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[debilorrah]

Learn something new every day. thanks!

 

[JennsPeeps]

I lived in France and yet I don't like mushrooms, olives, or bleu cheese.

All are completely wasted on me, though I do try from time to time, just in case!

 

[conny63malies]

I have to admit one more thing. Like the stereotypically german i own a dirndl. But i have not worn it in a few years .

 

[MissPrissy]

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Debi, I think the debate was about "real" maple syrup tapped from a tree and stuff like Log Cabin or Mrs. Butterworth's which is made from cane syrup, so "not real."

What you have described in those national brands is not cane syrup. Most of those are high fructose corn syrups flavored in who knows what ways.

Cane syrup is REAL syrup made from Sugar Cane pressed and the juices boiled down into syrup.

Maple syrup is tapping the juice flow from maple trees and boiled down into syrup.

I did not grow up with maple syrup and I don't really care for it. I grew up with farmers that grew sugar cane and this is the syrup we ate. It appeared on both the morning and evening table and was always available wherever there was a hot biscuit.

 

[asher]

No way! Born in New England, but raised in the South. I'd drink maple syrup with my cereal if I could afford it!

Though I PREFER maple candy. OMG. Wish we could get it here. When we went to VT and ME over the Summer, I brought some back for people at work and they've been asking for more ever since. It's soooo expensive to buy on-line or from Cracker Barrel, though.

 

[conradpdx]

Love the real maple syrup. Big jugs of it are Christmas gift from my sister who live in VT. I think she pays about half the price that'd I'd pay for it out here on the west coast.

I get syrup and I send her some Oregon/Washington Pinot wines. Trying to convince my other sister in WI to jump on board with some cheese, and trying to figure out what's good in IN where my folks live, but all they seem to grow round their place is cattle feed. Though I visited once and found a couple pounds of morel mushrooms when taking a walk through an area about to go under development, but my folks aren't the forging types.

 

[krcote]

asher- you reminded me that although I do have a strong dislike for real maple syrup, I do LOVE the candy. Go figure!

 

[farmerlor]

Live in Colorado, can't ski. I do like Maple syrup or Maple anything though.

 

[asher]

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I swear when we went up (first time I'd gone on vaca back "home" and brought the kids) the kids acted like it was sugar crack.

Darn good stuff, though! Mmmm! May have to beg my cousin to pick some more up and ship it to me! hehe

 

[ChicknJ]

Born and raised in NE, gram used to tap the trees and cook it down
She would make maple cream...heaven on toast, syrup and candy

Anybody ever tried the Maple Sugar cotton candy in the VT building at the Big E? They had it there when I was a kid....

a few yrs ago