# Can you get drunk on pure vanilla extract?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 13, 2001, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-get-drunk-on-pure-vanilla-extract/68645 "2001-06-13T08:53:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrison_s_Lament)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2001, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-get-drunk-on-pure-vanilla-extract/68645/21 "2001-06-14T07:52:07Z")

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BTW, the Vanilla extract thing works out to be MUCH cheaper in countries that have huge alcohol taxes.

In Iceland the taxes are hundreds of percent, but don’t apply to baking goods. Hence the “great deal” the bums get.

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— G. Raven

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