Originally Posted by pibbur who 
pibbur who hasn't seen a patient for more than 12 years, and who has noticed a distinct and permanent smell of vanilla in his hotel and also outside his hotel. And who therefore wonders if Chicago is some kinde of vanilla city? Like Baltimore is all about crab cakes?
Vanilla can be used as a cleaning agent from what I understand, so the question that comes to my mind is - "what are they hiding?"
I know more about common household cleaning agents than I want to or need to thanks to my mother-in-law, who is the MacGyver of stain removal.