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[Drama chat] Licking the yogurt foil

Ridiculous topic? Perhaps, but it is one that has been plaguing me for a long time. The question is simple — Do you lick the yogurt off the foil before you throw it out? — but the ramifications in dramaland are huge.

I’ve seen this discussed, noticed, and referred to in several dramas, but when Yumi’s Cells 2 had a whole plot point around it, it really started to bug me. In Yumi’s Cells 2, our heroine is suspicious that her perfect boyfriend Bobby may in fact be a chaebol heir. *GASP*

In order to covertly uncover the truth, she resorts to the age-old test: the licking of the yogurt foil. If he doesn’t lick it and merely throws away the three grams of yogurt on the foil, he’s a lofty chaebol. But if he licks it, he’s a good-hearted commoner like the rest of us. Well, Yumi’s plan goes up in smoke, because Bobby doesn’t lick the foil… but Bobby also isn’t a chaebol heir.

Quirky humor aside, I can’t stop wondering if this is actually a thing. I began to overthink my own yogurt consumption. Confession: I have never once licked the foil on my yogurt, nor do I plan to start. But I’m also the farthest thing from a chaebol heiress. So… what say you? Is there any meaningful correlation between yogurt foil licking and one’s bank account? Social strata? Personality type? I need to know.

Over to you, Beanies!
 

Do you lick the foil on your yogurt? Does this truly signify something about your innate character traits and/or expected family inheritance?

 
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Hmmm. Maybe your non-interest in licking the foil is a trait you carried over from your previous life as a chaebol heiress @missvictrix 🤔

As for me, I'm a licker because I paid for the entire yogurt -- including the yummy bits stuck on the foil.

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@unit ooooh, do you mean that lifetime where Junho and Joo Ji-hoon were competing for my heart? that was a good one

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I'm trying to imagine a stare-off between Junho abd Joo Ji Hoon. Nope. Nobody's gonna survive that wildfire.

On the other hand, they could each have chosen one of us. Everybody survived, everybody happy. Right?

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I'm a non-licker because I hate the thought of any of it getting smeared on my nose/chin/cheek/and even hair. But I will scrape every gram of it off with my spoon.

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Yes that’s my technique too

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I’m a licker, but I think for me it’s mostly a cleanliness thing. Most of the time when I open a yogurt or a pudding, I’m not immediately near a trash can because I’ve carried it with me (unopened) to another room or to my desk at work. So when I open it, I have to lay the lid down somewhere until I’m ready to throw all my trash away together. And so, I lick the lid to avoid yogurt transfer onto whatever surface I rest the lid on temporarily.

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I scrape, and fold 😁

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Same, i just know I’m going to drop it yoghurt-side-down if I leave it be.

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It ALWAYS lands yogurt side down. lol

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😅 I don’t lick either. But I do scrape off some yogurt using my spoon if there is a lot sticking to the foil! I don’t like scraping the foil too much. Not a fan of the aluminum foils.

Does throwing away the foil with yogurt makes one feel like a chaebol? Or do chaebols don’t even notice the yogurt on the foil?

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While in the show, the dilemma was straightforward about licking or throwing, commoner or chaebol, I think real life chaebols will not even notice the yogurt on the foil.

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Do chaebols even eat grocery/convenience store yogurts in their day-to-day life of chaebol-ing? I feel like they would get their yogurt already in a bowl with toppings artfully placed on top of it.

I'm a non-chaebol, non-licker.

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Having never lived a chaebol life nor having meet a chaebol in my life, I cannot confidently agree nor disagree.
At least while in school they would have access to these foods?

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It depends on the yogurt and its texture and the foil :p So either licking either the spoon.

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Interesting point of view. I never licked the yogurt foil for a number of reasons. This is the list:

- when I was little my mum made yogurts. Isn’t the yogurt maker a thing in your country? Well, it was in mine, so I spent my childhood eating yogurts from cristal glasses covered with plastic foils.

- I never liked yogurts. I had to ate them because my mum made me because she said I needed the calcium. The day I told her I didn’t want to eat one and she said it was ok I knew I had officially grown up.

