# The sap must flow! 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [February 9, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sap-must-flow-2023/979543 "2023-02-09T21:01:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 23
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sap-must-flow-2023/979543/23 "2023-02-13T00:31:25Z")
I actually found this “thread” I started a long time ago. They took advantage of what they had, that’s for sure. > [@Time for some "mud chicken"!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-mud-chicken/681394): > > Funny story on another website: The poster had a relative who worked in a nursing home, and would sometimes bring patients who could leave on a pass home for dinner if they didn’t have any family nearby. While making small talk with one elderly woman, she said it was the time of year for “mud chicken”. “Mud chicken”? In early spring, while the maple syrup was boiling down, they would slaughter the spent hens, roll them around in a mud puddle, throw them into the fire under the syrup cauldron… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sap-must-flow-2023/979543)._