Monday, December 04, 2006

Am I a Pinkberry Slut or a Pinkberry Whore?


Yes, yes, yes... I know what you're thinking. ANOTHER freakin' Pinkberry article that you're quoted in? What are you, some kind of Pinkberry media whore?

I thought about this a lot over the past few days and you know what I concluded? Um. NO, I'm not a whore. Whores get paid for sex their words, or at the very least, they get free meals. I'm not in the business of eating free yogurt (well, except that one time... oh yeah, and that other time).

No, rather, I like to think of myself as a Pinkberry SLUT. I give it all away for free and I love it. Quotes for your article? No problem. Pages and pages of emails with all the info you could possibly need about yogurt facts and trends? You got it. In fact, I'll tell you just about anything you want to know about Pinkberry, except for their secret recipe, which one of the store managers gave away in this article (think he's fired yet?).

Read the full article here


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18 comments:

Anonymous said...

Awww... Who's my special Pinkberry girl? That's right. *You're* my special Pinkberry girl!

There was somewhere I was going with this, but I forgot where it was. Oh well. Congrats! Never fear. As far as I'm concerned, you're a Pinkeberry *lady*.

- Chubbypanda

Anonymous said...

Congrats mama! I haven't had time to post this...but Fiore's got flavored yogurt now. Plain, blackberry, green tea, and "lemony" which I think they changed to extra sour. The berry one was pretty bland to me.

Anonymous said...

hi pinkberry lover, am also a die hard fan. BUT, i recently found out from a friend that works at one of the locations that pinkberry's *secret* formula is not made with any live active cultures! say what???...how does my friend know that? the main ingredients come in powder form, with sugar and a hint of milk! whats up with that! isn't that false marketing? what happened to all the supposed *health benefits*? has anyone bothered to ask the owners what the real nutritional benefits are? if you read the fine print in there west hollywood location, they are very vague, and frankly shady about what is really in the frozen yogurt. don't get me wrong, i love the yogurt, BUT, i find it a bit odd that they don't really tell you what's actually in the yogurt. who knows what they are putting into the *secret formula*? i think people are being fooled to thinking pinkberry has some nutrional value, it does taste like it has lower sugar content than ice cream, but really has no real health benefits normally associated with yogurt, like hello, live cultures??? live cultures do not survive in powder form??? duh??? can you please verify whether this is true. i would be so sad if this were the case. also, i noticed the workers are very rude, a bunch of high school kids need some basic training in customer service! i am a striving actress and go to pinkberry religiously because of taste and supposed health benefits, and i'm sure others do too. i had a good korean girlfriend in college who would always tell me be careful of korean business people. i just don't want to be growing something weird in my bottle because i ate too much pinkberry.

Anonymous said...

Shadyberry,

Given your name, that you've only had your Blogger account for a week, and that your post is essentially a Pinkberry bashing rant based entirely on rumor and hearsay from "friends", I find 'cause to doubt your motives for making this comment. The fact that your comment is similar in tone to another past Pinkberry-basher, "bizfood", is highly suspicious to me. Bizfood posted two anti-Pinkberry comments, one on Colleen's blog and one on Chowhound, before fading into obscurity. Will you do the same? Are you also a marketing hack or jealous competitor trying to fuel anti-Pinkberry sentiment? Do you have the intestinal fortitude to reply to this comment?

I also consider your remark about "Korean business people" somewhat racist and definitely in poor taste.

Let's be clear. I'm not a Pinkberry fan. In fact, I consider them overpriced and under-flavored. I'm also not Korean. However, I am offended by what I see to be a shallow attempt at using a popular food blog in order to impact Pinkberry's market share.

- Chubbypanda

PS. Your grammar sucks so badly that I suspect you're doing it on purpose. Just like every other marketing hack I know who's tried to make posts to a blogosphere that they don't understand.

El Bandini said...

I've had pinkberry everyday this week. I think I'm addicted. Every day at about 4pm a pinkberry bell goes off in my brain and I stop what I'm doing and drive to a pinkberry.

today I was christmas shopping at Fry's in Manhatten Beach and the pinkberry bell went off.

I ditched the plans to stop at a barnes and noble and drove straight to the pinkberry on sawtelle and olympic.

I need help.

Eddie Lin said...

Damn, you ho'bag, seems Pinkberry is just as controversial as Iraq nowadays.

Congratulations on the article. You'll always be a high class call girl or a hooker with a heart of Pinkberry to me.

Oishii Eats said...

I love that Bandini is hooked on Pinkberry!!!

Anonymous said...

I heard Young Lee used to be a door man at a night club in korea town, since he is very flaming they decided to let him try and design the club but he messed things up and it ended up looking like a pinkberry with disco balls, and he got canned. then he got hooked on drugs went to rehab then decided to open wine shop with no parking then when that failed to get approval he overheard some people talking about this yogurt that was a big hit in korea, he eventually bribed the right employees from the korean chain and got the recipe,then he goes online and cuts and paste from the 4 major brands that have been in business since 98 (ie). Logo/design concept/taste then he fowards all the attention and spotlight to his girlfriend Shelly,who wouldnt know how to open or operate a profitable business if her life depended on it, because he has a tarnished and shady image that only a psycho whould do business with so she ends up being the perfect scape goat. so this is the story of pinkberry.

Anonymous said...

oh almost forgot about the kickass marketing team starting with their PR who lies and bribes editors and writers and gets them on all the hip magazines and newspapers, and online blogs headed by coleen cuisine and her online blogging army. but to their credit so are every other so called chains

Anonymous said...

I gots your Chubby Panda Right here.

Anonymous said...

HEy I like yogurt too but I dont like to talk about eating it all day.

Anonymous said...

I find it very interesting how most of these so called blogs seem very "AD"like

(ie)" Man this stuff is good Im hooked its the best and can be found at 1234 Idiot St. los angels ca, 90210, (323)555-1212 and they open from 9to 10 and heres some product shots I took before I ate this stuff.

Anonymous said...

I find it very interesting how most of these so called blogs seem very "AD"like

(ie)" Man this stuff is good Im hooked its the best and can be found at 1234 Idiot St. los angels ca, 90210, (323)555-1212 and they open from 9to 10 and heres some product shots I took before I ate this stuff.

"Because I always carry a camera around when I go eat yogurt for some odd reason". Thats just one of the things I like to do you know"

collleen cuisine said...

!!!!!!!!!!!!NEWS FLASH!!!!!!!!!!!!
**********************************
I heard that Pinkberry bribed the franchisee's of the kiwiberri @ 3rd & La Cienega into purposly running the business into the ground then sell the business to Pinkberry for a large amount.. I didnt beleive it so I went by today and it looked a mess and get this the owner even told me quote " Were closed go to Pinkberry down the street it's better" I was shocked , could the rumors be true , I came to enjoy a kiwiberri yogurt because I like the distinct tangy and clean flavor of it , why would the owner of the establishment pursuade me to go to their competitor, this is confusing and if Pinkberry does business in this manner I for one woould never step inside their store.

Colleen Cuisine said...

I know none of my readers are this stupid, but I just want to point out that the person posting as collleen cuisine with three l's is not me. Yes, I have the ability to delete these posts, but I choose not to because they amuse me.

bizfood said...

Like I said, TRUTH will come out...
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pinkberry10may10,1,4986596.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

Chubbypanda, do your research before you accuse everyone a basher. I only speak the truth.

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