“Vanilla”, for some reason, has come to mean “plain” in English. That is a specific linguistic quirk. It doesn’t exist in my native language, and not coincidentally no-one who I share this native language with would think to give me shit because my favorite ice cream flavor is vanilla, because it’d be just as nonsensical and out of the left field as making fun of someone for preferring chocolate flavor.
Although salt has a flavor, it’s more so a flavor enhancer because of the positively charged properties of the sodium after dissociation. So, it’s pretty fair to call it plain given the myriad of options, and that potatoes are trash without it.
So is chocolate, yet no one complains about it.
“Vanilla”, for some reason, has come to mean “plain” in English. That is a specific linguistic quirk. It doesn’t exist in my native language, and not coincidentally no-one who I share this native language with would think to give me shit because my favorite ice cream flavor is vanilla, because it’d be just as nonsensical and out of the left field as making fun of someone for preferring chocolate flavor.
Same thing happened to salt. Things like potato chips flavoured with salt are considered plain.
Although salt has a flavor, it’s more so a flavor enhancer because of the positively charged properties of the sodium after dissociation. So, it’s pretty fair to call it plain given the myriad of options, and that potatoes are trash without it.
They’re trash without it because they are actually plain without it.
Meanwhile salt and vinegar are the best flavour combination and will burn a hole in your mouth because you ate too much.
Worth it tho.