• ALQ
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    487 months ago

    Saw this and sat for a second, thinking “okay, vanilla bean and soy bean…that’s only two. Milk isn’t a bean. What’s the third?”

    I’m an idiot.

    • @blueday
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      317 months ago

      Ditto! Coffee bean for anyone else still pondering.

      • @[email protected]
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        137 months ago

        I sipped on my coffee as I pondered the question and still couldn’t solve it. Work harder, coffee beans, work harder!

    • dadarobot
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      177 months ago

      Coffee and vanilla aren’t actually beans. Soy is though.

        • dadarobot
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          207 months ago

          A coffee bean is a seed from the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pip inside the red or purple fruit. This fruit is often referred to as a coffee cherry, and like the cherry, it is a fruit with a pip. Even though the coffee beans are not technically beans, they are referred to as such because of their resemblance to true beans.

          -wikipedia

        • @[email protected]
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          87 months ago

          OK I did my own search

          The coffee fruit, also known as a coffee cherry, houses the coffee seed within. This seed is what we commonly refer to as a coffee bean. However, botanically speaking, coffee is not a true bean but rather a seed.

  • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown
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    117 months ago

    A vanilla soy latte is not a 3 bean soup! There is only one bean actually in the soup. Unless you are scraping the vanilla pod into it and sprinkling grounds on top, the other two “beans” are merely extracts.

    It is a vegan bisque.

    • @[email protected]
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      87 months ago

      I agree with your premise, and here is some additional unsolicited information:

      Vanilla ‘beans’ technically are fruit from hand-pollinated orchids! So scraping a seed pod or using extract makes no difference. It’s never been a bean.

      Coffee ‘beans’ are seeds from the fruit of coffee trees and shrubs.

    • @nyctre
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      47 months ago

      Why juice more than soup? None of the fruits are squeezed. Except maybe soy, not sure how soy milk is made. Anyway, for vanilla and coffee it’s closer to tea than soup or juice. Also, closer to soup than juice as well, imo. Or broth if you wanna be specific. Right? Since it’s an infusion like broth is. That’s how I see it, at least. Maybe I’m nuts