# Where to Find Molasses in Grocery Store **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 8, 2009, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351 "2009-01-08T07:36:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/21 "2009-01-08T13:56:07Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > I’d expect to find it with the pancake syrup and such. Failing that, I’d look near the sugar. > > I’m 43. Seconded. 1. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/22 "2009-01-08T14:00:25Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > Huh… I’m 37, I’d expect to find it with baking goods. People pour that stuff on pancakes? It smells **vile**! I’ll put it on waffles more often than syrup. It’s delicious. Unfortunately, my wife forbids me from using it if I’m going to be anywhere near her for the following 24 hours. Lots of sulfur in there, don’tchano. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/23 "2009-01-08T14:00:35Z")
I’d expect to find it in the baking aisle with the sugar, flour, frosting, and cake mixes. I’m 31 but I used to work as a stockboy in a grocery store and that is where we had it. ---
**Author:** ![Karyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Karyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karyn)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/24 "2009-01-08T14:00:43Z")
I use it to make gingerbread and it’s in the baking section, which is conveniently located right next to the syrup section. The aisle goes from cookie and cake mixes to flour and sugar, then pancake mix and syrup. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/25 "2009-01-08T14:14:00Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > In the 1875 section. > I didn’t realize people still actually use the stuff. Baked beans, my friend, baked beans. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/26 "2009-01-08T14:38:59Z")
In the baking goods aisle, next to the other sweetening agents like artificial sweeteners, corn syrup and various types of sugar. The only use for molasses that I know of is baking, mostly in gingerbread-flavoured goodies. Like **matt\_mcl** pointed out, no self-respecting Canadian would put molasses on their pancakes when maple syrup is easily available. (Lyle’s Golden Syrup, on the other hand, is found with syrups and jams… but I expect that’s one of those strange British-isms that you don’t see outside the Commonwealth) ETA: I’m 30. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/27 "2009-01-08T14:41:44Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > Well there goes that theory. I was at the store today looking for molasses in the baking section. I thought it’d be next to the sugar. But nope, it was in another aisle with the syrups. The store manager said that they had done focus groups and people over 30 thought it would be in baking and those younger thought it would be with the syrups. Not entirely off base - as I said, my first inclination is to look in baking goods but in recent years I’ve been “trained” to check the syrup aisle. There’s one store in my area that has it _both_ places. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/28 "2009-01-08T14:42:51Z")
Having only looked at the first three posts - I’m in my late 30s, and would expect to find it in the baking section next to the corn syrup, because that **is** where I find it. Reviewing the other posts: Molasses on pancakes? Ew. **Real** maple syrup is the way to go, and I don’t mean that fake junk, either. And now that I think of it, I haven’t looked to see if molasses is also stocked with the ‘pancake syrup’ as well. ---
**Author:** ![PaperBlob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@PaperBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaperBlob)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/29 "2009-01-08T14:43:03Z")
With the pancake syrup. Failing that, in the baking aisle. This is based on many years of shopping experience. If I had never bought it before, I would probably go straight to the baking aisle. Im 46 years old. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/30 "2009-01-08T14:51:15Z")
Baking goods aisle. I’m 27. And damn it, now I want pancakes with maple syrup! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/31 "2009-01-08T14:54:27Z")
Syrups, 53. But that’s a cheat. I know _exactly_ where molasses is at my grocery store because I use it all the time making cookies. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/32 "2009-01-08T15:01:42Z")
Just gotta briefly hijack with what I consider an appropriate joke, which I believe I first heard here: \*One day Father Mole stuck his nose out of the family’s burrow, took a sniff, and commented, **"Is that maple syrup I smell?"** His wife joined him at the burrow entrance, and said, **"No dear, I do believe it is treacle."** Down below Baby Mole tried to join them, but with his parents blocking the entrance he complained, **“All I smell down here is mole asses.”** \* ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/33 "2009-01-08T15:10:46Z")
Either baking or syrup, because I shop in several different stores, and it is invariably NOT in the aisle I check first! 🙂 50 ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/34 "2009-01-08T15:14:40Z")
With syrups, and that’s where it is in my store, along with the corn syrup. I use it exclusively to make gingerbread (and the corn syrup is for caramel corn). I’m 41. ETA: I just asked Mr. S and he said with the sugar (baking stuff). He’s 53. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/35 "2009-01-08T15:16:53Z")
Another item for the “What would you use it for?” question - my rye bread recipe calls for molasses. ---
**Author:** ![pendgwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@pendgwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pendgwen)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/36 "2009-01-08T15:18:46Z")
I’d look in the baking section since I use it for molasses cookies and gingerbread. I’m 30. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/37 "2009-01-08T15:20:11Z")
Baking aisle first. 53. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/38 "2009-01-08T16:06:25Z")
I happen to know that my favored supermarket stocks it with the pancake syrup. For all I know, they also stock some in the baking aisle, but I can’t remember for sure. You can also find cane and corn syrups in the pancake syrup aisle. I’m 37. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/39 "2009-01-08T16:28:22Z")
The weird ass store in this town doesn’t put corn syrup by the pancake and fruit syrups or in the baking section. They have it by the cereal section. That required me to get an employee to track down where they had it. I guess they expect children to pour it on their frosted cereal so they put it there. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351/40 "2009-01-08T16:31:57Z")
I’d look in the baking aisle first, but invariably be wrong and have to go back to the syrup aisle. Then the next time I went in, I’d remember it was in syrups, go there, and have to hoof it over to baking. Frakking stores moving things all the time! (Which, apparently, is neither illusion or managers with ADD - they really do move things around exactly so you can’t find them right away. That way you look at 12.4 new items while you’re searching for the stuff you buy all the time.) 34 years old. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-molasses-in-grocery-store/480351.md?page=3)