- Now I that I am an ahjumma I have to take those little bottles with liquid yogurt you use to control cholesterol (better that than taking a pill). I still don’t like yogurts so I drink it quickly trying not to get too much of the taste. It goes without saying I don’t even consider eating the tiny foil.

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I have to add that when my mum used to have yogurts it was my cat the one licking the foil. And she was the closest I have ever met in my life to a chaebol. My sweet Catalina licked the foil and also a a Princess 😂

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Haha I was going to make a joke that chaebols don’t even see the foil because the maid brings their yogurt in a crystal goblet and here is a real life instance of that.

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My instant reaction is to throw it but if there's too much on the foil, I may think about scraping it with the spoon sometimes. Rarely if ever in that situation I'd lick it.

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In While You Were Sleeping, after Jung Hae-in discovers that Lee Jong-suk and Bae Suzy also have dream-seeing abilities, they try to figure out why them. If it's not because they were all born in the year of the dragon, then it must be because they all lick their yogurt lids. Lee Jong-suk: "Everyone in our country licks the lid except for the rich."

I lick because I'm not one to waste food or money. High-five @Unit.

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I don’t lick it because that feels unhygienic to me somehow (though I confess to occasionally eating bits of food I dropped on the floor if it’s within a few seconds), but I do scrape the yogurt with a spoon because I don’t like being wasteful. Maybe that reflects a middle-class upbringing or something? I don’t know. I still scrape with a spoon even as I’ve become more and more working-class than middle. Class signifiers from country to country are definitely an interesting topic.

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I'm a person who has been making her own yogurt for years so, no, no foil licking here, because there is no foil. I do lick the spoon when I spoon out an individual portion from the larger yogurt container, because that stuff is delicious. I take great pride in my long-lived and very tasty yogurt culture, and there is a good bit of alchemy involved in getting it to persist through many batches of yogurt, so read into my personality whatever you like based on that, I'm sure it's all accurate haha! For the sake of the demographic stats, I'm not a chaebol heir, or whatever the equivalent is in the US.

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@jls943 Oh, I have been wanting to make my own yogurt for so long but it intimidates me with the length of the heating/cooling process. Is it quite hard? (For context, I'm pretty good at keeping up my kefir and sourdough starters)

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Growing up in a tropical country, I am used to seeing my mom and everyone around me make yogurt daily! It was just a simple process. Warm left over milk, add left over yogurt from previous day and by next morning yogurt is done.
But once I moved to the US it became tricky due to weather. I ended up losing the culture during colder months. Then I used Natren yogurt starter and I quite liked the flavor. I would keep it in the fridge and it lasted long. I just warm the milk and add starter. And leave it in the oven with lights on. It’s usually done overnight or in 6-10 hours.

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Thanks for sharing! This is kind of similar to my kefir process except it doesn't require heat so it's pretty easy.

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I don't find it difficult, but I also use technology to help me. I didn't grow up making yogurt, so I don't really dare to do it by feel like some more experienced folks do. I just slowly heat whole milk to around 180F (~83C) and then let it cool to about 110F (43C) before adding my culture. I use a thermometer to tell me the temps so I don't mess it up. There are lots of ways to incubate, but I like warming my oven slightly and then letting the yogurt sit in there overnight with the oven light on. Then I let it sit undisturbed at room temp for a while before popping a lid on and putting it into the fridge. I think the longer you allow it to be undisturbed, the stronger the culture will be, and the more successful your next batches will be, but that's where the alchemy bit comes in because that part does feel like magic. I've given this guide to other friends trying it for the first time, and they've said it's a good one! https://www.seriouseats.com/homemade-yogurt If you're already keeping other fermentation projects going, I'd say this one won't be that tricky for you. It's a really simple process in the end!

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Thank you for the info and link. I am definitely doing this!!

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There are electrical yogurt makers out there that do most of the work automatically. Well, if you can afford to keep in on for HOURS as instruction requires... The one we briefly had didn't give the results on par with store bought ones, ofc, but it was still pretty edible (and probably much healthier lol).

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I think that would transfer to being a highly skilled wizard in fantasy drama of your choice.

