Mastodawn

"Want anything from the store?"
(I'm feeling a bit sick and over stimulated)
"just some vanilla ice cream"

(later... phone rings)

"Uh... babe...there are six kinds of vanilla ice cream? French Vanilla? Vanilla Bean? Classic Vanilla? Cutting Edge Vanilla?..."

Why would they do this? Why did they take vanilla ice cream: the food of people who are feeling plain and simple and overwhelmed and make it complex?

	Classic Vanilla
	Vanilla Bean
	French Vanilla
	Country Style Vanilla

Poll ends at Mar 31 at 11:01pm.

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Hugo Mills

@futurebird "Classic" is probably just a one-note hammer made with a completely synthetic flavour molecule. "Bean" may have been shown a photo of a vanilla pod at some point during the manufacturing process. "Country style" is the same as "Classic", but wears chaps and a hat. "French" should taste better than the others, but only does so in some areas of France and Quebec.

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Hugo Mills 1d ago

@futurebird Synthetic vanilla flavour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanillin

Actual vanilla has loads of other stuff in it too, and definitely tastes better.

Vanillin - Wikipedia