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Old 06-02-2007, 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by mountainfrog View Post
I have never seen harvested vanilla pods in this country and it would not surprise me if methyl and ethyl vanillin was imported in 55-gallon-drums to fill it into small bottles for the tourists...

Good vanilla pods (Bourbon) are very expensive and its extract as well.

m'frog
I agree with you. Vanilla extract, the real kind, is very expensive. And very strong. I would be surprised if there is vanilla at all in those bottles of Dominican 'vanilla'.
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