Ermintruder
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no, no they aren't
Ah, but I wonder... whilst it must be correct to say that vanilla ≠ custard, I've just discovered that there is such a thing as "vanilla custard", in a related naming style similar to "egg custard" (note: until now I only knew of custard as being a homogenous yellow pudding, and slapstick stage tool).Not the same as that use of vanilla, as @Frideswide has pointed out.
In the online business meeting I was in, I didn't get to hear the woman who mentioned "custard procurement" to say anything other than that single clear statement: but on consideration, she might have had a slight eastern European accent. I wonder if she had unconsciously synonymised the words, thus producing an accidental idiom?
Or: might it be the case that in some other languages of the world, the words 'vanilla' and 'custard' ARE synonyms? (nb this is just sheer conjecture).
An excellent and insightful suggestion: but whilst in life such circumstances can often be the outcome, this most-assuredly was not the intent (verbally, personally or collectively).It might be used to describe a "Custard pie procurement" as something that was farcical.
Business meetings do tend to be incubators of neologisms & caricature phraseology, so let's see if this usage of custard obtains 'wider leverage' when/if it ever 'goes viral offline'....please do 'reach out to me' if you hear it in the wild.