• gastroglizzy@piefed.social
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    23 hours ago

    Vanilla is actually one of the most complex and layered flavors you can experience. It’s a shame it somehow came to be associated with being plain, bland, and boring.

    • Axolotl.cpp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 hours ago

      That’s due to commercial vanilla flavurs being only vanillin. Real vanilla has so much more things in it that gives it’s flavour

    • scytale@piefed.zip
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      22 hours ago

      For the longest time I thought vanilla was the base for ice cream and other stuff was added to it to make flavors. I apologize to vanilla for not treating and appreciating it as its own flavor for so long.

      • 🌈 vanta rainbow black 🌈@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        20 hours ago

        For the longest time I thought vanilla was the base for ice cream and other stuff was added to it to make flavors

        this is how they do shakes at fast food places

        they only carry vanilla ice cream. chocolate or strawberry syrup gets added to make it a different flavor

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      17 hours ago

      Vanilla carries ice cream. I’ve had plain (as in no flavorants at all) ice cream before, and that shit is vile. Cold dulls taste, so even though it’s made with cream an unflavored ice cream tastes like frozen skim milk.

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        12 hours ago

        Most likely still has vanilla and probably wouldn’t taste as good without. It’s like salt for desserts (well, in addition to salt being salt for desserts).