Posted on 05/08/2018 5:43:58 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
At nearly $800 per kilogram, vanilla now costs more than silver...
The primary reason for the price surge, however, is due to Cyclone Enawo, which hit the East African island nation in March 2017 decimating many of its plantations, commodities analyst Julian Gale told the BBC...
Today, more than 95 per cent of vanilla-flavoured foods don’t contain vanilla at all, but a synthetic flavouring called vanillin (commonly extracted from wood and sometimes petroleum)
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
I’ve gotten used to the fake Vanilla in my oatmeal or pancakes. The real Vanilla can be expensive. This is just for me, not a line of customers.
Oh!
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
In the land of ice and snows
Up among the Eskimos,
There’s a college known as Ogiwawa!
You should hear those college boys,
Gee, they make an awful noise
When they sing an Eskimo tra-la-la!
http://www.heptune.com/lyrics/iscreamy.html
“He took a dog-doo snowcone, and stuffed it in my right eye,
He took a dog-doo snowcone, and stuffed it in my other eye,
And the husky wee-wee (I mean the doggie wee-wee),
Has blinded me, and I can’t see (temporarily)…”
—————Frank Zappa—————————
Beaver butts emit goo used in vanilla flavored foods
“I lift up the animal’s tail,” Joanne Crawford, a wildlife ecologist at Southern Illinois University told National Geographic. “I’m like, ‘Get down there, and stick your nose near its bum.’”
“People think I’m nuts,” she added. “I tell them, ‘Oh, but it’s beavers; it smells really good.’”
A slow night...
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/10/02/beaver-butts-emit-goo-used-in-vanilla-flavored-foods.html
Do the beavers have to be deceased before the ‘goo’ is harvested? I know. Try not to visualize it.
“Today, more than 95 per cent of vanilla-flavoured foods don’t contain vanilla at all, but a synthetic flavouring called vanillin (commonly extracted from wood and sometimes petroleum)”
Author doesn’t know why vanillin is.
Hmmm...
Vanilla ice cream
or
Wood and Petroleum flavored ice cream.
Which one to choose? Decisions, decisions...
But getting a beaver to emit castoreum is not easy. Foodies are willing to “milk” the animals in order to get their hands on the gooey substance.
“You can milk the anal glands so you can extract the fluid,” Crawford said. “You can squirt [castoreum] out. It’s pretty gross.”
Only 292-pounds per year is collected because the milking method is unpleasant for all parties involved.
And the worst part? The FDA-approved castoreum is not required to be listed as an ingredient on food items. Manufacturers may list “natural flavoring” instead.
TMI...Dr. Bombay, need help right away!!
artificial vanilla (”Vanillin”) can be made from wood pulp by products. I used to work for a company that made it. Chemically, same stuff as the real.
Problem is, there is only one pulp mill in north america that has the type of waste stream that lends itself to vanillin.
The beaver visual leaves a very bad residue.
I still have a couple ounces of real vanilla extract left. Hopefully it will last me until the crops rebound.
Will Mike Rowe please pick up the brown courtesy phone ... Mike Rowe.
“Chemically, same stuff as the real.”
Except vanilla contains many more compounds.
“artificial vanilla (”Vanillin”) “
Vanillin is the main ingredient of (natural) vanilla.
You can save a few bucks with DIY vanilla extract.
Buy some of the beans, put in a jar, along with your favorite alcohol beverage (rum, vodka, bourbon, etc), and keep for a month or two. The longer the stronger.
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