Hm, but it's not like that's how vanilla sugar seems to be sold to the masses in Germany at least? I mean I have seen a whole section of different sizes of packets of vanilla sugar in supermarkets, it doesn't seem to be DIY, home'made', etc. there either, but just sort of bog-standard cheap-as-dirt supermarket sugar. (I mean obvs it is pretty cheap to fill a jar w/sugar & stick a vanilla bean in, tho those aren't usu cheap.) I mean it felt v. ordinary & unremarked-on & common, but not in the "everyone is sticking vanilla beans into jars" way, if that makes sense.