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IHOP Serves Real Maple Syrup -- Only in Vermont

ericb — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:54:17 -0800

In the past many folk rightfully pointed out that IHOP (International House of Pancakes) didn't have a restaurant in Vermont. Times have been a changin.' Last month, Vermont became the 50^th and final state to welcome an IHOP. And, being in Vermont, "old fashioned corn syrup," masquerading as true maple syrup didn't make the grade. "The IHOP here is the only one of about 1,400 in the United States, Canada and Mexico to serve real maple syrup." The managers got permission from the company "with a special dispensation" to serve the real stuff.

"The 'real stuff' comes in a container on the side and costs diners an extra 99 cents. The restaurant buys it from Sugarman of Vermont, a confectionery in Hardwick, and sells about 180 containers a week. It is not yet listed on the menu, but news has spread by word of mouth."

The sap is flowing

longsleeves — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:32:55 -0800

Up in Maple country The season is right for making maple syrup. Grades a,b,d; colors are factors. The international market is a factor. Visit lovely Cape Breton. Make pancakes with blueberries. Some more syrup people.

Mmmmm. Maple Syrup in Pancakes.

ericb — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:50:04 -0800

"The sweet aroma of sap permeating the air, still harkens the arrival of Spring"^* in New England, Canada and other U.S. states. The Eastern Woodland Indians discovered that maple sap cooked over an open fire produces a sweet sugar [video], resulting in maple syrup. Many associate the syrup with Quebec (which produces most of the world's supply) and Vermont where about "one of every four trees...is a maple."^* Vermont even has a "maple cop." He enforces "Vermont's maple regulations for the state Agency of Agriculture, which strictly regulates how Vermont's most famous export is made, marketed and sold."^* Always fun this time of year is to visit a sap house, sugar shack, sugar house, sugar shanty or "cabane à sucre" to watch the process of making the confection and to enjoy not only the syrup, but also maple taffy/taffee, maple sugar, maple cream and maple butter. How To Guide to Tapping Maple Trees and Making Maple Syrup [PDF] Maple Sugaring in Your Backyard [PDF] Making Maple Syrup [video].

good smell perplexes new yorkers

kingfisher, his musclebound cat — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:54:25 -0800

Good smell perplexes New Yorkers How odd the city smelled sweet, like maple syrup, and all over: up in Harlem, downtown, in Astoria, Park Slope, other parts of Brooklyn. And what was it? A breakout of MSUD and public urination? Or something more fortean or more sinister?