{"id":38067,"date":"2017-04-22T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38067"},"modified":"2017-04-12T10:53:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:53:25","slug":"qotd-vanilla-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/04\/22\/qotd-vanilla-isnt\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Vanilla isn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One last, minor thing: Vanilla is a deeply rich flavor that has unfairly become shorthand for boring, basic, and sexually unadventurous. Merriam-Webster\u2019s second definition includes the sad phrase \u201clacking distinction\u201d to explain the term \u201cvanilla.\u201d I\u2019m not arguing that we drop this secondary use of the word \u2014 we\u2019re too far gone for that \u2014 but I do want to remind people that vanilla is actually an extraordinarily complex flavor. Chocolate is far more vanilla than vanilla.<\/p>\n<p>Caitlin PenzeyMoog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/salt-grinders-are-bullshit-and-other-lessons-growi-253193\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Salt grinders are bullshit, and other lessons from growing up in the spice trade&#8221;, <em>The A.V. Club<\/em><\/a>, 2017-04-06.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One last, minor thing: Vanilla is a deeply rich flavor that has unfairly become shorthand for boring, basic, and sexually unadventurous. Merriam-Webster\u2019s second definition includes the sad phrase \u201clacking distinction\u201d to explain the term \u201cvanilla.\u201d I\u2019m not arguing that we drop this secondary use of the word \u2014 we\u2019re too far gone for that \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,66,41,16],"tags":[872,347],"class_list":["post-38067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health-science","category-quotations","category-science","tag-chemistry","tag-debunking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9TZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38068,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38067\/revisions\/38068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}