Mark Thorson wrote:

mary wrote:

Today I attended a maple syrup festival where pancakes were served
with maple syrup made from the sap of trees located in the park.
First the syrup had the viscosity a little thicker than water.
Secondly there did not appear to be much "maple" flavor.

That's the way it comes from the tree. You boil it down to
make it thicker and darker.

I'd like to try "fresh" maple syrup someday, just to see
what it's like. However, as you found, it probably isn't
much like what most folks are used to.

I doubt that they were actually serving maple sap
on the pancakes. I go to a maple festival in Meyersdale,
PA every couple of years. The Lions Club has an all-
you-can-eat pancake breakfast and it's real maple syrup.
Real maple syrup is nothing like fake, maple-flavored
syrup. So, it would be easy for someone to think the
real stuff might have been watered down. That would
never happen. Most of the people who go to a Maple
Festival anywhere are going to be lovers of real maple
syrup and there would be an outcry of horror if what
you're suggesting were the case.

Kate
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What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?