That’s the old school way!
During prohibition vanilla extra was very popular.
They tore down an old bank building in my home town. When they knocked the walls down which were around the presidents office, they found many hundreds of empty vanilla bottles. The banker could afford it!!
“During prohibition vanilla extra was very popular.”
In Oklahoma, Prohibition only fully ended in 1959 so there were still plenty of stories about such workarounds by alcoholics when I arrived in 1972. As was probably like your hometown, this was a small town with plenty of known local characters who had used vanilla extract. The small drive-in burger joint where I worked still had nickel soft drinks and a special was a “Dobby” Coke, a short-filled nickel cup of Coke to allow room for the alky to top it off with his desired concoction. I got an education on a different slice of life, for sure.
There’s always the legendary shoe polish and bread if one can’t stand the taste of Vanilla.