Posted by Dave Thewlis on October 25, 2006 at 04:03:01 from 70.191.49.25 user dthewlis.
In Reply to: Re: Vanilla (Was ICE CREAM was...was... was... whatever... posted by Jock on October 24, 2006 at 12:50:21:
That is my understanding of "vanilla" as a colloquial term - unchanged or unmodified. It might imply "boring" but doesn't have to. I have no idea why "vanilla" came to mean this, but it could be that vanilla ice cream is so often used as the basis for adornment in sundaes, shakes, baked alaska, and other ice cream offerings.