#trivia
A buddy asked me to bring him from Mexico. Not chocolate, mezcal, hot sauce. But "a couple of small bottles of _____ cos Mexico is where they mostly make it from beans. 99% elsewhere is chemically processed."
What ubiquitous product?
One of the most expensive food items.
A buddy asked me to bring him from Mexico. Not chocolate, mezcal, hot sauce. But "a couple of small bottles of _____ cos Mexico is where they mostly make it from beans. 99% elsewhere is chemically processed."
What ubiquitous product?
One of the most expensive food items.
This is a product that is available in probably every grocery store in the world! It is everywhere around us, especially in desserts. But its source plant (from Mexico) takes a LOT of labor to grow. So its chemically synthesized flavor is what most of us taste through our lives.
Yes, indeed!
A big TIL in Mexico for me was that
a. Vanilla is originally from Mexico
b. I had probably never actually tasted "real" vanilla in my life.
Real vanilla costs like $600/kg! I was a little shook at how much the bottles cost lol.
A big TIL in Mexico for me was that
a. Vanilla is originally from Mexico
b. I had probably never actually tasted "real" vanilla in my life.
Real vanilla costs like $600/kg! I was a little shook at how much the bottles cost lol.
https://twitter.com/tajmahalfoxtrot/status/1618197293517402112?t=ovtGCJlCeZRVj6dbCD5YLA&s=19
Growing vanilla is an extremely tedious process that can't be automated. You have to masturbate the plants, hehe.
Like literally, vanilla has to be hand pollinated, with thumbs and forefingers bringing the male female parts of the flower together. We are how it reproduces!
Like literally, vanilla has to be hand pollinated, with thumbs and forefingers bringing the male female parts of the flower together. We are how it reproduces!
Also the "chocolate and vanilla" partnership pre-dates ice cream culture by millennia! In fact chocolate & vanilla first came together in a world that had no milk and no processed sugar.
Xocolatl, the ancient Mayan drink, was made of chocolate and vanilla. And chilies!
Xocolatl, the ancient Mayan drink, was made of chocolate and vanilla. And chilies!
Growing actual vanilla beans is such a delicate and expensive process. How then does vanilla get used in like 15,000 different products around the world and is available in some form in every single grocery store in the world?
Chemistry! It's lab made vanilla.
Chemistry! It's lab made vanilla.
That's why when I ate vanilla ice cream in Mexico, I seriously did a double take. As did @k_rupal. Like wait...THIS is how real vanilla tastes? Whoa! What am I even... Whoa... Yeah, it is vanilla but it is also so much more!
Mexicans invented everything tasty!
Mexicans invented everything tasty!
It's crazy to think that people were having chocolate and vanilla for 2000 years without any milk or sugar involved. And now 99% chocolate or vanilla is consumed with milk and sugar.
"Funny story for your followers. I went to a small market in CdMX and asked for "vanilla" and they looked confused. So I described it in my broken Spanish and they were like ahhh bainiyaa! These double L's eh?"
Yeah, also it's spelled Vainilla in Spanish not Vanilla.
Yeah, also it's spelled Vainilla in Spanish not Vanilla.
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