Steve,
It’s not just Europeans.
I find maple syrup – the real thing, as well as maple-flavored syrup – or any thing maple-flavored, including bacon(what a blasphemy! It’s supposed to be HICKORY smoked!) – to be disgusting and quite off-putting from a taste perspective.
Growing up in UCLA (upper corner of lower Alabama) in the ‘50s/’60s, ‘syrup’ - at least in my family, was either cane syrup(AlaGa or Cane Patch), corn syrup(dark Karo), or my (still)favorite, Golden Eagle syrup(Yellow Label is a close second, if you can’t find Golden Eagle), which is a mixture of corn syrup, cane syrup, and honey. THICK and sweet – makes the very best pecan/hickory pies in the world, and doesn’t make your pancakes/waffles a soggy, sodden mess, like that nasty maple/maple-flavored ‘pancake’ syrup.
Log Cabin or Aunt Jemimah? Doesn’t matter to me – if those are my choices, I’ll do without.
Was discussing this thread with a co-worker yesterday, and she brought up the ‘peanut butter’ angle and the apparent disgust Brits have for it – but, I’d have to think that if my ‘jelly’ choice was orange marmalade, I might not care for a PB&J sandwich either.
Lucky Pittman
Son of the South
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.
Steve Herje
SW
WI USA
USDA zone 3
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