You could knock me over with a feather.

I picked up some in the grocery store and when I got it home, I was
surprised to notice on the front label, a statement "contains natural
vanilla." I thought I had picked up a new variety (like vanilla Coke)
and was irritated that it wasn't placed where I could notice it when I
bought it. So I called the company to complain and was told that it
always had vanilla (but not enough to reduce the amount needed for
recipes) and it was a marketing decision to put it on the front label.
I checked an old bottle and sure enough, it had vanilla in the list of
ingredients.

Now you know. (If you didn't before.)
Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Curly Sue wrote:
> You could knock me over with a feather.
>
> I picked up some in the grocery store and when I got it home, I was
> surprised to notice on the front label, a statement "contains natural
> vanilla." I thought I had picked up a new variety (like vanilla Coke)
> and was irritated that it wasn't placed where I could notice it when I
> bought it. So I called the company to complain and was told that it
> always had vanilla (but not enough to reduce the amount needed for
> recipes) and it was a marketing decision to put it on the front label.
> I checked an old bottle and sure enough, it had vanilla in the list of
> ingredients.
>
> Now you know. (If you didn't before.)
> Sue(tm)
> Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Same as "New and improved"....which roughly translated means "we
weren't selling enough of this stuff, so lets just change the
label/packaging to move it off the shelves"

Cheers
Cathy(xyz)

"Curly Sue" > wrote in message
...
> You could knock me over with a feather.
>
> I picked up some in the grocery store and when I got it home, I was
> surprised to notice on the front label, a statement "contains natural
> vanilla." I thought I had picked up a new variety (like vanilla Coke)
> and was irritated that it wasn't placed where I could notice it when I
> bought it. So I called the company to complain and was told that it
> always had vanilla (but not enough to reduce the amount needed for
> recipes) and it was a marketing decision to put it on the front label.
> I checked an old bottle and sure enough, it had vanilla in the list of
> ingredients.
>
> Now you know. (If you didn't before.)
> Sue(tm)
> Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

How many times in the past had you used the product successfully, without
knowing it had vanilla in it?

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:02:29 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
> wrote:

>
>"Curly Sue" > wrote in message
...
>> You could knock me over with a feather.
>>
>> I picked up some in the grocery store and when I got it home, I was
>> surprised to notice on the front label, a statement "contains natural
>> vanilla." I thought I had picked up a new variety (like vanilla Coke)
>> and was irritated that it wasn't placed where I could notice it when I
>> bought it. So I called the company to complain and was told that it
>> always had vanilla (but not enough to reduce the amount needed for
>> recipes) and it was a marketing decision to put it on the front label.
>> I checked an old bottle and sure enough, it had vanilla in the list of
>> ingredients.
>>
>> Now you know. (If you didn't before.)
>
>How many times in the past had you used the product successfully, without
>knowing it had vanilla in it?
>

Every time, apparently. Perhaps if they had written "still contains
vanilla" I wouldn't have thought I got the wrong item. Or even
better, just left "vanilla" in the ingredients list so I wouldn't have
thought I brought home vanilla syrup.

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Name any situation in which a small addition of vanilla would be a bad
thing.

--Blair
"I can't..."

On 21 Feb 2006 11:18:09 -0800, "Blair P. Houghton"
> wrote:

>Name any situation in which a small addition of vanilla would be a bad
>thing.
>

Diet Coke. Bleah.

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Curly Sue wrote on 21 Feb 2006 in rec.food.cooking

> On 21 Feb 2006 11:18:09 -0800, "Blair P. Houghton"
> > wrote:
>
> >Name any situation in which a small addition of vanilla would be a bad
> >thing.
> >
>
> Diet Coke. Bleah.
>
> Sue(tm)
> Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!
>

chicken fried steak, pepperoni pizza just to name two.

meatloaf, french cut green beans, mac and cheese to just name three more.

--
-Alan