How The FroYo Wars Almost Put Frozen Yogurt Out Of Business

[@chadh8132]

It’s always funny when sweet frog workers have you pay and the tip option comes up. Like, you stood here, I did all the work.

[@AarayKyramud]

I came here to say the same thing. Like, "all you did was weigh my shit and took my money and you want a tip?!!!"

[@sevenstars004]

People wanting tips is getting silly. Like going into a Dunkin Donuts, asking for a Boston Cream and the guy wants a tip. I tip well when I have a waiter/waitress, bartender, etc. I'm not tipping someone because they handed me a donut.

[@GirtheAlienGoldfish]

Because they're the ones who cut up the fruit, refill the toppings bar and the machines, clean up after you and stand on their feet all day. Don't be an asshole.

[@chadh8132]

@@GirtheAlienGoldfish sooooo there job?

[@chadh8132]

@@GirtheAlienGoldfish and let’s not act like most of the fruit is ore cut and the candies you use a slap chop

[@Pinstar]

The soft serve shop near me (Yo Lickity) has a price cap on the cost of any given cup. So you pay the per-pound price or the max price for that cup, whichever is lower. I'm really glad they did that.

[@pam8962]

What about Starbucks over 10 bucks for their largest coffee

[@annasahlstrom6109]

I remember TCBY and I really miss them.

[@enki1597]

They are still around

[@doeeyes2]

I wish they were still here in Toronto. I was obsessed as a little kid.

[@aaronmacy9134]

When I was a kid, my late Grandparents would take me and my siblings to TCBY every Friday after school. I still haven't figured out why my favorite was a cup of vanilla topped with gummy bears. Bland, the bears turned rock hard from the cold and lost most of their flavor from said cold. I'm guessing it was the whole Catholic penance thing making it's way into every aspect of my life as an 8yr old.😂

[@MYSTDI]

You could say that it's "The Cold War"

[@iwishiwasthemoon87]

@@MYSTDI The Cold War...it's back, and sweeter than ever

[@chrismayer3919]

RIMSHOT!!! 🥸

[@lyokianhitchhiker]

Dad?

[@hawawah8671]

Boo! Get off the stage!

[@terriwetz6077]

Frozen custard never became as popular as frozen yogurt and that's a real shame.

[@H.Giggity]

Culver's uses frozen custard. I like their mixers

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

@@H.Giggity So does Freddy's.

[@Xamry]

We had some yesterday! 🙋🏽‍♀️ I get chocolate with coconut shreds and my boyfriend gets peanut butter with Reese’s

[@HighAsHeckPriestess]

We've got Freddy's, Good Times, and Culver's. I dont go out to eat often, but I'll happily go broke for a frozen vanilla custard with reeses and cookie dough!

[@SgtLube818]

In Missouri we have a place called Andy's Frozen Custard. The Strawberry shortcake with Vanilla custard is amazing.

[@iwishiwasthemoon87]

I remember where I live, which is a medium-sized city, we had 8 froyo places open in 2013. Previously we just had a TCBY. Within 5 years, all of the places had closed except for the two Menchies locations and the TCBY. Then both Menchies closed (one rebranded as "Swirl World") and now we just have that and TCBY.

[@KnightFerrocous]

The big problem with frozen yogurt is the price. For as much as I spend on a single cup at my local place I could buy 2 1.5 quart tubs of brand name or over a gallon of off brand ice cream at my local grocery store and they are about equally healthy.

[@BoltBrethren]

That’s like comparing oranges to limes, they’re similar but not the same thing.

[@nomoretwitterhandles]

@@BoltBrethren You missed their point. If limes are cheaper than oranges, I'm probably going to go for the limes to get my fruit fix. FroYo is so expensive that many people figured they may as well just get ice cream if they're going through the effort of getting a frozen dairy treat.

[@flyingtypetrainer4072]

This was a great, well-researched video! I feel like I was just recently trying to understand how the froyo places near me seemed to "instantly" disappear.

[@Oonagh72]

TCBY once occupied the tallest building in Arkansas. It was called the TCBY Tower.

[@chrismayer3919]

I was born in Little Rock; how nice!

[@SlicedZucchini]

TCBY orange sherbet is where it's at y'all

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

I have a hard time believing that frozen yogurt is actually yogurt at all. When it is not frozen it is liquid and doesn't resemble regular yogurt's texture at all. If you froze a tub of regular yogurt, it would not be the same as frozen yogurt, either.

[@PrincessHellkat]

There was a TCBY right down the street from my middle school and I have memories of going there with my friends. They always had Arthur coloring pages. Not sure when it closed but I always think of it when I see that strip mall.

[@BoltBrethren]

Foyo will never get old. The shops I know are far in between, but they’re always packed.

