― Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of The Haunted House (Bimble...), Saturday, 24 December 2005 07:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mika, Saturday, 24 December 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.thisisbradford.co.uk/bradford__district/leisure/cinema/jpg/supertroopers.jpg
― Mika, Saturday, 24 December 2005 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, this was something my parents always did. If someone forgot to bring it and we had to use the crappy sugar syrup, there was great lamenting and rending of garments.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 24 December 2005 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 24 December 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm not in the U.S. anymore and I went to buy some maple here and it was fucking horrible.
― Catty (Catty), Saturday, 24 December 2005 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 24 December 2005 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Heck, you should have taken EVERYthing with you: pancakes and/or toast. You'd probably get a discount. Only need to pay for service.
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 24 December 2005 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 24 December 2005 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link
Camp, obv.
― Mika, Sunday, 25 December 2005 00:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― howell huser (chaki), Sunday, 25 December 2005 00:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 25 December 2005 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 25 December 2005 00:57 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost -- I'm not a yuppie -- not urban (damn it).
― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 25 December 2005 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 26 December 2005 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I not only eat real maple syrup, I sometimes eat it while wearing LL Bean shirts and Eddie Bauer socks.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:16 (eighteen years ago) link
i see that 'being a yuppie' = coming from New England, which is filled with poor people
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:37 (eighteen years ago) link
Represent.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 26 December 2005 05:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 December 2005 05:21 (eighteen years ago) link
anyone have any good opinions4u on maple syrup
― Keith Mozart (D-40), Sunday, 24 May 2015 09:08 (nine years ago) link
i mean, specifically, what kind is best? my dad has been telling me that the 'grade a dark amber' stuff most commonly sold in stores nationally is on the low not as good as the "crappier" grades & its basically a trick for the locals to keep all the good syrup to themselves
― Keith Mozart (D-40), Sunday, 24 May 2015 09:09 (nine years ago) link
hmmm http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2014/04/02/goodbye-fancy-so-long-grade-b-making-sense-of-maple-syrup/
― Keith Mozart (D-40), Sunday, 24 May 2015 09:24 (nine years ago) link
I think 'what kind is best' largely depends on personal taste. A lot of ppl do opt for the darker grades as you dad suggests though, despite the predominance of lighter grades in stores and breakfast cafes. There is no difference in how various grades of maple syrup are collected - the colour variations are a result of seasonal/temperature changes rather than some being more 'processed' than others.
Personally I'd probably go with a darker one... not the very darkest, the one above that. Somewhere in the range of 'dark with robust taste' or 'dark amber'. And then I'd use it to make maple pecan tarts and for frying sausages at breakfast, mmm.
Maybe buy a light and a dark and do a taste test?
― salsa shark, Sunday, 24 May 2015 10:49 (nine years ago) link
I'm just going to assume that the OP was referring to this synthetic garbage:
http://i.imgur.com/NyWczW1.jpg?1
because actual maple butter (aka maple cream) is a spreadable paste made from 100% maple syrup, and it's great. you can buy it at farmstands or make it yourself by boiling and cooling maple syrup and stirring it until it thickens (I've never made it myself, but I've been meaning to for some time)
tbh I can't really tell the difference between light and dark syrups
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Sunday, 24 May 2015 12:51 (nine years ago) link