white supremacy has taken more from you than you could ever imagine

[RAX 010]

Umm Power to the people
Bean Pie my brothers?
:badbron:

 

[Fillerguy]

Edmond Albius had a rough life that amounted to "nothing" considering his impact on the world

 

[Bondye Vodou]

that real natural sugar-cane taste so good. Use to eat that as a lil one

 

[KeysT]

When Vanilla Was Brown And How We Came To See It As White
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So how did folks learn to cultivate the plants? Well, slavery.

The year was 1841. Edmond Albius, a 12-year-old French-owned black slave from the Bourbon Islands, figured out what other botanists had tried to do for centuries. Albius discovered that the vanilla plant could be pollinated by hand using a blade of grass or a swipe of a thumb. It was effective and labor-intensive, but once folks figured out how to pollinate the plants, vanilla as a flavor became more accessible.

His discovery prompted French botanist Jean Michel Claude Richard to the technique years earlier, and some of the French press would later claim that Albius was white. ( acknowledges that Albius was a black slave, and also says his master had him study botany.) Albius was eventually freed when slavery was abolished in 1848, and he died in poverty. But the hand-pollinating technique he created is still used on vanilla plants today, which is one of the reasons why pure vanilla flavor is still so expensive.

Given its incredibly dark and fascinating history, it's kind of amazing that of all things, vanilla has become a metaphor for blandness.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch...npr&utm_campaign=nprnews&utm_content=03232014

Black Excellence....thats about all I picked up from this article...

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

And you. I'll give you all the space you need between my sheets and my cheeks.

 

[88m3]

Oops, for whatever reason didn't receive the notification that you quoted me...anyway...I personnaly couldn't care less about what color vanilla is, maybe because I already knew that it's not white originally...it's processed, so obviously it's gonna look/taste different...like cocoa and chocolate...but if this "white conspiracy" were so powerful, why are chocolate and coffee, both much more widespread than vanilla, not also "whitened"? I mean I think there are bigger fights to be fought lol

I was referring to this, blurb. It's a half serious thread, I'd say there are bigger fish to fry as well..

The year was 1841. Edmond Albius, a 12-year-old French-owned black slave from the Bourbon Islands, figured out what other botanists had tried to do for centuries. Albius discovered that the vanilla plant could be pollinated by hand using a blade of grass or a swipe of a thumb. It was effective and labor-intensive, but once folks figured out how to pollinate the plants, vanilla as a flavor became more accessible.

His discovery prompted French botanist Jean Michel Claude Richard to the technique years earlier, and some of the French press would later claim that Albius was white. ( acknowledges that Albius was a black slave, and also says his master had him study botany.) Albius was eventually freed when slavery was abolished in 1848, and he died in poverty. But the hand-pollinating technique he created is still used on vanilla plants today, which is one of the reasons why pure vanilla flavor is still so expensive.

Given its incredibly dark and fascinating history, it's kind of amazing that of all things, vanilla has become a metaphor for blandness.

 

[yoyoyo1]

I've notice that most people here seem to be happy being complete caricatures with little more than two dimensions to their character, and whoever runs this wacko circus encourages it. These little heads might be funny if so many puppets here didn't use them in place of having any working vocabulary.

woof.

 

[yoyoyo1]

I've notice that most people here seem to be happy being complete caricatures with little more than two dimensions to their character, and whoever runs this wacko circus encourages it. These little heads might be funny if so many puppets here didn't use them in place of having any working vocabulary.

you're gonna be a great poster here thinking like that, it's legitimately fun! welcome!

 

[mbewane]

I was referring to this, blurb. It's a half serious thread, I'd say there are bigger fish to fry as well..
The year was 1841. Edmond Albius, a 12-year-old French-owned black slave from the Bourbon Islands, figured out what other botanists had tried to do for centuries. Albius discovered that the vanilla plant could be pollinated by hand using a blade of grass or a swipe of a thumb. It was effective and labor-intensive, but once folks figured out how to pollinate the plants, vanilla as a flavor became more accessible.

His discovery prompted French botanist Jean Michel Claude Richard to the technique years earlier, and some of the French press would later claim that Albius was white. ( acknowledges that Albius was a black slave, and also says his master had him study botany.) Albius was eventually freed when slavery was abolished in 1848, and he died in poverty. But the hand-pollinating technique he created is still used on vanilla plants today, which is one of the reasons why pure vanilla flavor is still so expensive.

Given its incredibly dark and fascinating history, it's kind of amazing that of all things, vanilla has become a metaphor for blandness.

Oh yeah right, well what's to be expected from slave masters anyway...

And the whole "vanilla being a metaphor for blandness", I have no idea, to my knowledge vanilla isn't a metaphor for anything in French (or Italian or Dutch for that matter), it's just a flavour

 

[Dr. Sebi Jr.]

@HebrewAllahTripleDarkness is that you breh?

That fool appears to be an agent of the CACspiracy.

 

[dontspeakmuch]

Then please, drink a tall glass of brown water & enjoy your skin-deep narcissism.

i wouldnt drink brown or white water if i were you.