To MEL’s credit, we have a documented history of exalting vanilla as a very important flavor. By the 1970s vanilla was perceived as being the plain flavor of the ice-cream world, and people began using the word itself to describe anything plain, ordinary or conventional.”

“The noun vanilla was first served up in 1662, but it took almost 200 years for its adjective use to become established for things, like ice and sugar, flavored with vanilla. In terms of describing plainness, Merriam Webster offers an explainer: (Vanillin is the term for synthetic vanilla.) “It seems Vanilla Ice, whom I will refer to as Vanillin Ice from now on, had something to do with this complete bastardization,” she jokes. #YallQaeda #bundymilitia #OregonUnderAttack /QGoB74sCxkĪnd while many people may be quick to claim the obvious relationship between vanilla and whiteness, Sylvia Anne points out that vanilla isn’t white- the cream in vanilla ice cream is. “ Vanilla ISIS” is a particularly bad one.

In terms of race, Sylvia Anne is referring to the way people have used the word to critique our country’s increasingly visible white supremacist population, often by tacking on “vanilla” before more appropriate descriptors like “terrorists,” or in some cases, by adding vanilla to the names of other, non-white, terrorist groups. Again, a far cry from the “ basic bitch starter pack” of pumpkin spice-latte and an evening of missionary. When I follow up with her on the phone, she adds, “Ancient Totonac Indians believed the vanilla orchid was born out of the soil bloodied by the princess Xanat and her forbidden mortal lover after they were murdered for eloping.” According to this database for vanilla lovers, while other tribes paid tribute to Aztec kings in gold or corn, the Totonac sent vanilla instead.Įgyptian pharaohs were mummified using styrax, an essential oil that smells like vanilla, and before that ancient Greeks burnt the stuff as an offering to the gods. I love dark ass orchid born vanilla.Ī post shared by Sylvia Anne on at 10:06am PDT If ur using #vanilla in a derogatory sense or to praise whiteness in some way ur surely on some imitation vanilla or delusional get a clue. In fact ancient Aztecs called vanilla 'the black flower.' It's also the second mos expensive #spice in the world. It's just so intense that you only need an iota for flavor, so other ingredients eclipse it color-wise like in vanilla ice cream for example the white of the cream is dominant. Actually vanilla isn't white it's dark brown. Furthermore it's maddening that vanilla is synonymous w whiteness. natively in Mexico and cultivated in Réunion and Madagascar. Did you eVeR stop to thiNk where vanilla beans come from? They grow preciously within the inner tongue of ORCHIDS. Actually vanilla is the most exotic of all the flavors.

Tbh I've had it w the abuse of the flavor #vanilla and its subsequent symbolism of anything basic.

Vanilla sex