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Is your maple syrup real or fake? In my household the only maple syrup we'll accept is the real stuff Aunt Jemima's or other fakes are just infinitely inferior and lack the sweetness of real maple syrup.

It's real or nothing here. I'm almost as fanatic as my Canadian friends about my maple syrup.

So long as it's hilariously unhealthy in large doses I'm digging it.

I used to get maple syrup from my uncle in unmarked metal cans. It was fantastic. If I don't have real, fresh maple syrup, I'll eat whatever it is completely dry.

Also, I've developed an ability to detect fake maple syrup from thirty meters away.

Swordwind wrote:It's real or nothing here. I'm almost as fanatic as my Canadian friends about my maple syrup.

A lot of my buddies seem to cheap out and go for the fake stuff, but to me it should be an offense great enough to get your Canadian citizenship revoked.

I live about an hour from Vermont. It's not possible for me to have fake Syrup.

I really don't care.

Coolyo294 wrote:I really don't care.

HERESY! *blam*

Once I discovered the real stuff years ago there was no going back. Those cheapies that are loaded with sugar and other fillers and only have a small amount of the real thing in them always have a weird "burnt" flavor. The real thing is so much better.

I'm from Upstate New York, only about 30 minutes from Vermont. I grew up with the good stuff and I won't settle for anything but the real thing.

Im not a fan of pancakes...........

KingCracker wrote:Im not a fan of pancakes...........

What does maple syrup have to do with pancakes?

It......it goes on pancakes?

It goes on EVERYTHING!

Swordwind wrote:It goes on EVERYTHING!

I cannot stress this enough.

There are two constants in this world. Bacon and maple syrup.

Well, three constants. Bacon, maple syrup, and the Spanish Inquisition.

Never had it...

It most certainly does not go on everything. Its like melted suckers, being poured onto your food. No thanks.

It sure goes with Cantonese fried rice.

Let me go check.

lol,all we have is sugar-free stuff. My mother's diabetic so it makes sense.

What is in fake syrup? The real stuff is just sugar.

The strangest stuff we've had was when we bought the wrong chocolate syrup for ice cream and ended up with this stuff that came out the bottle as a liquid but then went solid like a hard crust on the ice cream. Normal chocolate syrup stays fairly liquid and doesn't go completely solid.

Howard A Treesong wrote:What is in fake syrup? The real stuff is just sugar.

The strangest stuff we've had was when we bought the wrong chocolate syrup for ice cream and ended up with this stuff that came out the bottle as a liquid but then went solid like a hard crust on the ice cream. Normal chocolate syrup stays fairly liquid and doesn't go completely solid.

I like that stuff...
It's nice.

Actually, you'd be surprised. The chemical make-up of various foodstuffs can vary widely depending on the source.

Even a small variation can make a huge difference-- one atom bonded at the wrong angle in the molecule can turn something from a food to a poison (cis vs trans molecules and R vs S enantiomers come to mind).

KingCracker wrote:It most certainly does not go on everything. Its like melted suckers, being poured onto your food. No thanks.

Ah. So you consume the fake stuff.

Real Maple Syrup is one of the ultimate fixings. It goes well and stands next to garlic and Breaded and Deep-fat-fried int terms of versatility.

Howard A Treesong wrote:What is in fake syrup? The real stuff is just sugar.

No the real stuff is tree sap, representing mankind's conquering and taming of mother nature every time I have a waffle I'm constantly reminded of this accomplishment as I pore my maple syrup over it.

I mean hell, I've tasted sugar, and that fake sugar that diabetics eat-- it tastes almost nothing like real sugar.

Maybe my tongue's more sensitive to taste than most peoples' though?

Bacon and scrambled eggs on toast with a pancake on the side all covered in obscene amounts of butter and maple syrup. Breakfast of unhealthy champions.

Brother Azul wrote:Bacon and scrambled eggs on toast with a pancake on the side all covered in obscene amounts of butter and maple syrup. Breakfast of unhealthy champions.

I prefer brown sauce with that...

Huh...and all this time I thought Jemimah and Butterworth were the real stuff...

Then again I live about as far away as you can get from Canada while still being in America so...

Florida? Hawaii?

I always get the real stuff for myself, and then I only use it chilled.