What is the difference between "French Vanilla" and Vanilla?

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because its pissing me off.

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Sunday, 24 August 2003 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

freedom vanilla.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 24 August 2003 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Vanilla doubles as an adjective meaning "plain." French Vanilla doubles as a euphemism.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 24 August 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

it's like the difference between knickers and french knickers

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 25 August 2003 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

french vanilla ice cream has egg yolks in it and is creamier and heavier tasting (and usually a slightly yellower color than regular vanilla)

― geeta, Monday, 25 August 2003 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

French Vanilla is better.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 25 August 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

french vanilla goes with coffee, vanilla goes with cooking and ice cream (i say)

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 25 August 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

eww flavoured coffees are gross!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 25 August 2003 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

twaddle. flavoured coffee roxx ur all purists

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 25 August 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

what's your favourite kind?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 25 August 2003 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

hazelnut

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 25 August 2003 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

can't hold with that, sorry! but I'm particular!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 25 August 2003 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

oh well. mmm coffee shot + frangelico shot = sweet sweet bliss. i call it the 'manic monk'

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 25 August 2003 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

see, coffee + flavoured something else, that's a different story

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 25 August 2003 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

It took me a couple years to get used to nonflavored coffee, because coffee in Western Massachusetts is hazelnut by default. Seriously, you go into a bookstore there -- not a bookstore-slash-cafe-slash-crematorium triple threat, but a damn bookstore -- and they've got two kinds of coffee set up, hazelnut and decaf. If they have one, it's hazelnut. The ice cream places had hazelnut coffee ice cream (which is amazingly good, actually, and would be slutsky-approved in principle: coffee ice cream + hazelnuts). Non-flavored coffee just started to taste weird.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 25 August 2003 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Hazelnut gelato is SO GOOD.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 25 August 2003 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

French vanilla coffee is usually great. Unfortunately I tend to get stuck with the hazelnut vanilla instead, which is one flavour too many. But I take slutsky's point - Irish cream flavoured coffee is vile, while coffee + actual irish cream is fantastic.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 25 August 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Cream liqueurs in coffee would make my top ten list of Everything Ever Invented.

(As might hazelnut gelato, dammit, and I can't even think of when I last had it.)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 25 August 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

do people ever eat real hazelnuts?

― allyson (schmanktenputchka), Monday, 25 August 2003 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to make brownies with them pretty much as a default (see above), and they're great any time chocolate's in the room. I'm not fond of them for eating out of hand, but they're not terrible or anything.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep, your repetitious use of the phrase "by default" is fleetingly amusing to me. How many times in a row do you think you can use it in a post?

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

That's why I said "see above"! I got into the habit of hazelnut brownies while I was living in the land of hazelnut coffee.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn you. I was hoping to see "by default" in there somewhere. Well, my night is ruined.

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I, uh, I hear Tattoo from Fantasy Island couldn't find a safety deposit box big enough for all his stuff, so he decided to buy de vault.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

... Wow, just when I thought my night couldn't get any worse.

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Make up your mind!

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

but anyway, hazlenuts still are pretty unpopular as nuts when compared to their popularity as a fancy flavoring. it's not like you ever see peanut or brazil nut coffee. wuzup with that.

― allyson (schmanktenputchka), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I actually looked for hazelnuts the other day when I ... well, felt like nuts (shut up), but not peanuts. Couldn't find a one. Ended up with macadamias.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

did you dip your nuts in anything?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Cashews are way better for eating anyway (everyone knows this) but I can't even imagine cashew coffee.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

If this were the X-Files, we would have just proven that hazelnuts are made by aliens.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I love hazelnuts, especially in chocolate. Oh mama.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)

They don't make Wavy Gravy anymore, do they? Bastards.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

And Tep, those brownies sound like the best thing in the world.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

My brownies were legendary, man. Two kinds -- chocolate fudge brownies with dark chocolate chunks, hazelnuts, and fudge icing; and white-chocolate brownies with toffee chunks, macadamias, and caramel sauce. I was the Brownie King. Like Jim Morrison, only baked. Well, like Jim Morrison, only different.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Like Jim Morrison, only not eaten by maggots six feet under the earth.

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

And if I was, those maggots would be on a chocolate high to this day!

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

now Tep's brownies have maggots in them! in my mind

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

jewelly is like an agent of conversational chaos.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Then again, Tep, you're the only one who keeps responding to my stupidity, so you're my accomplice.

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep I keep re-reading your brownie description, and my brain is still having a hard time processing it.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't say stupidity, I said chaos! You turn hazelnuts to maggots and summon ropes of ass-hair from the deep. Much like Moses.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep I keep re-reading your brownie description, and my brain is still having a hard time processing it.

They didn't really have maggots!

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Did you really feed them to Jim Morrison?

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

On the right night, there's nothing that boy wouldn't eat.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

And now he's dead. Interesting.

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

no there's just too much good stuff co-existing for me to deal with!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Ohh, okay. Yeah, they were a little overloady, but I was also smoking heavily at the time, so that probably had more to do with it than I realized :) (I make creme brulee more often than brownies now, for better or worse.)

Stop trying to kill rockstars with my brownies, jewelly.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

48 answers and no one but Curtis has made a sex-methods pun on "vanilla" yet? Even with "French" vanilla up there?

... what the hell board is this?

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 25 August 2003 02:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Maggots eating Jim Morrison's body is a pretty sexual image, actually.

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 25 August 2003 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

can we get them to eat his poetry, too?

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 25 August 2003 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

also his fans?

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 25 August 2003 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Amazing how we got from French Vanilla to maggots eating Jim Morrison. Ah, the slide....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 25 August 2003 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i prefer "vanilla bean" to "vanilla" or "french vanilla"... crazy huh?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

see, coffee + flavoured something else, that's a different story

especially when that "flavoured something else" is boozular

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

In Canada, French Vanilla is a slang term for when a lady does something to a man with her mouth and then surprises the guy by kissing him and depositing that which he had deposited into her mouth into his mouth.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

It is?!

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

no, I just made that up. but I guess it is now.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Horace, you rock.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I know, Canada suddenly seemed a whole lot cooler until Kim had to ruin it for everyone.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm here to protect and serve, dammit.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

But isn't it our Canuck duty to dupe the Americans at every opportunity? I think it's in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

That's called something else dude! What did she call that...?

*horrible memory of extremely-strange-surprise returns*

ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH argh argh argh a....

Okay, I'm okay now.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Snowballing?

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, so it's still a Canadian thing...

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

But calling it French Vanilla makes it sound desirable

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

What is the difference between "French Vanilla" and Vanilla?
Point a finger at French Vanilla in a threatening manner and it immediately puts up its hands and surrenders.
Normal vanilla wouldn't
< /CLICHE JOKE>

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

shut up, Custos, that's stupid and ignorant, and even more so since you seem to know it

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyway everybody knows the real answer is that they're exactly the same in every detail, except that French Vanilla is better.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm embarrassed ordering "french vannila" b/c it sounds fancy. but i do like it better.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

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