little blog on the prairie

Jenna over at A Mom For All Seasons posted last week about local places to get the official treat of summer, ice cream (or in our case, custard). This got me thinking once again about a topic that was raised by a friend who is a C-U newbie: Where the heck can you get some decent frozen yogurt in this town?

This was a mind-altering question for me. I racked my brain to think of a good place for froyo (ie not Baskin Robbins), and since the demise of Delights at the Illini Union, I couldn’t think of one. I haven’t been to the Za’s on campus for awhile, so I’m not sure if Delights just moved in over there (I’m sure a reader could confirm this for me) but Delight’s isn’t really what I think of when I think of a fro-yo shop. Maybe I am stuck back in the days of TCBY. But as the New York Times proclaimed in February, frozen yogurt is back. In the land of fruits and nuts (California), trendy chain Pinkberry is all the rage. (Up north in my hometown, froyo never left. The same mom-n-pop shop has been selling the stuff since yours truly was in grade school.)

I don’t need something along the lines of Pinkberry, but I don’t need the calories of a Cold Stone or a Culver’s. Makes me long for the TCBY days. Call me crazy.