[@rindred]

The part left out about TCBY is that they basically didn't own any of their own equipment. They had a lot of people investing in the company based on how popular they were and making dividends off their sales and expansion. But eventually, when the competition got big enough and people started looking at their books, it became clear that sales were the only value in the company because they owned no assets. Once their profits start falling, the slow slide into bankruptcy was the end result.

[@Troy-McClure81]

I remember when my Mom took us to TCBY...The level of disappointment in my young heart when I tasted it 😂😂😂

[@Momnpop98]

TCBY's White Chocolate Mousse swirled with lime sorbet the ultimate combo.

[@Xamry]

For me it was the chocolate coconut with a trivial amount of cookies and cream!

[@starryeye6511]

I miss that place TCBY, it was SO good

[@Monodi91]

i was in state college between 2012 and 2014, and I remember a complete saturation on the froyo market. on my area we had Yogurtland, TuttiFrutti, Red Mango, and Pinkberry; plus a smaller company inside our food court. by 2015 i was bluntly sick about these spots.

[@cgraham6]

The Menchie's near me opened probably five years ago and I don't think they've slowed down at all. Maybe a bit during the pandemic but they're now as popular as they've ever been.

[@TheTrumpReaper]

The frogurt is cursed as well. That's bad. But you get your pick of toppings! That's good! The toppings contain potassium benzoate. (pause) That's bad. Can I go now?

[@godofzombi]

You beat me to it.

[@Cyberzombie23]

Thank you, kind sir.

[@machinamawatcher]

My wife is from Appalachia and she practically SCREAMED when she saw Sweet Frog, like you activated some deep core memory or something!

[@seatspud]

I miss Penguin's. See ya Tuesday!

[@Trigger200284]

the price of frozen yogurt put frozen yogurt out of business. Who in their right mind wants to spend twice as much money for the same product? Oooooo I can put garbage on top and pretend it's healthy at twice the cost....

[@LatitudeSky]

They want you to lay on the toppings of course. People eat with their eyes. But the stuff was already full of sugar and ends up being a big bowl of candy that won't keep. So you have a choice: eat it all because you paid for it all, and likely get sick from so much sugar, OR throw it away and get angry at yourself for spending so much money on candy you throw away. Either way, it's a bad niche for your product to own.

[@NoBettaFeta]

Kinda amazed there was not a single mention of Menchie’s in this video. That’s the first froyo place I tried in FL and still see them now in WA, too.

[@charlesedwards2856]

I’m from Boston and I never in my wildest dreams thought I would hear the name of Brigham’s get spoken anywhere about anything! I remember growing up having their restaurants/ice cream shops all over in damn near every town, including my hometown. Their ice cream still exists and is still delicious, but I miss a few of their flavors they did away with or lost the licensing to, such as coffee fudge and M&M Chocolate.

[@btetschner]

A+ video! LOVE IT! The frozen yogurt looks amazing too!

[@AdamYJ]

We never had Sweet Frog or Pinkberry around here. We had TCBY, Menchie’s and 16 Handles, plus a couple of local places that serve both froyo and bubble tea.

[@melonseeds2893]

In Australia, there is currently a huge frozen yoghurt craze at the moment, it didn't take off here until after COVID

[@rustyshackelford312]

One of the greatest injustices of childhood was the tcby's rainbow cream, was just vanilla frozen yogurt with food coloring.

[@sve5271]

There’s a great regional chain near me called skinny dip, even either their own low cal froyo. Amazing flavors and a pretty healthy snack since they offer a ton of fruits like strawberries, kiwi, blueberries etc

[@rusnikfromtranscarpathia]

When I was in high school in the early 90s, CoolCactus was our little hometowns Froyo go-to place in Parker, Arizona. Mine was a medium van-choc swirl with mini chocochips. Lol

[@Panwere36]

Frozen yogurt is good, but the simple truth is that ice cream was never going to be phased out.

[@JazneoGaming]

make ice cream much eaiser

[@spencerwelchii573]

You forgot to mention the West Coast based chain Heidi's Frogen Yozurt (yes, it's spelled correctly) founded by 'Health Promoter' and body builder Heidi Miller in 1982, but folded by the early 1990's.

[@HDCalame]

All I know of around here are icecream restaurants that also serve frozen yogurt. I don't know of any dedicated frozen yogurt shops at all.

[@robintauber9994]

The local Boba MilkTea shop also has frozen yogurt (though it's currently closed for renovation after a street crew broke a water main and flooded them and the place next door. I hope they reopen soon. They are a nice family owned small business.

