The one with Mexican vanilla

Wed, Oct 08 2008 by Vanessa.

I don’t know why I love Mexican vanilla so much.  I can’t even remember the last time I purchased plain old American, probably McCormick, vanilla.  Was it 4 years ago?  Maybe 5?  Really, my recollection of regular American vanilla is probably so skewed right now because I haven’t had it in so long that my love for Mexican vanilla is unfounded.  Still I remember the first time my mom bought a bottle of Mexican vanilla.  I might have been 10 or so years old at the time.  That bottle lasted well into my college years, I’m sure.  So, when I took a trip across the border 4 or 5 years ago I just had to get a bottle of Mexican vanilla.

Our bus trip to Mexico was so much fun.   It only took a couple hours to get there from San Antonio and once we arrived we found out that it was an election week.  Little did we, the unknowing Americans, know that the Mexican government prohibits the sale of alcohol during election periods.  Words could never describe the outburst in the Mexican market when everyone found out that their trip for cheap alcohol stopped before it started!  Seriously, I think a small piece of the sky could have fallen to the ground beside us and no one would have looked twice.  Why bother when you can’t get cheap alcohol anyway and it already felt like the world was coming to an end!   Thankfully, my quest did not involve alcohol but Christmas presents instead.

During our excursion we came across Mexican vanilla and as mentioned earlier, my love for the stuff encouraged a purchase.  I bought a big old bottle for something like $2.00.  Tonight, while making Tapioca pudding I grabbed for my bottle of Mexican vanilla, removed the blue cap and took a sniff.  Mexican vanilla smells soooooo good!   The bad news … I only have about 1/6 of the bottle left.  I better start making plans to run down to Mexico in the next year or so to fill up again! 

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