Mape Syrup/Pancakes

[ovc88guelph]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, GulPlum <hp at p...> wrote:
> At 17:12 07/12/03 , Steve wrote:
> 
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> 
> The point I was trying to make is that the expense is secondary to 
the fact 
> that maple syrup is simply foreign to European culinary tradition 
(and, 
> perhaps more importantly, our palates). Since I wrote my previous 
message, 
> I've been out and about, and popped into three (large, 
cosmopolitan) 
> supermarkets. Only one sold "maple syrup", and the two products 
thus named 
> were as described above, with just a small percentage of the 
actual stuff. 
> The price tag was over £1.50 (around $US2) for 300ml (i.e. 
standard soft 
> drink can). Looking around online, a British supermarket (Tesco) 
is selling 
> the pure stuff for £2.50 (around $US4) for 330g (same quantity). 
How does 
> that compare to typical US prices?
> 
>
Not bad! Here it's $13 Cdn, or by my math, $9.75 US a litre. And by 
my calculations my family of 4 has used 9 litres since the 
last "run" in Feb. It gets used constantly, and we don't really make 
any effort to conserve it (although I only make maple cheese cake 
for out of country visitors...the recipe calls for 2 cups of syrup). 
Guess we never thought of this as a luxury!
 
MMcK