Subj : Re: Pepsi
To   : Blue White
From : Adept
Date : Mon Jan 16 2023 09:46:28

 BW>  Ad> And, for the record, it _is_ hard to find pancake syrup here, but map
 BW>  Ad> syrup (Ahornsirip) is easy to find, so long as you're happy with
 BW>  Ad> Canadian maple syrup.
 BW> 
 BW>  DW> There's a difference between Canadian and U.S. maple syrup?
 BW>  DW> (other than "maple syrup" and "maple syrup, eh?"  8) )
 BW> 
 BW> I am guessing the difference is that the "pancake" syrup is processed and
 BW> sweetened, where the ahornsirip maybe is not.

When I said it, I was thinking about it more in the, "Made in Germany" sense.

E.g., if you buy a t-shirt, it probably doesn't matter which country it came from, beyond whether or not they're likely to have used a quality manufacturing process and/or good cotton.

But maple syrup is made by boiling down sap from maple trees, in the early spring when it's above freezing during the day and below freezing during the night. You'll get a similar product north or south of the Canadian border.

What's probably more important is how late in the season people make the maple syrup -- the later in the season it is, the darker the syrup tends to be, and the more intense the flavor is.

And that darkness is put on a scale, with the scale changing depending on country, and, going back a few years, changing _within_ a country, because of things like how people thought that grade A is better than grade B, when "grade B" just meant, "this is darker, and has more maple flavor". So now, in some places, it's, e.g., "grade A dark amber".

Pancake syrup, on the other hand, is something that's a recipe, chosen by manufacturers

(And "Ahornsirup" is just the direct translation of "maple syrup".)

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