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Of course: An organic frozen yogurt called Yöghund, made specifically for dogs with discerning palates, has been tapping into the city's seemingly inexhaustible market of crazy pet owners. Kennel owner Jody Rogers started the company two years ago because she "wanted to come up with a product that would help with relieving stress." Don't laugh; today's dogs face more pressure than ever to stay competitive with all these adorable cats. A Yöghund spokesman in this commercial says that "dogs get into this zone where once they start licking it, they generally don't stop until it's all done." Of course, dogs will also slurp up their own vomit until it's all done. And when it comes to frozen yogurt, the Post finds that four out of five dogs prefer the same thing humans want: Haagen-Dazs.

Fans of Korean fried chicken who frequent Saint Mark’s Place have been holding their breath since December for TKettle to start offering the crispy bird. But this delay hasn’t kept Andy Pan, owner of the bubble tea and dumpling emporium, from launching seasonal specialties. Colder weather brought soup dumplings and now that the mercury has started to rise above the 70-degree mark, TKettle is offering Taiwanese shaved ice.

Beloved and trendy frozen treat purveyor Pinkberry has agreed to a settlement in the lawsuit where the chain was accused of misrepresenting its product as "frozen yogurt" and as "all-natural." Pinkberry isn't admitting any wrongdoing but is, the NY Times reports, giving $750,000 to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, a food collection agency, and Para Los Niños, a nonprofit family service organization, plus paying legals fees of "plaintiff, Lisa Sutton, who said she suffered injuries and undue loss of money spent on Pinkberry product." Cue The Non-Fat Yogurt Seinfeld references (video above)!

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Eater confirmed that cupcake confectioner heavyweight Magnolia Bakery is opening its first branch location on Columbus Avenue and West 69th Street. Magnolia owner Steve Abrams, an Upper West Sider, told Eater, "My friends who know I own Magnolia keep asking when I'm going to open them a bakery up here. So I think it's time."

You asked, we answered. We sent members of the Gothamist team to the top frozen yogurt outposts in the city and even made our own. Here's a breakdown of what we discovered:

We're guessing most of you are hungover from St. Patrick's Day. We are too. But still, we're going to muddle on through our green haze and give you (drum roll please...) this Week In -ists.

Apparently New York is slowly but surely being taken over by frozen yogurt establishments. Both the traditional press and food bloggers have spoken volumes about Pinkberry, a West-coast chain known affectionately as "Crackberry" for its addictive qualities. Since we first reported on it in October, there have been articles in the New York Sun, the New York Times, and posts from Restaurant Girl and Off the Broiler. But a challenger to Pinkberry arrived recently -- Yolato, where, according to today's NYT dining section "the creaminess of gelato meets frozen yogurt’s refreshing tang." Yolato's first location opened in January, and its second opened today, and the Pinkberry empire has plans to open two more Manhattan locations.

In February 2005, the first Pinkberry opened on a quiet street in West Hollywood by 32-year old Korean entrepreneur Hyekyung (Shelly) Hwang. The frozen yogurt fiends came in droves, forced the LAPD to write 1,000 parking tickets because the store's neighbors couldn't find a place to put their cars amidst the visitors' SUVs, and now Hwang has signed more than thirty leases for yet-to-be-opened Pinkberry stores around the country.

Gothamist learns something new everyday! In today's NY Times profile of City Council Speaker and mayoral hopeful Gifford Miller, not only did we find out his first name is Alan, it turns out that Miller is also the one who worked on the "investigation into vastly understated calorie counts in some of the city's best-selling frozen yogurt brands" a few years ago! Oh, to be living in those simple days again.

After seeing Super Size Me, Gothamist has stopped going to McDonald's, even when we crave the fries, but now, the Associated Press gives us yet another reason to avoid the golden arches:

A teenager says she found a partially smoked, quarter-inch long marijuana cigarette in her frozen yogurt parfait at a McDonald's in South Texas.

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Jill Singer, Mediabistro Deputy Editor