I was just reading an article from one of my recipe sites, Spiced. The recipe was Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream and the author was writing about his favorite ice cream flavor being vanilla, but why wasn't there a vanilla syrup for chocolate ice cream like there is chocolate syrup for vanilla?
Well, I've never used it for ice cream, but there IS such a thing as vanilla syrup and I started to reply and say so...but I didn't want to be one of those insufferable people who feel the need to point things like that out to others.
I mean, I don't want to be one of those people any longer; I'm working on that, honest.
I've seen vanilla syrup in grocery stores, usually in the coffee aisle, right there with the powdered flavorings and creamers and the liquid form is in the milk section along with the other perishable items that need to be refrigerated. A quick search online shows that you can make it yourself, or buy it from Walmart or Amazon. I've never made a simple syrup w/ vanilla, but it sounds easy enough and the closest to an ice cream syrup; personally, I've never cared for the coffee flavorings - they just don't taste very good and leave an aftertaste.
Back in grade school, I fell in love with a girl who sat right next to me. I was far too young to be physically attracted to her, but there was *something* about her that drew me to her. I finally worked up the courage to tell her she really, really smelled good and she told me her mother wouldn't let her wear perfume, so she dabbed a little bit of vanilla extract behind her ears.
That was when I learned a life lesson; boys are either hungry or horny, one or the other, all the time...just not both at the same time.
Maybe that's what I need to do; create a perfume that smells like baked goods. Oh wait, they already have.
Anyway...something caught my eye on the Amazon listing:
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Well, I've never used it for ice cream, but there IS such a thing as vanilla syrup and I started to reply and say so...but I didn't want to be one of those insufferable people who feel the need to point things like that out to others.
I mean, I don't want to be one of those people any longer; I'm working on that, honest.
I've seen vanilla syrup in grocery stores, usually in the coffee aisle, right there with the powdered flavorings and creamers and the liquid form is in the milk section along with the other perishable items that need to be refrigerated. A quick search online shows that you can make it yourself, or buy it from Walmart or Amazon. I've never made a simple syrup w/ vanilla, but it sounds easy enough and the closest to an ice cream syrup; personally, I've never cared for the coffee flavorings - they just don't taste very good and leave an aftertaste.
Back in grade school, I fell in love with a girl who sat right next to me. I was far too young to be physically attracted to her, but there was *something* about her that drew me to her. I finally worked up the courage to tell her she really, really smelled good and she told me her mother wouldn't let her wear perfume, so she dabbed a little bit of vanilla extract behind her ears.
That was when I learned a life lesson; boys are either hungry or horny, one or the other, all the time...just not both at the same time.
Maybe that's what I need to do; create a perfume that smells like baked goods. Oh wait, they already have.
Anyway...something caught my eye on the Amazon listing:
(click graphic for larger view)
4 comments:
'...but I didn't want to be one of those insufferable people who feel the need to point things like that out to others.'
Speaking for myself only of course, I appreciate you for pointing out aspects or views which I haven't considered, or haven't considered enough; I thought we called that "conversation".
Reading about the syrup, I had in my imagination, Hershey's syrup for ice cream, then began to wonder about something akin, some topping with the consistancy of that; like Hershey's Vanilla Sauce, with a pale yellow coloring.
When I purchase coffee from certain mini marts, I look for the hazelnut syrup, personally.
Mmm, mmm good.
I dunno, Mal. It's one thing to offer up a different viewpoint about something, but another to correct someone, esp.in their own blog or home. It's really being picayune if you said - for example - the SomeTown, OK. casino was built in 1997 and I say "No, it was built in '98!. What I'm trying to say is that I think some people correct others just to feel superior about themselves, esp. when it's some trivial bit of information like that.
Bad analogy, I guess, but it would be similar to the vanilla syrup thing. I'm with you though, I'd think the syrup would need to be thicker than coffee flavoring and maybe white or off-white coloring.
I'm not much on coffee flavorings; I used to drink what I called "candy coffee" w/ milk and sugar. I used real cream and half & half for a while until I started getting fat as a pig and figured out how many extra calories the dairy had.
I never was much on the powdered creamers, esp. after being out on the rig, putting some in a straw and holding a lighter up to the end and blowing...made a heckuva flamethrower.
A couple years ago, I switched to instant coffee; just got tired of getting heartburn with the brewed kind, might as well get it with an easier method. Then I discovered Death Wish coffee and now I don't want to drink anything else. Two cups and I'm wired for the day...the real reason I drink coffee, certainly not for the taste. It's really pricey, but since two cups has the same caffeine as an entire pot, it's about the same price/day for me. I also discovered French presses, which is really just as easy to use as a machine. THAT might be why I don't get heartburn from drinking coffee, too. Sure tastes good.
I've had the hazlenut creamer before, it's OK but I don't really care for flavors in my coffee other than chocolate for a coffee mocha. As I said, I don't put anything in my coffee these days.
LOL,,,
a hellaciously funny anecdote!
you the best.
I agree! I like coldstone sweet cremery so sweet. of curse it most likely is fatting as hec but......
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