the worst tasting licorice mind you...lolThat looks like it taste like Black Licorice.
Real vanilla is black.
Yes I would try it.
The bean pod is brown, but the vanilla seeds that are inside are in fact black. Both the pods and the seed can be used for flavoring, but the most intense flavor comes from the seeds. Look not further than "real vanilla ice-cream" for proof... Yup the black speck are the vanilla seeds.Vanilla is not black, it's brown. They did not "turn" vanilla ice cream white. grab a glass of milk. then, grab a bottle of vanilla extract and see how much you'd have to add to turn that milk any darker than ice cream white. you can do it, but you'd get drunk/sick from the amount of vanilla you'd have to add and the taste would be overpowering. you never see a recipe that calls for any more than 1tsp or so.
if vanilla is some other color, they've made it that way by using food coloring, natural or otherwise.
the worst tasting licorice mind you...lol

you sound knowledgeable and you might know better than me, but i've always understood that black doesn't really exist save for the absence of light. things that we call "black", black cats, black hair, are actually dark brown. have i been misunderstanding..??The bean pod is brown, but the vanilla seeds that are inside are in fact black. Both the pods and the seed can be used for flavoring, but the most intense flavor comes from the seeds. Look not further than "real vanilla ice-cream" for proof... Yup the black speck are the vanilla seeds.
This pic here scared me more than the ice cream
What that mouth do?