The Explore-Exploit Tradeoff

[4am@lemm.ee]

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.

[azertyfun@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[staticfalconar@lemmy.world]

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?

[obstreperouscanadian@lemmy.ca]

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

[tikiporch@lemmy.world]

Vanilla is the finest of the flavors.

[crusty@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I'm rather fond of pistachio myself

[robust_mirror@aussie.zone]

Same thing happened to salt. Things like potato chips flavoured with salt are considered plain.

[hehehe@lemmy.world]

Yes vanilla is not plain. The plain flavour is Rabri. It's just you don't have rabri in the west that's why you all think vanilla is plain.

Also rabri ice-cream >> vanilla ice-cream

[magnyusg@lemmy.world]

Meanwhile salt and vinegar are the best flavour combination and will burn a hole in your mouth because you ate too much.

[slackassassin@sh.itjust.works]

Although salt has a flavor, it's more so a flavor enhancer because of the positively charged properties of the sodium after dissociation. So, it's pretty fair to call it plain given the myriad of options, and that potatoes are trash without it.

[chessmasterrex@lemmy.world]

I think it's reasonable to go for a pretty standard flavor in that setting to have a reference point. I kind of do that with pizza, pepperoni the first time I try a new restaurant and if it's good I'll try other toppings the next time.

[robust_mirror@aussie.zone]

They're trash without it because they are actually plain without it.

[theloneminon@lemm.ee]

Dude could've gotten vanilla anywhere, but instead spent his time and energy to go on a quest with his friend to get the ice cream he really wanted. Then he booted him for wanting a "plain" flavor. YTA.

[fuglyduck@lemmy.world]

In the US, it’s probably Browns.

[slackassassin@sh.itjust.works]

Salt is in everything for a reason beyond flavor, is all.

[cheesyfox@lemmy.sdf.org]

if you don't like vanilla, that's because you've never tried an actually good ice cream.

[rooty@lemmy.world]

Vanilla is unironically the best flavor, chocolate based ones are not refreshing an fruit based ones taste like food dye no. 6.

[wizard_pope@lemmy.world]

Guess you never had good fruit flavoured ice cream then

[wizard_pope@lemmy.world]

Nah even just milk is a good flavour.

[hammocks4all@lemmy.ml]

The place is also hard to get to, must not get great ingredients often