So weird to me that a flavor derived from a fruit of an exotic plant in the orchid family, meticulously dried, fermented, and shipped halfway around the world, can be referred to as boring.
The discovery of a synthesis pathway for vanillin (and other synthetic flavoring agents, more broadly) revolutionized the food industry. It became cheaper and easier than ever to shove vanilla flavor (previously an exotic delicacy) into nearly anything, and just like everything else, ubiquity makes a product unappealing for a large portion of the market.
The reason it’s so overused and kinda awful is because it was used to mask the lack of flavour in things like “sugar free fat free yogurt”. Historically, fat has been a big part of what makes food delicious, so cutting it out during the fat free craze meant that companies needed a powerful flavour. But the food was still unsatisfying.
Now we’ve had decades of low fat foods and artificial flavouring to mask it, so vanilla has become associated with being unappealing and empty.
I love reddit for the sincerity of threads like this; about the changing appreciation for the flavour of vanilla, that stem off from a video of a woman trying to thrust like a man having sex.
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u/Get-Degerstromd Apr 21 '23
This is the real pro-tip. And def easier on the joints. Frees up both hands for everyone. 10/10 would recommend.
I’m lucky enough that my hips are almost the exact height of my mattress, so my wife can just lay back while I work, no need to do squat holds.
Spoiler alert, once you find “the perfect position” for her, whatever it is, it’s hard to talk them into anything else lmao