[@studiesinflux1304]

I forgot about frozen yogurt places for over a decade until I saw this video. I forgot the name of the frozen yogurt place I went to a few times (it disappeared before 2010). At home I stopped buying frozen yogurt (or even “low fat” ice cream) after seeing enough shows that said you’re better off getting regular ice cream but have less of it at a time. (I assume the advice still holds up with today’s studies, since FroYo adds more sugar or other flavouring to compensate for the sour taste of yogurt.)

[@WaynoGur]

We had a chain in California and Arizona called Penguins. It was my first foray into the world of frozen yogurt. Alas they have been gone from Southerm Arizona for almost a decade now.

[@derekstein6193]

I think there is still a single OrangeLeaf near me. We used to have four different froyo places that were just pallette swaps of each other, literally. They were almost exact copies with the exception of their names and color schemes, but everything else was the same. This included names that were simply Fruit+Fruit Related Thing. I don't remember them all, but OrangeLeaf and CherryBerry were two. These places had some tasty offerings, but the price for what you got quickly priced me out.

[@smokerjim]

Moichendising, moichendising, where the real money is made, especially with frozen yoghurt, I call it Fro-ghurt!

[@TheChadc94]

When I think of TCBY, I immediately think of Arthur. 😊😂

[@BonneKlide]

I live in the Great Plains and we have Cherry Berry here. They’re pretty good and ours are still going strong. We like our dairy here, that’s for sure! 🍨

[@zacwoods]

The “competitors sprung up and blew away like vape shops in a strip mall” drop is why we love this narrator🤌

[@zacwoods]

9:38

[@asvpfern]

menchies is so good 😭 always look forward to it

[@mountaineergirl255]

In the 1990s my hometown mall got a Freshens Yogurt - it was the best tasting frozen yogurt I've ever had. I think they changed their business model to more like Sweetfrog/Pinkberry so I'm sure the recipe changed too.

[@doeeyes2]

I would kill for a TCBY. Sadly all locations around here (Toronto) have closed down.

[@tjcihlar1]

Froyo and ice cream both have a ton of sugar, but all these people were fooled to thinking one is healthier.

[@getoffmydarnlawn]

I remember the lines out the door when a TCBY opened by me around 1988/1989 or so, people losing their minds like they were eating a calorie neutral miracle health food.

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thanks for this! 🍦

[@angelasieg5099]

I loved vanilla wedding cake at orange leaf with fresh berries. I now freeze Yoplait whips yogurt.

[@jons.6216]

Funny that I lived through the phases of it! In the suburbs of the 80s they were on almost every corner like dog poop! When I left the burbs you could find frozen yogurt stations within food places, but not free standing. Nowadays I actually have to do searches to find any! Oh, and don't think you'll find M & Ms in the toppings stations! Just imitation "Pokies"! Haha!

[@chrismayer3919]

They both taste good, so since they essentially come from the same source, I never really could actually taste any difference. 😊🍦

[@JVPC13]

Do a video on the different types of pancakes & the history of them!

[@prototype7967]

Yall should do the history and flavors of blue bell icecream

[@dameoftherose8400]

There was an orange leaf and a menchies in the town I worked at and they both closed after Covid, I miss froyo

[@doeeyes2]

I miss TCBY so much! All the locations around T

[@Timbeon]

I love frozen yogurt, I prefer less-sweet desserts, and the tanginess adds a lot. Ice cream's great, but I'll pick froyo first every time.

[@Xamry]

I’d never heard of pinkberries until now

[@alexrgee]

"This is so fucking good!" - Jerry Seinfeld

[@Pr0toPoTaT0]

Why in the efffffffffffff arnt we still calling it frogurt? That sounds dope.

[@tremorsfan]

The Frogurt is also cursed.

[@propertyofpeter]

But you get your choice of toppings.

[@tremorsfan]

@@propertyofpeter but it contains Potassium Benzoate. That's bad.

[@matthewjay660]

I learned that some rich and lucky Romans used to chip ice from a mountain and put honey and berries on it calling it "sorbetto." P.S. Another way to say "the two-thousand tens" is "in the teens." The Tens, the Teens, and now the Twenties.

[@Nemo2342]

In my youth it was all about Zak's Frozen Yogurt

[@PhilipCrean]

Nothing like clicking the video and getting the correct narrator

[@Patriciaangelavas]

I assure you here in the Philippines blk 513 is a full detox treatment when it comes about talking frozen yogurt

[@GrumpyShihTzu]

We have 2 Yogurtland in town. They're always full.

[@btetschner]

Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal! Eating Sliced Strawberries from a frozen package*†...while watching this Weird History video! * Strawberries are from the Weird History video "Common Fruits And Veggies You Didn't Know Were Man-Made" and garden food that was frozen (the example is cauliflower) is from the video "The Delicious History of TV Dinners" † Always great to have strawberries!

