David Tamarkin
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Yeah.
Then dried.
Yeah.
And that's when they become the black shriveled pods that we know and are obsessed with.
Yeah, to be fair, that is a lot of vanilla beans.
And I'm glad that we have a separate name for this artificial vanilla.
I pronounce it Vanillin.
So, and it's what gives, you know, gives...
vanilla-ish flavor and aroma to things.
So vanillin is a compound that is found naturally in vanilla beans, but the artificial version, of course, is made in a lab.
It's synthesized from guacol, an oil.
Made from petrochemicals.
Yeah.
And of course, it's much, much less expensive.
And that's relatively cheap.
Yeah.
I think vanillin, you know, artificial vanilla, vanilla essence, whatever you want to call it, has had an interesting journey through in the court of public opinion.
Yeah.
And I think it's a generational thing.
You know, I think, you know, previous generations to ours, probably like a lot of them, you know, uh,