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Queen Elizabeth I was a vanillaholic!
In the last year of her life she wouldn't eat any food that wasn't flavoured with it. FYI Lizzy I ... Spinach and vanilla shouldn't be mixed.
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My Name is Queen Elizabeth and I am a Vanillaholic
Posted by Marie Reed at 9:46 AM
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17 cool cats commented:
I do not know why she did this but I love vanilla, too, in cookies and in winter as perfumed candles.
Say, are you afraid of Gollum and his friends? Sometimes I walk through the streets and wonder how many helpful suggestions for Hollywood's creatures decorate our wells or houses in Vienna... :)
Oh but who could blame her for such an addiction?
Everything flavored with it? Hmmmm..I love vanilla, but can think of a lot of foods that wouldn't be complimented very well with it! LOL!
That is odd. She probably started a huge fad with her obsession!
hello marie!
I'm coming up with an idea!
If you feel like it, can you exchange some postcards each other?
It looks like Liz is holding a boquet of Hanes sweat socks.
My kids would totally do the vanilla spinach thing. As long as it had ketchup on it too.
yuk...but i do adore her face, she was so unusual. hugs.
its my first visit...and me and the Queen have a little in common, but only in coffee! i am a hazelnut-a-holic. love it in my coffee...and candles...and car scents. yum.
Vanilla .. smooth .. but why not w/spinach?
:-Daryl
Ah, but she needed a little sweetening though, didn't she...
I can't imagine eating everything flavored with vanilla. Did she have a very restricted diet that last year? Maybe no meat or vegetables?
This was probably one of those fatal, genetic mental conditions afflicting the British royalty. I do, however, identify with her, except my flavor would be chocolate. There are some evenings when I just need a good dose of chocolate, and more chocolate.
Ya. I love vanilla ice-cream & cake. But wouldn't it very weird it everything is in vanila flavour.
Interesting! I love the scent and taste of vanilla - but I often use Grand Marnier as the flavoring agent instead of vanilla. I wouldn't like either of them on everything - although Grand Marnier might taste just a bit better on the spinach....
Vanilla is a wonderful spice. Simple vanilla ice cream flavored with amarena sherries, chocolate maybe. Not sure abut vanilla on a steak, though. ;)
Ah, Marie - a spinach-vanilla milkshake would be JUST the thing for you!
"Louis" added a link to this blog at his. (He has a link to St. Fargeau there already.)
Yet another interesting fact about Queen EI that I hadn't yet digested. I did know that she had a tremendous sweet tooth and devoured sweets constantly. Sadly, her desire for sugar resulted in rotted/missing teeth - and Elizabeth ended up stuffing her mouth with rags to fill out her cheeks when receiving guests at court. Poor Elizabeth, I bet she didn't floss either...Marie!
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