[Artemis Webb]

Uh huh...
and you can make butter from plants!
And meat from plants!
And milk from almonds or soy beans or oats!
…
Suckers!

[SkyDancer]

Nah, dark espresso chocolate is the way to go; if not, then sea salt caramel is a good second.

[Lockbox]

Look in Nancy’s freezer, that where it’s hidden.

[cherry]

I guess I’ll have to raid the Dollar Store again..

[FrdmLvr]

I’ve heard Bakers imitation vanilla is nearly as good as real vanilla, and at 98 cents for a large bottle on Amazon, I think I might go that route for baking if vanilla goes up precipitously due to this shortage.

[jeffc]

I remember the coffee “shortage”. The 10 cent cup of joe died. When there was no longer a “shortage”, coffee prices never did come down. Probably vanilla’s turn now...

[seowulf]

Beaver anal secretions used as vanilla substitute

https://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/stories/beaver-anal-secretions-used-as-vanilla-substitute

I guess we’re down to squeezing beaver butts for our ice cream.

[Berlin_Freeper]

I like dark rum, dark chocolate and dark women.

But I am an alcoholic who doesn’t drink alcohol,
a diabetic who doesn’t eat chocolate
and I am married to a German...

So there is that.

[Chickensoup]

So there is actually enough vanilla but some of it is from exploited labor so one should make a phoney vanila instead. It wont taste as good, it will be the TOFU of vanialla, good when you dont have the real thing.

[Tax-chick]

I’m happy with artificial vanilla flavoring, but it has been weirdly expensive recently.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I thought a hurricane (typhoon)? devastated Madagascar two or three years ago, wiping out the crop AND the trees.

I was told that’s why natural vanilla is so expensive.

In Sam’s Club last year, we had to ask an associate to get us a bottle. If they left it on the shelf, it was shoplifted.

[Texan5]

Sounds like it will be just like tofu product masquerading as meat or cheese-or margarine calling itself “plant butter”-just another imitation of a natural product that is inferior to the real thing. I’ve never bought vanilla that came from anywhere but Mexico-delicious...

[Macoozie]

Foodies learned about this coming pockey-clips a few years ago.

Do without and dream about scraping those tiny flecs out of dark brown pods, instead of trying the “vanilla flavouring” in the big bottle on the other shelf with the real low price.

You will thank me.

It is so very gross. Not even usable for a dash into oatmeal.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Natural Vanilla comes from the vanilla bean. Anything else is artificial vanilla flavoring. And it is all over the place.

[Scrambler Bob]

The world facing a natural vanilla shortage?

= = =

Mayor Ray Nagin on Tuesday apologized for urging residents to rebuild a “chocolate New Orleans”

Remember?

[PrincessB]

Vanilla replaced rose water as a flavor enhancer in the US and many places in Europe. Rosewater is much cheaper and far more sustainable. It’s a slightly different flavor, but still good in ice creams, frostings, some cookies and cakes it’s a fail in chocolate chips). I love discussing this as well as “the fair trade/colonial” practices with any SJW who brags about using Madagascar vanilla

[IronJack]

I’ve never thought of vanilla as a spice. More of a flavoring. But maybe that’s just a matter of semantics.

[piasa]

Make vanilla illegal and the drug smugglers will figure out how to mass produce those orchid beans.

[Bommer]

[catnipman]

here’s a working link:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/igorbosilkovski/2020/04/15/the-world-is-facing-a-natural-vanilla-shortage-this-guy-says-he-will-fix-that-by-producing-vanilla-from-corn-fiber/#77131ef2763e