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Vanilla is not vanilla in Japan



Vanilla is not vanilla in Japan

Vanilla is usually the last flavor I pick, but in Japan, it’s anything but plain. These are my two favorite vanilla ice creams. First, the Choco Monica Jumbo. Just look at the size of it. A crisp wafer shell filled with vanilla ice cream sealed inside with a thin snap of chocolate. It’s been around for decades, and it’s available at convenience stores for under $1.50. And then there’s Crema. Available only at select shops and cafes and costs between $3 and $5. Made with Hokkaido fresh cream. It’s rich and silky and swirled into a buttery long dasha cone. It tastes like pure luxury. Two vanilla ice creams, one humble, one extravagant.

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24 Comments

  1. @tripamour

    **Quick note: when I see white ice cream, I think ‘vanilla’. Not vanilla bean with specks, but a plain white ice cream base (which might be sweet cream, fior di latte, or even clotted cream). The title ‘not vanilla’ was a reference to the term to mean unexciting.

    Taste is subjective — if you’ve tried these and loved them, or not, that’s fair. Just sharing two ice creams that I genuinely enjoyed.

    https://www.nissei-com.co.jp/cremia/en/

  2. @blueeyeswhitedrawing

    People have the audacity to equate vanilla with “plain”. The fruit of a delicate orchid pollinated by hand. Worth its weight in solid gold and beyond. The fussy black-and-cream jewel of the American continent. You sick son a bicycle. Imagine a world without vanilla. No blondies, no pound cakes, no crème brûlée, no coke floats, no cream soda, no sanity New York-style cheesecakes, no warm apple pie à la mode, no velvety complexity to bring out complex notes in chocolate desserts, no depth of flavour in your cakes and cookies and milkshakes. All in just a few precious seeds or grams of paste of perfumed teaspoons of liquid black platinum. What you don't understand could fill the library of Alexandria seven times over and then some. You ungrateful bastard i'm going to find you.

  3. @lolalam7326

    I do believe that people calling vanilla as plain is because they never taste any real vanilla product or food

  8. @Basteal

    That creamy cone just looks like McDonalds Ice cream.

    Which is amazing because McDonalds Ice Cream is so damn good, and has such great texture, that it destroys the machines that dispense it several times each day.