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footfootfoot 01-07-2007 09:08 AM

Where is the maple syrup?
 
This ante meridian, the afflicted requested smoothies. Usually made with yogurt, strawberries, bananas, a dash of vanilla, and maple syrup. After hunting high and low, I could not find the syrup so I substituted with honey.

I had a feeling the inch was behind the disappearance and I taxed him with it, but he just gave pale green blank looks.

Later, CustomG found the gallon of maple syrup behind a living room chair.

Mom: Did you put this behind the chair?
Inch: Yes.
Dad: Is that your own personal supply?
Inch: Yes.

could be cross posted with funny things they do/say.

Undertoad 01-07-2007 01:59 PM

When I was 5, I was so in love with syrup that on two different occasions I walked straight into neighbor's houses and broke into their fridges to have a gulp.

keep your doors locked, the weird next-door kid is on a sugar high again

zippyt 01-07-2007 02:41 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTbVdfFD8sQ

skysidhe 01-07-2007 02:55 PM

Is it 'real' maple? Good syrup is hard to find. I am not even sure if 'Log Cabin' still makes theres with 3% maple. It's all sugar and flavoring.:mad:

Pie 01-07-2007 03:40 PM

Try Grade B maple. It knocks the socks off of Grade A -- it's a lot stronger tasting, and great for baking and desserts. :yum:


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U.S. Syrup grades. Left to right, Vermont Fancy, Grade A Medium Amber, Grade A Dark Amber, Grade B

Clodfobble 01-07-2007 03:43 PM

I have always thought syrup was one of the most disgusting things ever. The only thing worse is syrup on French toast. :greenface

rkzenrage 01-07-2007 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by zippyt (Post 305074)

When they fucked with the stoned kids made that whole movie worth it... it was beautiful. Notice most of that scene is in the trailer.
My father has a maple syrup habit. I'm 1/2 afraid to use it because I have a theory that it is addictive and a narcotic based on his behavior.

skysidhe 01-07-2007 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Pie (Post 305084)
Try Grade B maple. It knocks the socks off of Grade A -- it's a lot stronger tasting, and great for baking and desserts. :yum:


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ades_large.JPG

mmmmm :yum:


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There's something about this that seems so cruel. I know it's just a tree!

footfootfoot 01-07-2007 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by skysidhe (Post 305077)
Is it 'real' maple? Good syrup is hard to find. I am not even sure if 'Log Cabin' still makes theres with 3% maple. It's all sugar and flavoring.:mad:

Is it real? That's right up there with "I think I had an orgasm."

We live in Maple country. I think there is a fifteen hundred dollar fine for having fake syrup in your house. Around here we know the syrup makers personally and go to the syrup orgy each year when the sap starts running. We're hooked up.

Aliantha 01-07-2007 07:11 PM

Maple syrup is very expensive over here. Even the imitation stuff. We don't grow maple trees here much though, so maybe that's why...

Mostly what's in our shops comes from Canada.

footfootfoot 01-07-2007 09:08 PM

how about tea tree oil? and eucalyptus? not for pancakes, but as a sort of "hostage sap exchange program."

People around here pay insane prices for tea tree oil and they slather it on anything even remotely inflamed. I bet per gallon you get more.

Around here, Grade B which is what most people use, (A being extremely sweet and having a very 'clear' or simple flavor, B having more complexity and stronger tree like flavor) goes for about $25-35 gallon on the farm. Higher in stores. A goes for almost twice that price. It is really good though.

Aliantha 01-07-2007 09:15 PM

We have lots of tea tree oil products over here and people do put it on bites and cuts etc, but not all that much. You don't need to slather it though. Just a touch is enough.

Over here for authentic maple syrup (don't know what grade it would be) we have to pay about $12 for 300ml which is about a cup full.

footfootfoot 01-08-2007 12:21 AM

Well, if you buy it by the cup here it can get pretty steep, maybe 5 or 6 bucks. How many Ozzie dollars to a US dollar anyway?

Thought about an import biz?

Aliantha 01-08-2007 12:23 AM

80 au cents to a US dollar

Urbane Guerrilla 01-08-2007 02:50 AM

Sugar maples need a snowy winter, and the Ozzies just plain aren't in the right latitudes for the climate band sugar maples are adapted to.

I'm kind of surprised the Russians don't grow any. They've got deciduous forest.

The grade will be given on the bottle. Grade B runs darker color than Grade A of any variation, which tends toward the colors of blend whisky, or of rums. Whenever possible, B is what I get.

Fobble, that's... awfully strange. French toast is about my favorite, and real maple syrup surely satisfies the palate as no other attempt at syrup does.

Now what Australians do with pancakes is pretty novel in American eyes -- one bright day in Perth W.A. I had beef potpie all over a short stack of pancakes for lunch.


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