The Explore-Exploit Tradeoff

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'I fear not the ice cream shop that has 2000 different flavors, but I fear the ice cream shop that has 2000 vanilla flavors"

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VANILLA IS NOT PLAIN

VANILLA IS A COMPLEX FLAVOR

I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL

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I'd say the measure of an ice cream shop should be their vanilla. No gimmicks. No cover ups. It's the industry standard.

If your vanilla slaps, that's all I need to know.

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Plain or not, vanilla is common. According to this comic, you will die when your body hits the bottom.

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Yes, exactly. If the shop can't make good vanilla, then they're a gimmick shop.

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Haha when I want to try a new brand or location, I judge it by how good their vanilla is.

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Not plain, just basic. It’s in a lot of other flavors.

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Dude made the climb. Gets whatever flavor they want.

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Thank you!

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High quality vanilla ice cream slaps beyond belief, I don't know where sushi shops source it

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Which is fascinating because it used to be very rare until we figured out how to make a 100% equal replica chemically for cheap.

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same, but chocolate

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Still prefer real vanilla for cold things. There's more flavors in it than just vanillin. Most of that gets destroyed at higher temps. So for baked goods, artificial vanilla is indistinguishable.

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I WILL STAND WITH YOU, BERATNA

VANILLA ICE CREAM IS BEST ICE CREAM

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Did bandana kid do this against their will? Did they sacrifice everything to get their friend to this? Were they led to believe that friend was going to get something more complex up until this moment? Did they not care at all about the ice cream?

Why are they so invested on their friend getting something complex? Seems like bandana kid is judging their friend based on criteria that deeply personal, and is kind of a tool.

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Vanilla extract became expensive, many ice cream makers used less, end result vanilla is considered the bland flavor because there is never any vanilla in it.

It’s fucking milksugar.

Find a vanilla with actual vanilla in it and it’ll grow hair on your tits, sweetie.

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So is chocolate, yet no one complains about it.

"Vanilla", for some reason, has come to mean "plain" in English. That is a specific linguistic quirk. It doesn't exist in my native language, and not coincidentally no-one who I share this native language with would think to give me shit because my favorite ice cream flavor is vanilla, because it'd be just as nonsensical and out of the left field as making fun of someone for preferring chocolate flavor.

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How well an ice cream shop does vanilla will be an indicator of how well they do the other 1999 flavors. Is it quality ice cream or a whole lot of chemicals to get your flavor?

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Exactly this. Establish a baseline before trying the more exotic offerings.

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Vanilla is the finest of the flavors.