To be honest, I prefer “pancake syrup” to the real stuff. Aside from it being considerably more expensive, real maple syrup is runnier and doesn’t “cling” the same way pancake syrup does.
The vast majority of the syrup sold/used in the U.S. is “pancake syrup” (brands like Aunt Jemima/Pearl Milling, Mrs. Butterworth’s, Log Cabin, etc.) and while it may have maple flavoring, none of it contains any maple syrup, much less being 100% maple syrup.
I used to work on Aunt Jemima, and a lot of U.S. consumers generically call all of it “maple syrup,” even when it isn’t actually that; a lot of them also don’t really realize that they aren’t actually eating maple syrup. Consumers who actually seek out real maple syrup are in the minority – they actually know the difference between the mass-market pancake syrups and real maple syrup, and are willing to pay the significant price premium for the real stuff.
This is just another way to help employers not pay what they should be paying for employees. 'You’re not an employee anymore? Congratulations! I’m off the hook for what I was required to pay."
I’m definintely going to have to cross-post this one in the “The Union’s in a state thread”. Remember when the felon complained about Democrats not standing in support? He lied about who did the killing. (The bolding is mine.)
Let’s do some math, shall we? 42,695 divided by 47,300 equals 0.9 which is 90%. That means nine times out of ten, the felon’s flacks are breaking the law.
Surprised?
I’ve mentioned before I believe every conspiracy theory ultimatey becomes anti-Semitic. Guess what!
Or, in the case of my nephew… make maple syrup. Yes, he taps the trees on his property, collects the sap, boils it down, and bottles it. Last year he made 3 gallons for his own and family’s use.
He’s going for more than that this year. He wants enough to experiment with making maple syrup candy in addition to all the other uses he has for it.
It’s a lot of work but apparently he likes real maple syrup.
The real deal is quite different from the mass-market “pancake syrup”.
I volunteered at a sugarbush in Ontario, for a few years, when I was in my early 20s.
I know everything there is to know about sugaring. I conducted tours of the operation, and made sure that everybody got to try some real maple syrup.
And for my efforts, I’d typically be gifted a quart bottle of real maple syrup, that I had helped to make. Fine by me; I had fun, and I enjoyed explaining everything. The free quart was a bonus.
Sorry to change the subject from maple syrup, but this is worthy of note:
‘Staggering’ Incompetence: Critics Rip Trump Admin After U.S. Shoots Down Its Own Drone
The military reportedly used a laser weapon to take down a drone operated by Customs and Border Protection.
Critics are calling out President Donald Trump and his administration after what appears to have been a massive screw-up in the airspace around El Paso, Texas, for the second time in less than a month.
The U.S. military on Thursday reportedly used a laser weapon to shoot down a drone near the U.S.-Mexico border. It turned out the drone was operated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, The Associated Press reported.
Please note that this is the SECOND time in a month that they’ve screwed up with shooting things down at El Paso. This is a completely new case of incompetence
But unless you’re eating pancakes almost every week, it’s not actually that much of a premium. I think of it as a “Cheap Luxury” item. Sure, a bottle of the real maple syrup may cost two or three times as much, but I’ll maybe buy one bottle per year. On that time scale, it’s not really that expensive, but it’s a far better product.
On the other hand, the lack of real maple syrup, and to a certain extent, the use of the term “maple syrup” for the fake stuff making it hard to determine if a restaurant has the real stuff, has contributed positively to me not having a lot of sugar for breakfast, since I won’t eat pancakes or waffles without it.
But when I do use it, I use a lot less maple syrup because it is so flavorful. Just enough syrup and butter so the pancake isn’t bone dry. Not a lot of syrup remains on the plate, as opposed to almost having enough for an entire new pancake with the fake stuff.
