I don't think it should be illegal to sell fake syrup... That seems a bit much to me.
Maybe make it illegal in Vermont. Or tax it more than the real stuff to make it more expensive than the real stuff.

Or subsidy the maple syrup industry to make the real stuff more affordable...

But I was vastly disappointed when I went to Vermont and it was an upcharge for real maple syrup but the fake stuff was free.

It's a damned shame that generations are being raised on fake food. Almost everything is artificially flavored or colored to resemble real food. But it's not..

PANCAKES!

GreenAdder: I read somewhere that most of us 'Mericans are so used to artificial syrup that we sort of shut down when confronted with actual maple syrup. We miss the viscosity and such. I don't know that I've ever had actual maple syrup, so there's that.

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violentsalvation: Maple syrup is nectar of the gods. When I was a little kid I would climb up on the kitchen counter and take swigs out of the bottle.

THIS. In other words, you'd know.

/ Buy some. It'll set you back five bucks.

// You'll thank me.

Hey, you guys aren't thinking here. More felonies = more prisoners. More prisoners = more virtual slave labor to pick crops and repair roads AND more jobs for regular Americans as prison guards.

This is a GREAT idea.

m0llusk: With a few more years of warming the real stuff will only come from Canada anyway. Vermont will have to develop some other industry, or maybe ninjas.

Oak or beech syrup?

tag get paid off?

I've had real maple syrup. Once. Never again. It ruined a perfectly good stack of huckleberry pancakes, nastiest thing I've ever tasted.

Goddamn it. This is why conservatives think Democrats are loons. Not Helping!

This bill is ok. All it does is make the sale of a fake product more than just a slap in the sticky wrist. Not that the cops or prosecutors could be bothered to enforce it, to make sure the fraud artist's(CEO's) get prison time, but it's a nice thought.

/Now wheres that Republican bill that labels Oil with the 'pumped out of America' tag.
//Wasn't Queerbec crying a few years ago about all their Maple tree's slowly dieing and the need for more subsidies from the rest of Canada, to make up for the lost revenue...

On top of the amazing-ness of real maple syrup - how many of you have had real "Fancy Grade" maple syrup? Not that Grade A dark amber crap that they sell in supermarkets, but the kind that you have to basically know someone in Vermont to get.

Holy jesus is that stuff delicious. It's the most incredibly delicious thing on the face of the earth.

I used to think that water-based pancake mix was low-rent. Now I enjoy it.

Just make B Grade more widely available. It tastes better.

Good, and when you're done Senator, come to New Mexico. I'm sicking of places that offer you honey-flavoured syrup for your sopapillas.

shivashakti: It's a damned shame that generations are being raised on fake food. Almost everything is artificially flavored or colored to resemble real food. But it's not..

That's a bit harsh. It still has calories and nutritional value, it's real food. Though I'm curious where the hell you grew up that you eat natural products without processing somehow. Are you some kind of grazing animal? Because humans have, at minimum, induced major chemical changes in their food by holding it over a fire since the stone age.

The most natural maple syrup you can get still has several processing steps, you need a very carefully controlled boil to alter the polymerization and filter it to remove byproducts, at minimum. As it comes out of the tree the stuff turns into a sugary amber very quickly.

Sort of like the butter law in WI? At least that is like 80 years old, so we can say it was just never taken off the books....

I am the 1%


that uses fake syrup

Sigh. He's not on a campaign against Mrs. Butterworth's, folks.

What he's saying is that it's either maple syrup, or it's not, and that the penalty for something that's already illegal should be raised from a misdemeanor to a felony - calling anything other than syrup derived from boiling the sap of several types of sugar maple trees "maple syrup." I'm in favor of that.

It's getting harder and harder to get maple syrup, because over the last couple of decades, climate change and resulting complications have both reduced the quality of sap and the lifespan of the sugar maples delivering that sap. To put it bluntly, real maple syrup is increasingly a product worth counterfeiting, and it's being increasingly counterfeited. If bumping up the penalty for selling counterfeit maple syrup slows this trend down, that's a good thing.

ToxicMunkee: We don't have enough people in prison?

we have the wrong people in prison.

/HUGE picardfacepalm.psd

moops: m0llusk: With a few more years of warming the real stuff will only come from Canada anyway. Vermont will have to develop some other industry, or maybe ninjas.

Oak or beech syrup?

Ailanthus.

WhoIsWillo: That's why most of those products are called "Maple Flavored Syrup" or "Pancake Syrup"

And that's why he wants to go after the people who take "Maple Flavored Syrup" or "Pancake Syrup" and put a "Real VT Maple" sticker on it. Because the counterfeiters are stealing money from our state economy when we really can't afford it.

ibanezdude: cmunic8r99: The fake stuff is better.

there, I said it.

Die.



Here you go.

I have a question about maple syrup. Does it really take tens of gallons of tree sap to make a small amount of maple syrup? I heard it was somewhere along the lines of fifty gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup. Any truth to that?

GreenAdder: Also, this seems appropriate:
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Somewhere, Papa Smurf has a huge smile on his face.

Unexceptionally: [t0.gstatic.com image 184x273]
"That's ludicrous - The great state of Vermont will not apologize for its syrup!"

Came for this; leaving satisfied.

I RTFA. This law makes sense. Why should people be able to lie to you about what they are selling? All of you "OMFG REGEWLAYSHUNS!" morons need to shut up.

Ummm... I'm pretty sure that selling non-maple syrup as maple syrup is already covered under fraud laws.

/syrup.