The argument goes something like this: Why would you have vanilla ice cream when you could have chocolate ice cream or fruit ...

Vanilla beans (bottom) can be used to flavor ice cream or as vanilla extract ... years for a plant to start producing flowers and the fruit (the vanilla beans) have to stay on the vine for ...

Along with using hot fudge, caramel sauce, or Tajín to spice up your next bowl of vanilla ice cream, transforming this ...