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memesgobrrr
· 2 years ago
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vanilla>chocolate
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cakelover
· 2 years ago
We got a white supremacist here bois
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xlaxxine
· 2 years ago
Pour chocolate syrup over vanilla and its even better. :)
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karlboll
· 2 years ago
Has anyone tried vanilla sauce on chocolate ice cream yet? Maybe we're missing out.
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memesgobrrr
· 2 years ago
holy shit hes right
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guest_
· 2 years ago
It’s something I think about sometimes sure- computers and cell phones and the internet aren’t as “simple” as spices, but they are amazing and unprecedented tools that would seem impossible through much of history but most of us use every day. They are also ubiquitous yet within the life time of many today didn’t always exist or weren’t yet something most or even many people were familiar with or had access to. A single poor quality video like an episode of your favorite program could easily take DAYS to download and fill a smaller hard drive alone. That doesn’t change the fact that even for people like me who lived through that, if a video takes more than a few seconds to load I get bothered lol.
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guest_
· 2 years ago
So it’s very true- many or even most of us live lives that royalty of the past would be envious of. Most of us get out of season and “exotic” produce transported to us from around the globe, even our simple bedding and furnishings rival or beat the comfort of those available in the past. Most of us have motorized transport and adequate or even too much nutrition. A single trip to the grocery store or online order can give us more than what an entire village of serfs once provided. We have regular “feasts” and sweets and goods from around the globe. Despite having it better in most material terms than any generation in history though, so many are dissatisfied. I suppose that’s progress- we want or expect more than people born in ages past. I am undecided wether that’s a good thing or a bad one. Maybe both, or maybe it depends on the specific nuances of what we want and why, the little details and so forth.
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deleted
· 2 years ago
1/2 Some vanilla facts: The natural aroma of vanilla derives from a long and complex fermentation process of the vanilla pods, and essentially requires a certain type of bacillus only found at the place of harvest. The process takes 12-15 weeks and includes 10-15 days of heat treatment, where temperatures need to be kept in a range between 30 and 50° Celsius. Without this process and especially without this bacillus, vanilla pods would have hardly any aroma. This is the main reason, natural vanilla is so expensive. Natural vanilla aroma consists of about 40 different substances. The most important and dominant is vanillin which is the only component that can be synthesized.
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deleted
· 2 years ago
2/2 This is the reason why artificial vanilla aroma and taste is just never the same as natural. Today, a majority of people don't even know what real vanilla tastes like, as the synthetic aroma costs close to nothing and is added to all sorts of food. When people are used to the pure vanillin, they often find the natural aroma comparably bland. Otoh if you're used to the aroma of natural vanilla, which is very complex and wholesome, you may find the artificial stuff both aggressive and boring at the same time. I could imagine this is why people started calling boring stuff 'vanilla', as it would even work from both sides.
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