Plain vanilla is an adjective describing the simplest version of something, without any optional extras, basic or ordinary.
[1] In analogy with the common ice cream flavour vanilla, which became widely and cheaply available with the development of artificial vanillin flavour.
[2] Certain financial instruments, such as put options or call options, are often described as plain vanilla options.
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