Pro-tip: if you are a restaurant owner, and you claim to serve maple syrup, make sure that it is maple syrup.

Most US restaurants serve table syrup, however some of them call it maple syrup.

"Wait... that's not the same thing?"

Holy shit! No! It is not the same thing at all. Table syrup is a mixture of sugary and highly processed ingredients. Maple syrup has only one ingredient: maple syrup.

"How can it be that maple syrup has only one ingredient?"

They tap the maple tree, extract the sap, and boil it.

"They boil the tree? 😱 "

No, the sap! Boiling the sap turns it into a syrup. There is processing, but it is minimal.

I'm going to a new restaurant for lunch today. The usual spot at which we hold our bi brunches is apparently closed today. (I don't know why.) The new place is *supposed* to serve maple syrup. I'm going to put it to the test. If they don't, I'm going to report them for deceptive advertising.

Table syrup is not the same as maple syrup, similarly to how margarine is not butter.

Taste-wise, it does not come even close.

#MapleSyrup #TableSyrup #restaurants #DeceptiveAdvertising

On my grocery trip this morning, I decided to buy maple syrup. I got to the spot where it is and right next to it there was an "all natural" syrup... cheaper.... but it is... ahem... table syrup.

Yeah yea yeah. I know the spiel. All the ingredients are "natural" therefore they can call the combination "natural." There's no way you can tap a tree and get that combination of "natural" ingredients, however. Maple syrup is natural in a way that this table syrup isn't. (Yes, I did check the ingredient list.)

Of course, I got the real maple syrup. I live in the US, but I'm from Québec, and Québec is the top producer of maple syrup. I have cousins that produce the stuff.

Whenever I get that stupid "table syrup" substitute, it feels like an insult.

I don't think I bought maple syrup since separating from my ex-wife.

#groceries #MapleSyrup #TableSyrup #natural #FoodLabeling #Québec