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What is Vanilla ?! - 9/14/2014 6:10:44 PM

Hawkeye_BF

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Hi,

Iam really sorry but all of you have spoken about VANILLA. I cant find anything about a vanilla mod.
Where is it???

Thanks a lot

Hawkeye

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RE: What is Vanilla ?! - 9/14/2014 6:15:45 PM

Japhet

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The term "vanilla" refers to an unmoded game, in this case Distant Worlds without any mods.

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RE: What is Vanilla ?! - 9/14/2014 6:28:20 PM

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AHHHHH OK, thank you very much :))

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RE: What is Vanilla ?! - 10/10/2014 4:10:24 PM

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hope that help !
PS: oh gawd..."what is vanilla" internet never stop to surprise me lol

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RE: What is Vanilla ?! - 10/10/2014 6:57:47 PM

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It's called Vanilla because in the United States 'Vanilla Icecream' meant hydrogenated vegetable fat + cornstarch + fructose syrup and is white in color. So it meant a base product with nothing added.

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RE: What is Vanilla ?! - 10/10/2014 9:27:58 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Rahal

+ cornstarch + fructose syrup

conflict with

quote:

with nothing added

then

quote:

United States

failed at

quote:

Vanilla

lol

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RE: What is Vanilla ?! - 10/10/2014 10:41:42 PM

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Vanilla software, is a computer software which is not customized. The term comes from the traditional standard flavor of ice cream, vanilla flavor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_%28disambiguation%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology

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Ice cream fat is a fully refined, bleached, deodorized and hydrogenated vegetable oil.

http://www.cargillfoods.com

This usage began in the united states of the 1970s where 'vanilla icecream' was very white.

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RE: What is Vanilla ?! - 10/11/2014 12:44:57 AM

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ORIGINAL: Rahal

It's called Vanilla because in the United States 'Vanilla Icecream' meant hydrogenated vegetable fat + cornstarch + fructose syrup and is white in color. So it meant a base product with nothing added.

Also because a lot of people find vanilla ice cream to be bland and boring...

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RE: What is Vanilla ?! - 10/11/2014 2:19:38 PM

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Most people now use the word without thinking of ice cream at all...

Vanilla meaning basic - as in "plain vanilla" - comes from american processed food where you had a handful of flavors of 'icecream'. Why is that problematic? It's just how the word came to be used that way; the food was as you say "bland and boring", basically frozen margarine which could be colored and flavored.

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RE: What is Vanilla ?! - 10/11/2014 3:14:57 PM

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I can't believe that this old topic was brought up again with a discussion about american ice cream

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RE: What is Vanilla ?! - 10/11/2014 4:59:39 PM

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ORIGINAL: Japhet

I can't believe that this old topic was brought up again with a discussion about american ice cream

I can't believe I keep looking at this topic and not having a craving for vanilla ice cream.

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RE: What is Vanilla ?! - 10/11/2014 6:10:00 PM

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I had some today!

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RE: What is Vanilla ?! - 10/12/2014 12:59:46 PM

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maybe because summer is long gone.

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RE: What is Vanilla ?! - 10/12/2014 5:01:16 PM

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maybe because summer is long gone.

HAHA! That's funny. Where I live summer starts in March and lasts through December.

It's still getting up to 32-35C for temps right now.

And just to highlight it, I live in the Northern Hemisphere and have had to mow the yard in late December before.

Not very Vanilla at all...my summers.

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RE: What is Vanilla ?! - 10/12/2014 9:50:59 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Shark7

quote:

ORIGINAL: Mad Igor

maybe because summer is long gone.

HAHA! That's funny. Where I live summer starts in March and lasts through December. It's still getting up to 32-35C for temps right now.

And just to highlight it, I live in the Northern Hemisphere and have had to mow the yard in late December before.

Not very Vanilla at all...my summers.

Have a spare closet I can move in to?
Today the HIGH temp is all of 12C. Looking to be warmer this coming week, more like 15C highs...

Vanilla: plain, boring, bland - and then something Spicy like a mod comes along... Star Trek, Beyond Extended Universe, etc. and the universe is born anew.

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