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The Moderately Random "Plain" Vanilla Poll

Vanilla:

  • Plain

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  • A Flavor

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As the poll says: Do you consider vanilla plain or a flavor?
Personally, it kind of annoys me that vanilla is considered plain because, well, it's a flavoring (go look it up in a dictionary). Really, if it was plain, vanilla ice cream would just taste like frozen milk and sugar, but it doesn't. It's probably only considered plain because of its color. What do you think?
 
You should go to this ice cream place in Tenerife. They have over 200 flavours of Ice Cream and Vanilla is a flavour. :P
BTW Red Bull Ice cream tastes horrible but Baileys Ice cream = WIN! :D
 
Its a flavour...If you can get plain milk, and vanilla flavoured milk then they can't be the same can they?
 
Although vanillia is a flavour, I do refer to it as plain.

It's the same with ready salted crisps.
 
^Once again, Ian is my guiding light.

I consider it to be plain, even though I know it's a flavour. I rarely have ice-cream like that though... I think I may need some today.
 
Vanilla has become an adjective for something that is untouched/unmodified/out of the box or indeed... plain.

Whatever though, vanilla ice cream when it is high quality is definitely one of the best flavours.
 
I think it's just plain (haha) down to the fact that these are the most basic, most prevalent flavours there are (in the case of both Vanilla and Ready Salted crisps).

Both flavours are used in most things, with all other flavours piled on top. Both Vanilla and Salt are a base flavour that enhances the taste of most foods (salt for savoury, vanilla for sweet).

They're also unoffensive flavours, not bland as such, but not a strong flavour. They also don't colour anything. Hence why they're classed as "plain"

In fact, the dictionary says:
Not luxurious; not highly seasoned; simple;

Both salt and vanilla are a basic seasoning so wouldn't be classed as highly seasoned.

Also, if you look in a supermarket (over here anyway), "plain" crisps and "plain" ice cream are the two biggest "flavours", again compounding the idea that they are plain - the basics.

However, due to over enthusiastic pedantry, I call it Vanilla flavour as it is a flavour. MMF calls it Vammilla :)

It's a flavour, but I'm not going to shoot anyone who calls it plain, just look down my nose at them :P
 
It is a flavour, clearly. If you just have cheap stuff, then it may as well be plain, but if you get the proper high quality ice cream, then you can taste the real vanilla in it, making it a flavour.
 
A flavour. You can get actual plain cream ice cream, and then you can get different sorts of Vanilla, like vanilla cream, vanilla pods etc.
 
While it's definetely a flavor, it's not the same as, say, chocolate. Vanilla is more of a base flavor, while, on its own, it can taste good, but other flavors added to it make it taste better.

EDIT: Post numero 400!! :--D
 
Vanilla (taking the example of ice cream) is a flavour. Frozen cream does not taste like vanilla. Therefore to make a vanilla ice cream you need to add it in. Therefore, like strawberry and chocolate it is a flavour.

Ohhhhh! Now I want some neapoliton ice cream. To Sainsbury's!
 
*glares*

Although admittedly raspberry ripple is better. Genius ice cream. Perhaps furie invented it in his sleep? :lol:
 
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