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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 2 years ago

how did we come to associate vanilla with “plain”

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4/18/2023

Rudra Dakini@the_wilderless• over 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth The real thing is expensive so fakes have always been most of the market,, And until the past few decades we were mostly pretty bad at making the artificial stuff, so it was kinda bland

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4/19/2023

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 2 years ago

Replying to @the_wilderless

@the_wilderless i heard “fake vanilla” is nearly chemically identical to vanilla https://t.co/tWaxMnZPZq

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4/19/2023

Rudra Dakini@the_wilderless• over 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth Like I said we got good at it at some point Have you had jelly bellies? We got real damn good at imitating specific flavors when we wanna

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4/19/2023

Rudra Dakini@the_wilderless• over 2 years ago

Replying to @the_wilderless

@AskYatharth (Also most vanilla is used for cooking, and cooking burns off the complexities of real vanilla anyway… so using the fake stuff there doesn’t miss much. Even the cheap fake stuff That said, if you use fakevs real in like a drink or sth… difference is palpable)

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4/19/2023

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 2 years ago

Replying to @the_wilderless

@the_wilderless vanilla for cooking versus for direct flavouring is a great distinction, thanks. it seems like you can taste the difference if you mixed it in straight

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4/19/2023

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

lmao https://t.co/XxMiEAzbzA

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4/19/2023

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

ice cream seems to be a big part of the story here https://t.co/Jq3OINWkHt

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 2 years ago

@Hi_individual1 vanilla ice cream just isn’t very vanilla often https://t.co/XAF4rTFqHn

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4/19/2023