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Default Maple flavoring - where do you buy it?

James Silverton wrote:
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> Why do people have to be so dogmatic about tastes unless they want to
> start a fight?


Bingo :-)

> After all, Thomas had it right more than half a millenium
> ago: "De gustibus non est disputandum". I won't go into the different
> varieties and qualities but I like maple syrup and I also like honey.
> The last part of that sentence is a little too general; it's like saying
> you "hate" honey. The neutral supermarket honey is rather uninteresting,
> IMHO, but there are innumerable varieties of honey depending on the
> flowers from which the bees make it: heather, orange blossom, clover
> etc. I once saw a shop in Paris that only sold honey and had over 100
> flavors.


I like both honey and real maple syrup. Heck, I even like corn syrup. It
used to be my favourite sweetener for Cream of Wheat. Perhaps maple
syrup is an acquired taste. I used to get my with Log Cabin artificially
flavoured pancake syrup until I got used to real maple syrup. I can't go
back to the artificial stuff now.


I eat some honey almost every day. I like it. Some are better than
others. Once in a while I have buckwheat honey, but only once in a
while. I just wish the com honey was a lot cheaper.