"Buttery" maple syrup -- C/D?

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I think if you want butter on your pancakes, apply it separately. Leave the syrup alone.

― Gukbe (lokar), Saturday, 24 December 2005 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link

tough life

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 24 December 2005 02:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I do not believe in buttery maple syrup. Thank you.

― Halloween Spooky Party Hints! (Bimble...), Saturday, 24 December 2005 03:25 (eighteen years ago) link

that doesn't mean it's not real. it is real.

― Aaron A, Saturday, 24 December 2005 03:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I have many important opinions regarding this topic, the first of which I shall present at this moment.

http://tinypic.com/j0vd6u.jpg

― origami snail (origami snail), Saturday, 24 December 2005 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link

The original poster had it right, sorry. You should apply butter SEPARATELY or the gremlins will light a fire in your shorts you'll never forget.

― Halloween Spooky Party Hints! (Bimble...), Saturday, 24 December 2005 03:32 (eighteen years ago) link

What the hell is that pic (or I for that matter) doing on this thread?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 24 December 2005 05:20 (eighteen years ago) link

See, this is the thing: there's only one kind of maple syrup, and since butter doesn't grow on trees YOU'LL HAVE TO APPLY IT SEPARATELY.

PS: the other stuff is "pancake syrup".

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 24 December 2005 06:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Butter and Syrup is awesome together, you are all lame.

― Mika, Saturday, 24 December 2005 06:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Syrup & Bacon is also greta.

― Mika, Saturday, 24 December 2005 06:23 (eighteen years ago) link

so would you want bacon flavored syrup?

― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 24 December 2005 06:33 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.sanmiguel.com.ph/uploads/Maple%20Bacon%20Full.gif

― Mika, Saturday, 24 December 2005 06:40 (eighteen years ago) link

please.

― Mika, Saturday, 24 December 2005 06:43 (eighteen years ago) link

To restate what was said above, Maple syrup has only two qualities: it's Maple-y and it's syrupy.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 24 December 2005 07:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I stand corrected. Not living in the United States, I wouldn't have thought that this was even possible.

― Mika, Saturday, 24 December 2005 07:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Butter is good *with* syrup -- don't get me wrong.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 24 December 2005 07:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I understand.

― Mika, Saturday, 24 December 2005 07:31 (eighteen years ago) link

for shame, I found this

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00032C75Q.01-A3CDPEGSIQM61V._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Mika, Saturday, 24 December 2005 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link

eew! Does it also taste "waffley"?

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 24 December 2005 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Butter and syrup together are good, yes. But you MUST APPLY THEM SEPARATELY.

― Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of The Haunted House (Bimble...), Saturday, 24 December 2005 07:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Does anyone else take their own syrup to restaurants? I grew up in a family of maple syrup snobs. I hate to put that fake shit on pancakes or french toast. (I have gotten my wife on board with this. She grew up in the South and didn't know any better, but once I got her on the real maple there was no going back.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 24 December 2005 07:42 (eighteen years ago) link

bahahaha you bring your own syrup! Fuck, that's great.

― Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of The Haunted House (Bimble...), Saturday, 24 December 2005 07:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Chug your own Syrup why not?

― 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

bahahaha you bring your own syrup! Fuck, that's great.

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

(That said, I can also make a pretty good brown-sugar syrup in a pinch. It's not maple, but way better than Mrs. Butterworth.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 24 December 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

So name some premium syrups then.
I was always fond of Mrs Butterworth's -- thought it was way better than Log Cabin, anyway.
And I don't like that stuff at the IHOP... although the blueberry was interesting.

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

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/VSM-Can-Color-Silo1.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 24 December 2005 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Does anyone else take their own syrup to restaurants? I grew up in a family of maple syrup snobs. I hate to put that fake shit on pancakes or french toast.

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

Now that would be silly.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 24 December 2005 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link

So name some premium syrups then.

Camp, obv.

― Mika, Sunday, 25 December 2005 00:23 (eighteen years ago) link

you horrible guys eat the blood of trees

― howell huser (chaki), Sunday, 25 December 2005 00:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't mind at all. i think it's tasty. i can't afford real syrup, you guys are yuppies

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 25 December 2005 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link

is there anyone on ilx who ISN'T a yuppie?

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 25 December 2005 00:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Mrs. Butterworths isn't as buttery tasting as it used to be. I don't think it even has any tree-blood in it anymore, just HFCS and artificial flavor. I like real maple syrup okay, but it's too thin.

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

living in QC has made me a real maple syrup rockist

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 26 December 2005 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Well it ought to: Quebec has the most sugar maples on earth. I go for the medium to dark amber myself. I likes me butter on toast and other things.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:06 (eighteen years ago) link

is there anyone on ilx who ISN'T a yuppie?

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

i haven't had rockist syrup in quite some time. i'm going to buy some soon and do shots of it.

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:13 (eighteen years ago) link

My dad used to swig it straight from the jug, for reals. It's disconcerting to come into the kitchen and find your dad chugging the maple syrup.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, there has been not enough discussion on this thread of the glories of MAPLE SUGAR CANDY -- which, again, you have to get the REAL stuff and not the "maple-flavored" crap. That was always in our stockings on Christmas. I suddenly feel like my holiday experience is incomplete.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:16 (eighteen years ago) link

gypsy mothra otm

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

http://owgd1.onewebgroup.net/Merchant2/graphics/00000014/maple/maplejugs.jpg

Represent.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:38 (eighteen years ago) link

people who don't live in new england or canada and can afford to buy the real stuff locally = yuppies :-)

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't forget the upper midwest!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 26 December 2005 05:16 (eighteen years ago) link

indeed!

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 December 2005 05:21 (eighteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

anyone have any good opinions4u on maple syrup

― Keith Mozart (D-40), Sunday, 24 May 2015 09:08 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link

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