[@Porka1987]

Let me get this straight, pasta and gelato originated in China, not Italy? Wow, I just discovered something new 😮

[@thegoldencarpcafe]

Yes, not to mention tomato sauce! Tomatoes where originally cultivated in South America and became a staple of Native American cuisine as a result! 🍅❤️ But you know what is Italian? The name America which was named after the map maker Amerigo Vespucci! 😂

[@Porka1987]

@@thegoldencarpcafe 👍 I had no idea about the tomatoes and the name. Thank you so much, education really is great ❤️

[@deadschooled]

TCBY white chocolate mousse why have you forsaken me 😭

[@MiyaMeniceX3]

I grew up withfrozen yogurt and i loved them more than actual ice-cream. I have a dairy intolerance and can only eat the dairy-free options if i don't want to be sick.

[@RedBloodA]

I miss the old fashion vanilla and Dutch chocolate flavors tcby ones had.

[@disableddanny96]

I think TCBY has the best chance. Self serving is a fun gimmick but you can’t run a business that way

[@LatitudeSky]

FroYo died when gas stations began offering it from self-serve machines, with all the toppings you care to pay for. And that was the other death note: that stuff was heavy and got expensive fast. Not worth it for damn gas station froyo.

[@matthew_natividad]

Time to hit up yogurt land now

[@milqueto4st231]

I remember Pinkberry. I don't remember Sweet Frog. Therefore, I don't believe it existed

[@JudyPatootie]

Damn AI giving King Soloman 6 fingered hands. AI is so damn lazy and unprofessional.

[@Xamry]

The cereal doughnut always makes me sick

[@jerranspearman3369]

good video

[@therealseanw.stewart2071]

0:04 I was adjusting my AirPods, thanks for that, WHF

[@DangerDave-e7u]

Froyo is a no go with a dairy allergy.

[@valeriorodrigues3351]

but the yogurt is acidic

[@EclecticDD]

I worked at a TCBY in the late 80s. We had to dip our hands in a mild sanitizer solution before dispensing the yogurt. Now, anyone off of the street can self-serve at most frozen yogurt shops. Fortunately, we haven't heard of any outbreaks traced back to one.

[@sebastianwoodall294]

Yogurt land or tutti frutti took my advice for a new flavor .... mr deeds ... " crazy eyes " it was peanut butter and bubblegum ..... was crazy delcious .... just like steve buschemis pizza

[@BrennenRaimer]

does frogurt carry a terrible curse??

[@Flac_the_Wave]

Well now I'm hungry :(

[@dasuqarts974]

Can we cool it with the AI Imagery a bit? There's plenty of historical photos or commissionable artists for you to choose from without feeding more gunk into Midjourney

[@cherie..cherry]

what images are ai? and how can you tell 😲? genuinely asking

[@dasuqarts974]

​@@cherie..cherryaside from the thumbnail being AI, at 00:06 this image of King Solomon has 6 fingers. AI is typically easy to catch due to minor irregularities and inconsistencies, but also because certain AI engines have a certain style they overuse; Heavy shading and unnatural lighting

[@jmepaints7014]

Agree. Hating the thumbnail so much.

[@greatmigrations4637]

Yes. Unsubscribing

[@jonathanhall1825]

I will stick with vanilla and cherry vanilla ice cream

[@chrisbellon3739]

We have sweet frog one, but we used to a orange leaf one too where's i live at

[@SupersonicFX]

Welcome back @Tom Blank

[@barbarakilpatrick3859]

Yumi Yogurt 1985 lands where in froyo land? They have stumbled upon police codes, why? We all like them. 😷⭐️👽🍦

[@kwamesmith3214]

The toppings contain potassium benzoate… 😐😐

[@CosmicRemix3000]

Love these videos!

[@SomeOrangeCat]

FroYo places really are "blink and you'll miss it" affairs. I've seen some of them open and close within the same month.

[@cassieoz1702]

Frozen yoghurt was NEVER healthy.

[@joelrsteele]

The correct narrator 👍

[@Spindash54]

Garage AI thumbnail

[@leocitywrestling7029]

It died with Froyolo

[@eggie1978]

Speaking of Crumbl, can you please make a video on the rise of gourmet cookie shops?

[@hayeonkim7838]

Thanks for meaningful and valuable video as always

[@JackalX111]

So, who is going to try and add milk to their batch of booze and let both ferment together before freezing it? (Or just serving frozen yogurt and a craft beer mixed together) I'm pretty positive if you mixed a Whitelaw or fruity craft beer and frozen yogurt together, all the white girls will go bonkers.

[@markedis5902]

Gelato or nothing

[@chrismayer3919]

Like any fad, it comes and it goes for nothing is forever. 🙂‍↔️