"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 .
@futurebird any of them, the important factor is that it's not just vanillin (this matters for non-baked things where all the fancy volatiles of the vanilla bean stick around) and that there's no gum additives to change the ice cream consistency.