You can interpret that to mean something familiar, bordering on boring. Or you can take a cue from beverage companies. Of course, these latter-day vanilla cream sodas cost much more than the nickel or dime charged way back when.
Vanilla can be expensive.
Only three of the five brands of soda we tasted listed real vanilla as an ingredient. But that alone did not give any brand an edge. And tasters said some brands that listed vanilla separately had a brute chemical edge that left them feeling nostalgic for plain seltzer. We averaged the scores and ranked the top three accordingly. Tasters found the top brands were fun to sip and had some of the signature notes of real vanilla, whose origins as the seed pod of an orchid cultivated in far-off tropical lands are far from boring.