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>Because one is red colored and one is white? So what?

So what depends on why things are different colors. For instance, red velvet cake is just vanilla cake dyed red with food coloring. In that case, there wouldn’t be a difference in taste. On the other end, vanilla bean ice cream has black specks distributed throughout from the contents of the vanilla bean itself. If you substituted black pepper, it might look the same but it would not taste the same. As Niksko explained, red and white wine are different due to differences in ingredients and different processes which impart different flavor and color.

[darkerside]

Yeah, I'm aware of that. See my other comment. I don't know enough to say whether the impact on flavor is proportionate to the impact on color. I'd like to say I'm wise enough to realize that the dramatic change in color is very likely to be more impactful, or at least allow for the possibility.

[ses1984]

Red velvet is actually chocolate cake dyed red.

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Yes, thank you. I knew it, but still wrote vanilla.