be that frozen yogurt chains are relatively new and they are starting on the coasts and slowly working their way to the middle of the country. This makes me think that maybe Midwesterners don't like frozen yogurt as much as ice cream, so they don't spend money putting in a lot of stores. There are a lot of smaller chains, as well. I have noticed that we do have a lot of specialty ice cream places like Coldstone Creamery and Culvers, which is a regional restaurant that serves frozen custard. There used to be a TCBY frozen yogurt place in the next town over, but it went out of business several years ago. We don't have any frozen yogurt places around here, either. September 4, - I have actually noticed this phenomenon, too. Maybe frozen yogurt is more of a West Coast thing? September 4, - I live on the East Coast, but I can't think of a single frozen yogurt franchise near where I live! We have plenty of ice cream places, both chain and independent, and most of them seem to be very popular. If I'm ever in LA, I will definitely have to give it a try! I've never tried frozen yogurt that wasn't sweetened and I think it sounds kind of interesting. I'm kind of curious about Pinkberry though. TCBY is pretty good, but I have to admit I don't really have a preference between that and an ice cream shop.

I'm on the East coast and I can think of at least one TCBY that's kind of near where I live. September 5, - It might just be your area. With ice cream, I usually end up a complete mess! I prefer low fat frozen yogurt over ice cream just because it doesn't melt as quickly! If you get frozen yogurt in an ice cream cone, you can actually eat the whole thing before it melts all over you. It has less fat and less sugar, so I feel better about eating it than I do about eating ice cream. That being said, I prefer frozen yogurt because I think it's just a little bit healthier than ice cream. I never noticed that before I read this article, but now that I think about it, I think frozen yogurt definitely does melt slower than ice cream does.
