back when I did QC on such. Beautiful vanillin crystals nearly shrouding each bundle.
Locked in an almost-Safe they were - pricey way-pre creeping inflation. One sniff of pure M. extract, before mixing with the cheap stuff for supermarket shelves: was sufficient. That was billions of consumers ago.

Guess this shows that virtually everything can be screwed up via er, unrestrained bean-counters -- even the beans. (Decimation may solve this for the vanilla beans, but there would be objections raised by whiny complainers.)