 In the 1950s, Sarkis Colombosian, an Armenian who had fled Turkey in 1917, began selling yogurt from an Andover, Massachusetts based dairy farm, which he purchased during the Great Depression.The family made the yogurt themselves and also made "tan".Armenian merchants in Watertown, Massachusetts began ordering yogurt, "labneh" and string cheese from Colombo Yogurt, and the product eventually made it on to supermarket shelves.