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That's my point - I would PAY extra for it! Others would too, I'm sure.
Sure, but not enough to make it economically feasible for the restaurant. They'd need a standing order, they'd have to assure their supply, and in the case of a chain, think of the logistics.
We do use the real thing here.
Tabasco used to sell mini bottles of their hot sauce for people to take with them to any restaurant. I don't know if maple syrup manufacturers would do the same.
Interesting topic. Yeah I prefer the real stuff over Log Cabin and HFCS type maple syrup, as well. But yep, it is pretty much a losing battle to ever see many breakfast places(if any at all) serve real maple syrup, over the lower quality and cheaper mediocre maple syrup with HFCS flavoring. I'm not sure if I even can think of a few places that do, and I live in the Chicago area for crying out loud!
Myself, I always have at least a little real maple syrup at home. I don't go as far as sneaking bottles of maple syrup wherever I go(and that yes, I'll settle for the fake syrup if by some weird chance I feel like it, when eating pancakes when out), but I'm not surprised that some do sneak real syrup into breakfast places serving pancakes.
I think the real maple syrup is not near as good as the imitation syrups. If both were on the table, free for me to use, then I'd definitely pick the maple flavored syrup every time.
Not everybody wants the true maple syrup and that real maple syrup is no more legitimate than the fake stuff.
There's nothing "plasticy" or "overly sweet" about it at all.
Besides, your pancake syrup damages the maple trees - ours doesn't.
You're precisely the reason that most restaurants serve up the vile, fake stuff that you apparently prefer. But to be clear, sugaring doesn't do a damn thing to the trees.
I had the syrup at Cracker Barrel a long time ago, and hated it. My family all hated it too. I was told that it was real Maple syrup, so I assumed that meant I didn't like maple syrup. Well, I just tried the real stuff again a few days ago, and it's GREAT. I will never go back to the fake stuff. It makes me wonder what on earth Cracker Barrel was serving years ago.
I was also surprised to find that maple syrup is very thin and watery. I expected it to be thick, and some posts in this thread seem to describe it as being thick...is it supposed to be thick or thin? I was eating 100% (or so they claim) dark amber syrup.
This is from a site which sells the stuff online:
"Q. How much maple sap does it take to make a gallon of Maple Syrup?
A. The amount of sap required to make a gallon of Maple Syrup depends on the sap's sugar content. If sap is 1% sugar it will take 86 gallons to make one gallon of Maple Syrup. At 2% sugar it will take 43 gallons to make one gallon of Maple Syrup. At Cloverdale Sugarhouse our Sugarbush tends to yield sap that is somewhere between 1% and 2% sugar. So we must process about 50 gallons of maple sap to produce one gallon of Maple Syrup. In a single day we can collect up to 12,000 gallons of maple sap!"
So I'm guessing that the thickness of the syrup may depend on how much boiling down the maker wants to do. The more you boil it down the thicker it will be but the less finished product you will have.
As much as so many of you are bemoaning Log Cabin as the bottom of the barrel, there are actually fake syrups that are WORSE than Log Cabin.
I was at a roadside diner in New Mexico, and the syrup served with my pancakes made them taste like they had been coated in plastic. My meal was virtually inedible. I actually took the time to complain to the manager that they had finally cut corners too far. The thing is, I would have found Log Cabin syrup to have been acceptable compared to what I had been served.
Though I just checked, and the fake syrup currently in my cupboard is Aunt Jemima, so maybe Log Cabin is uniquely bad among the mass market syrups.
Real syrup is still served all over New England, and not just in fancy places. We greatly prefer B Amber. The light grade A stuff is for tourists and flatlanders!
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I am not a fan of real maple syrup. I prefer Log Cabin, but I rarely eat anything with syrup as I don't like waffles or pancakes.
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