SC - ODD DAY

[James Gilly / Alasdair mac Iain]

Hauviette wrote:
>macdairi at hotmail.com writes:
> >what comes out of the brown woman's head...
>
>is that stuff really maple syrup?
>
>Hauviette
>who pays $10 for 700ml of maple syrup from Quebec.

No! Way! "Mrs. Butterworth's" is mostly corn syrup with artificial 
maple and butter flavors.

Some maple flavored products say "artificial and natural flavors" but 
they don't mean *natural* maple. One natural ingredient used in maple 
flavored syrups is fenugreek seed (smell some - it has a mapley 
smell, although not a mapley taste).

Now when i was a kid back in the 1950's i *think* Log Cabin still had 
maple in it blended with the corn syrup. But there hasn't been any in 
Log Cabin since at least the 70's.

Since i don't drown anything i eat in syrup and i don't have a sweet 
tooth, i only buy real maple. So the expense is worth it for the 
subtler, more complex flavor of real maple, and i don't use it up 
real quickly. If i wanted corn syrup, i'd just buy corn syrup :-)

And real vanilla is most likely not used in "maple flavored syrup" 
nor in many vanilla flavored things. Check the label. Often it's 
artificial vanillin. I can often tell when some kind of artificial 
vanilla is used as my nose just stuffs way up. But i don't know which 
kind of artificial vanilla has this effect...

Anahita

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