Where is the maple syrup?

footfootfoot · 01-07-2007, 09:08 AM

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.

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.

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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.

01-07-2007, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by zippyt

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

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

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

mmmmm

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

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.

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.

01-07-2007, 09:08 AM	#1
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	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. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

01-07-2007, 02:41 PM	#3
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01-07-2007, 07:11 PM	#10
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	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. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

01-07-2007, 09:08 PM	#11
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	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. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

01-07-2007, 09:15 PM	#12
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	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. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

01-07-2007, 01:59 PM	#2
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	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

01-07-2007, 02:55 PM	#4
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	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.

01-07-2007, 03:43 PM	#6
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	I have always thought syrup was one of the most disgusting things ever. The only thing worse is syrup on French toast.

01-08-2007, 12:21 AM	#13
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	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? __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

01-08-2007, 12:23 AM	#14
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	80 au cents to a US dollar __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

01-08-2007, 02:50 AM	#15
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	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. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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