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Re:The Incompatible Food Triad by Retric on Sunday December 18, 2016 @02:48PM (#13207242)
Salt is an ingredient in pasta, mixing extra salt and pasta quickly makes it unpalatable. Adding vanilla extract to chocolate ice cream is similarly nasty. Now sure, a hint where it's hard to tell in full chocolate or less chocolate, less vanilla and less cream to make that more bland helps. As does mixing some milk etc. But the full flavors don't mix well.
Re:The Incompatible Food Triad by tgb on Monday December 19, 2016 @12:15PM (#13212971)
No one is disputing that it's possible to add too much vanilla to your ice cream recipe.

Please just try this experiment: take a scoop of chocolate and a scoop of vanilla ice creams and mix them together and eat it. Is it unpalatably overly vanilla? No, of course not, it tastes like mildly chocolatey ice cream. Which is to say, it's pretty good.

I'll admit that I'm interested in what contortions you can come up with next to keep justifying this. I'm greatly amused by this conversation.

Re:The Incompatible Food Triad by Retric on Monday December 19, 2016 @08:45PM (#13216651)
I have done this with high quality aka strong vanilla ice cream with that real creamy taste and high quality aka strong chocolate ice cream and no it was not tasty.

You can try the same thing what cheaper ingredients by adding the same fairly large quantity of vanilla extract to unflavored ice cream and chocolate ice cream. But, you miss out on some of that strong cream flavor.

PS: Even just good chocolate is hard to find in the US. Hint it has zero wax content and a short shelf life.

Re:The Incompatible Food Triad by tgb on Monday December 19, 2016 @09:51PM (#13217038)
Ah, so if I try this, it won't count because it's No True Icecream.

On the other hand, I commend you on being completely consistent and somehow going through with this conversation without a hint of sarcasm, snark or anything other than a deep passion for the subject. More than I can say for myself. But I'll still hold this as perhaps the most surreal exchange I've ever had and can't quite remove the feeling that this was a masterfully executed joke.