maybe pretty much always means no

riddle me this darling ones, what in the hell is the difference between vanilla and new york vanilla?

i heard the same commercial on the radio about 384 times this morning talking about some sale on ice cream where you can get a gallon of vanilla or new york vanilla for like 48 cents or something. so really, what’s the difference?

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11 Comments

  1. Carol 10.May.02 at 9:44 am

    I have never heard of New York Vanilla. And I live here.

  2. paul 10.May.02 at 9:52 am

    i think vanilla and french vanilla tend to be sweeter ice cream and made with a thinner batter, where as new york vanilla starts with a thicker, less sweet batter. more like a custard with eggs.

  3. Wendy 10.May.02 at 9:53 am

    For 48 cents a gallon, I don’t care what kind of ice cream it is. 🙂

  4. jodi 10.May.02 at 9:56 am

    ok, i might have made that 48 cents thing up

  5. andrea 10.May.02 at 11:51 am

    when my sister was little, she called all vanilla ice cream “new york ice cream”

    new york vanilla is always more yellowish and richer than regular vanilla. i think paul could be onto something with the eggs thing.

  6. alan 10.May.02 at 1:37 pm

    so now there are four types of vanilla?!
    i’ve never even heard of NY vanilla

  7. heather 10.May.02 at 1:51 pm

    vanilla, french vanilla and new york vanilla… which is the fourth?

  8. Ed 10.May.02 at 2:06 pm

    The fourth is Vanilla Bean, where there’s little dark bits of the bean in the ice cream. The bits look like coffee grounds, but have a much smoother texture. Dryers brand makes the definitive example… imho.

  9. pixie 10.May.02 at 3:48 pm

    here in ny (where, incidenally, i have never heard of “ny vanilla”), we have three kinds of vanilla. vanilla, french vanilla, and philadelphia vanilla. the difference i thought was that philadelphia vanilla is mostly white and has bitty vanilla bean black specks (yum) while regular vanilla is just, ya know, regular and french vanilla is yellowish.

    i like philadelphia vanilla best. has anyone else ever heard of it?

  10. KoolKeith 11.May.02 at 6:29 pm

    I’ve never heard of philadelphia vanilla or new york vanilla and I live in NY and grew up in Philly. weird. I gotta eat more ice cream.

  11. jess 21.Feb.03 at 3:44 pm

    i grew up eating new york vanilla, Kemps sells it – they service the midwest and the southern u.s., but not the coasts or new york. i live in california now and would love to find another company that sells it – know of any?