Who put the “nil” in vanilla?
If I ruled the world, I’d ban using ‘vanilla’ to mean ‘plain’ (though I’d probably do a whole lot of other stuff first).
I once asked in a supermarket where the plain yoghurt was. She took me across the shop and said, “THERE’s vanilla yoghurt.” I said, “But I need PLAIN.” She said, “THAT’s vanilla, THERE,” and I said, “No, I need PLAIN.” She walked off.
Well, it’s all your fault – you and your misleading Hungarian phrase books.
Stop it or I’ll persuade your local supermarket that ‘strawberry’ means the flavour of a hovercraft full of eels …
Hungarian Phrase Book
