No Maple Syrup

Super Steve · Mar 27, 2015

So I just got a little chuckle at my girlfriends expense. She is out in Kelowna BC right now, staying at a hotel with the breakfast deal. Well she got all excited because they had fresh pancakes, so she loaded a stack on her plate. Looked around for maple syrup, couldn't find it anywhere, not on the buffet table, not on her table, not on someone else's table. Finally she asked a waitress, oh sorry we don't have any. WTH!!!! she was so upset. Here in Ontario that's all the rage right now, we made our yearly trip to the sugar bush/pancake house 2 weekends ago. There is signs for fresh maple syrup every where. We bought our yearly supply also. She wishes she had taken s jug with her now.

JRSutton · Mar 27, 2015

I live on pancakes when I travel. I'd have been pretty upset too! That's almost as bad as not having coffee.

You'd think a hotel would give an employee ten bucks to run out and buy a little mrs. buttersworth.

bill mart · Mar 27, 2015

having been raised on homemade maple syrup give me Mrs. Butterworth's any day. Mom used honey from our hives and the syrup as a sugar substitute for everything, gets old after a while. Bill

RayP(MI) · Mar 27, 2015

Brother and sister-inlaw run a nice sugar operation here in Michigan. They didn't even put buckets out this year. Weather and conditions are such that what little sap is flowing is very inferior, not good for sugaring.

No syrup this year. Sniff, sniff!

Mike (WA) · Mar 27, 2015

Kelowna is in Canada, but that's about as close a connection as it has to maple syrup. Its east of the coast mountain range in BC, and unless you can tap pine trees for syrup, you're about out of luck. But it is a very nice town- I have a good memory of hanging out in the city park with a bunch of young folks who were pretty generous in sharing their adult beverages with an ugly American back in about 1967 or so.

ditchwitch · Mar 27, 2015

Can you even eat pancakes without maple syrup??

Alan K · Mar 27, 2015

No, it is illegal in 4 states. (hee hee)

herringchoker · Mar 27, 2015

(quoted from post at 10:51:31 03/27/15) No, it is illegal in 4 states. (hee hee)

The daughter-in-law refers to any table syrup that's not real maple syrup as "telephone pole syrup".

JRSutton · Mar 27, 2015

Funny. I make two different kinds of pancakes - my kids call them either "fluffy" pancakes, or "rubber" pancakes.

The fluffy style is regular old buttermilk pancakes. For those - I much prefer the mrs. buttersworth syrup too.

But the rubber pancakes - those HAVE to have real maple syrup.

I don't know why.

by the way - the "rubber" pancakes are easy to make: One egg, one cup of white flour, and about one cup of milk - enough to make a thin batter. Cook with a good layer of oil in the pan. That's how my father made pancakes - and how his mother made them.

... getting me hungry now thinking about it.

Geo-TH,In · Mar 28, 2015

It was on our local news that maple syrup production was down. Something about the winter not being cold enough long enough or something like that. Our maple trees aren't producing like they should.

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