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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Vile Maple Syrup
  • Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:15:06 -0500

Steve Herje wrote: "In my experience, the North American food that has gotten the strongest reaction from European visitors is maple syrup---they (with a few exceptions) consider it disgusting--gaggingly vile. One might like to think that Aunt Jemimah were to blame, but I only use the real stuff and the reaction has been the same."

I had always wondered why some people think Maple syrup tastes disgusting until, one day, a woman came into the store with a half-gallon jug of "maple syrup." She asked that I put the contents into smaller bottles adding that a relative from Maine sends her such a jug every year.
As I began pouring it into pint bottles, I noticed that the syrup seemed black instead of the dark brown I know it should be. So I tasted a bit from the end of my finger.............YUK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was gawd awful HORRIBLE(!), somewhat resembling the taste of gasoline, probably the fermented end-of-the-season slop that the cereal companies buy for cheap. I made some of it once and was embarrassed to sell it to the corporate buyer.
When I had finished with her request, I informed the woman or the quality of her relative's syrup and gave her a bottle of my syrup as an example of what maple syrup is supposed to taste like.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
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