[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Brit. Food: Pancakes and Waffles

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

At 3:49 PM +0000 12/7/03, gulplum wrote:
>
>And a note on maple syrup. The maple (tree) is exclusively native to
>North America. There is therefore no tradition of eating maple syrup
>outside North America (due to its non-existence) and wherever it's
>sold it's an imported product, and accordingly quite expensive. The
>concept of drenching anything in this product is pretty much
>unthinkable.

Actually, it's fairly unthinkable to drench anything in maple syrup 
on a regular basis in most parts of the South in the US, for the same 
reason - sugar maples don't grow down here, either.  I imagine it's 
not quite as expensive, but it's still a "special occasion" thing.

However, we do have syrups that are not maple.  Probably the most 
common one is corn syrup, which is quite common across the US.  Local 
to the South is sorghum syrup, which is made from a different 
grain-type plant and is very good.  Then we get into things like 
molasses and sugar syrups . . . and things like mixes of corn and 
maple syrup with "maple flavoring" (ick).

Do y'all not pour any sort of syrup on your (*baked good of choice)? 
I seem to remember treacle and golden syrup being mentioned in 
various bits of Brit-lit that I read as a child, and had assumed that 
they were used in the same manner.

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