Maple Syrup Shelves of Shame

christinestaffa Uncategorized February 6, 2022 1 Minute

The “Shelves of Shame” exhibit at the New England Maple Museum, Pittsford, VT (VT251 rides again).

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Published February 6, 2022

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anonymous says:

February 8, 2022 at 6:45 am

I worked briefly for Vermont Maid in Burlington, adding the maple (which even back then was only 5% and from Canada). I’d come home at night glazed.

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1. christinestaffa says:
  
  February 9, 2022 at 1:46 am
  
  They did say that some of those brands had some single-digit percentage of real maple. I was like, why bother?
  
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  1. anonymous says:
    
    February 11, 2022 at 3:33 am
    
    Can’t paste graphics, more’s the pity, so I’ll just say Vermont Maid back then advertised itself heavily as old-fashioned maple syrup from Vermont, including on the bottle label. It wasn’t, of course, but truth-in-advertising rules weren’t strict. The company extrapolated from a wholesale maple broker so it’s even possible that maple sugar from Canada cost less than artificial maple flavor. I can tell you they didn’t spend much on the kid in the attic unwrapping and chopping up said sugar with a hatchet, feeding it into a chipper.
    
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