Amy Glover is a lifestyle writer for HuffPost UK who covers everything from food and drink to health, fitness, and random trivia (the odder the better). She previously worked as a shopping and entertainment writer for BuzzFeed UK.
either. They’re “sweated” and exposed to the sun for 10 days before being placed on trays, graded, and cured for months; vanilla extract is made by drawing the flavour out with booze.
So it shouldn’t have surprised me as much as it did to learn that the name itself has a far-from-dull origin.You read that right ― the flavoursome pods’ name comes from the same root as “vagina.” the word is “borrowed from New Latin, borrowed from Spanish vainilla...the vanilla plant and fruit, diminutive of vaina ‘sheath, pod,’ going back to Latin vāgīna ‘scabbard, sheath.’”As the dictionary points out, the Latin vāgīna didn’t mean what our modern version does, but it’s a root for both the body part and vanilla.
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