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Score! Now I have to think long and hard about which fantasy drama I would want to be in It's obviously going to be Alchemy of Souls.

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My country has a very dark history when it comes to famines (among the HUGE variety of other types of tough times), so I NEVER waste food. And don't even let me start on the current prices for milk products here or the fact that I'm lactose intolerant and lactose-free anything is even less wallet-friendly... Forget the foil - I usually lick or spoon scrape the entire container and I have no shame whatsoever for that!

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I don’t think I fall in either camp consistently.🤔 I wouldn’t lick in the presence of others, though, so if other people are around and I want to clean the foil, I’d use my spoon. But sometimes, I think I just throw it away without licking or scraping. (I am nowhere near being a chaebol heiress, alas!) Maybe I’ll try licking even when I’m not on my own this year, just to try something wild.😝

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I love that you brought up the topic of other people being around! 😆 This is totally me. I only lick when no one is watching! (Gotta give off the chaebol vibes in public.)

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Even as an ahjumma, there are things I don’t do because I feel my mum’s disapproving side eye of judgment looming over me!

Also, there’s something about it that I would feel shy and self-conscious about, but this could be the year I break free from this!🤣

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I have licked my fair share of yoghurt foils. I think there would be truth to this if we didn't include personalities. For example, people with rich parents would probably not lick the foil lid because they are never hungry and so see food as a past time and not a necessity, compared to those who grew up food insecure. When you add in personalities though, things change. Some people just love food, and some are just self-conscious so they will never lick the foil. This reminds me a similar thing I noticed: How much meat do you leave behind after eating a chicken leg? Some go as far as chewing the bones (Me) and others leave behind perfectly good meat. I have noticed that a lot of rich kids do the latter, though I did meet a couple of outliers. Though, to be fair, I did not grow up eating a lot of chicken because it is expensive, so I relish every chicken lap I get. Is that also a good test for possible chaebol heirs?

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As a child I licked it, but now I scrape with a spoon. It just feels wasteful not to.
Same with beauty products, I always use what is on the lid or that little divider between if a product in a pot.

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I'm an extreme person so I've been known to buy spoons best shaped to get every last bit of yogurt from the container, so I'm a scraper. In my defense, it's less about economics and more that when I buy yogurt, I get the highest cultured Greek yogurts so I want to eat every last bite (cultured, as in probiotics and bacteria, not the arts :).

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Yogurt that is Educated™

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As an art teacher, I wouldn’t mind the transference of knowledge through cultured yogurt.

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holy... but you´d have to brush off its´protests of being eaten in the end. Might get an actual defence speech

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I guess I was assuming it wasn’t alive, just magically made people able to converse about the symphony suddenly

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I'm an extreme person who just last week bought a ladle the size of a cherry to be able to pull out exactly one pickle from my large pickle jar. Nice to meet you chingu!

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Scrape the lid with a spoon...what does that make me- middle class? 😀

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"Do you lick the foil on your yogurt?" - Yes, but they majority aren't foil here, they're paper or plastic.

"Does this truly signify something about your innate character traits and/or expected family inheritance?""
I mean, no, not the latter, lmfao.
Maybe the former, but not enough to worry about. But, as my father would say, "waste not, want not." 😂😂😂

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Depends on placement and mood. My own house on a Saturday when I stop worrying about hygiene for a day? Definitely gonna lick the foil. At my sisters house with people around? Going to scrape with a spoon.

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These are the intense and deep conversations make Dramabeans what it is. LOL

In my yogurt eating days, I was a foil cap non-licker not because I'm a chaebol but because the feel of the foil on my tongue is making me feel icky just thinking about it. For the sake of @missvictrix's records for science, I will reveal that mr egads is a cap licker and also scrape scrape scrapes every bit out of the cup (this might annoy me).

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For the sake of clarity, neither I nor mr egads are chaebols. And while not lacking for anything when we were kids or even now, by no means were we ever anything close to chaebol status. Anyways, everyone enjoy your yogurt.

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Not just the foil, imma scrape/lick every last bit of yogurt off the container cos that thing is expensive..not a chaebol obviously..😋

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This reminds me of a highly debated family discussion I had over Christmas:

You've just pulled your toast out of the toaster. You spread butter all over your nice piece of toast, but there's a little bit left on the knife. Do you eat that little piece of butter?

Alternatively, you're baking cookies. You dump a few sticks of cold butter into a mixer. There's just a few crumbs of butter left sticking to the butter wrappings... do they tempt you to eat them?

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I do not eat the butter. No.

Now, if that was peanut butter? Yes.

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Sometimes... If I feel like it... Butter in NZ is by default salted and has a high butterfat content so it tastes good on its own 😂

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One of my kids eats chunks of butter like it’s cheese 🤢 you have to watch her if there’s butter on the table with a meal because she WILL eat it all.

I like butter in things and with things but by itself? She does not get that from me.

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🤣🤣🤣🤣 that's hilarious. I love her lol.

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It’s hilarious but also just thinking about it makes me queasy 🤢 😂

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You could be a Bretonne in France!

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I could be! Instead I am just the cousin of a Bretonne, and a mongrel one at that, on the other side of the world. 😂

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The mere idea of eating butter on its own makes me feel queasy. I think the oiliness of it puts me off. Mr dramadillo would eat whole blocks of butter on their own, though, so we work out to zero waste in the household, I guess.

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Eat the butter. And pile a little more on the toast.

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Scrape that knife at the side of the hot toast, it will wipe clean immediately.

Butter your cookie sheet with that wrapper.
Or fold it neatly and put it in the little bag in the freezer with all the other wrappers, to later butter your cake moulds, baking sheets, or even the back of your cracked hands in the depths of winter! Yeah nothing goes to waste around here.

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Lol I guess I should answer myself: I am a butter eater ahaha

If it's toast, I'll swipe it off with my finger and eat it. But cold butter for me is the most tempting. If I'm making anything that requires cold butter, then those littler crumbly bits are just irresistible.

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I eat a piece of toast and clean the knife on the new edge.

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it is like automatic tho. not even conscious.

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Hmmm... it depends on the yogurt/dessert. Only if it is one of my favorite flavours, I lick the foil.

Just a few days ago I saw this same topic in While you were sleeping. The three main leads were licking the foils and considering if this one thing they had in common was the reason of their dreams :)

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I forgot to say that I prefer using the spoon to pick the yogurt on the foil, instead of lickering it XD

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When it comes to not wasting a drop of any type of sticky, gooey, and/or fatty goodness, I’m a scraper. The brand of yogurt I buy comes with paper laid against the yogurt underneath the foil; I scrape the paper against the inside rim of the container. When making cookies, I scrape the paper encasing the butter along the inside rim of the mixing bowl. I use a spatula to scrape the last few precious morsels from inside the peanut butter jar.

The only exception applies to any maple syrup remaining on the plate after I’ve finished my waffles; in this case, licking is the way to go!

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I'm a licker, even in public.
It's because I like yogurts, and mostly because it's cleaner to dispose of the lid. (that I fold neatly inside the pot...).
If the lid is only in aluminium, it's for recycling reason too. Better to have a clean Al piece so as to make a big ball, or a snake or ...
I'm not a chaebol either.

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I either lick or scrape the yogurt off the top of the foil. No family inheritance, immigrant kid…so yeah, we ate everything. 😂

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Agency has since tried to overthrow the notion that chaebols don't lick the yoghurt foil when Hanna played a secret camera prank on her chaebol chairman dad, who did indeed lick the foil lol. But I guess the increase in her followers from watching this surprising clip still proves that the default position is that chaebols aren't supposed to do the peasant thing like the rest of us haha.

I lick the yoghurt foil mainly because those yoghurt cups are way too small and it doesn't feel satisfying after finishing that small cup! So to let myself have that final satisfying feel (irrationally I admit), it just feels only right to finish off that last bit on the foil haha.

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You’ve just added another layer of intrigue to this question for me…if I’m going to do lick or scrape the foil, I do it before eating from the main pot. I like that it’s a finale for you, and now I want to know whether most people do one or the other, and whether that has some meaning too.🤣

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