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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
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 Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 4:27 am Post subject: Pet peeve: Fake maple syrup |
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I was at a franchise panini place a few days ago and ordered a "ricotta cheese & banana maple panini" take-out. Upon getting home and dipping the sandwich in the syrup, I was quite irritated to discover that the syrup was definitely not maple syrup.
I've had this experience at a number of brunch places in Seoul, too: They advertise "maple syrup" on the menu even if it's not. I usually make a point of asking if it's real maple syrup, and I usually get a very shifty-eyed, hesitant "yes", followed by some kind of butter or corn syrup.
Hmm... maybe I could report them for fraud? I'm being facetious, but I kind of wish I could. |
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Skippy
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 4:31 am Post subject: Re: Pet peeve: Fake maple syrup |
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| cdninkorea wrote: |
I was at a franchise panini place a few days ago and ordered a "ricotta cheese & banana maple panini" take-out. Upon getting home and dipping the sandwich in the syrup, I was quite irritated to discover that the syrup was definitely not maple syrup.
I've had this experience at a number of brunch places in Seoul, too: They advertise "maple syrup" on the menu even if it's not. I usually make a point of asking if it's real maple syrup, and I usually get a very shifty-eyed, hesitant "yes", followed by some kind of butter or corn syrup.
Hmm... maybe I could report them for fraud? I'm being facetious, but I kind of wish I could. |
Ya, I get ya. Businesses will often go cheap or the wait staff is dense. Maple Syrup means ottogi syrip right?
Might be the time, to stop trusting everyone and start packing your own syrup. |
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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 4:38 am Post subject: |
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I read an article that said something like 50% of all maple syrup was just high fructose corn syrup.
Have you seen the prices of maple syrup here? Unless your sandwich was 20K, I wouldn't expect the real stuff. |
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Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 5:07 am Post subject: |
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C'mom man!
Did the Canadian really just start a post complaining about fake Maple Syrup?!? That's too much.  (But I guess I'm only amused becuase I'm Canadian and can't stand real maple syrup. It's gotta be Aunt Jemima for me!)
Can some American please start a thread complaining about not having access to an AK47. |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 5:23 am Post subject: |
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| optik404 wrote: |
I read an article that said something like 50% of all maple syrup was just high fructose corn syrup.
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Corn syrup with Maple flavoring. No restaurant in Korea is going to use real maple syrup as a mere condiment. Not even in the US which has its own real maple syrup. Goodbye profits.
Back in the US there is one coffee shop that you have to pay extra for Jam on your Bagel because the jam is expensive. I don't bother ordering Jam when I go there. I stick with just butter. |
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Gnawbert
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| Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 9:14 am Post subject: |
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C'mom man!
Did the Canadian really just start a post complaining about fake Maple Syrup?!? That's too much. (But I guess I'm only amused becuase I'm Canadian and can't stand real maple syrup. It's gotta be Aunt Jemima for me!)
Can some American please start a thread complaining about not having access to an AK47. |
Psh. Us Americans don't use AK47s. We use M14s or M16s.
As for the syrup, I've had that Ottogi stuff pulled on me a few times and it's rubbish. But yeah, every time I pass by the Maple Syrup and see it for 16,000 - 25,000 I get the same reaction when I see a bag of plain Lay's Potato Chips for 5,000. |
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jonpurdy
Joined: 08 Jan 2009
Location: Ulsan
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| Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 10:17 am Post subject: |
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| Gotta bring your own. It's pretty rare for me to need maple syrup while in Korea but I do have a bottle for those occasions. Being Canadian, I wouldn't touch the fake stuff; I'd rather eat something else entirely than have fake maple-flavoured junk. |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 11:37 am Post subject: |
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I'm sick of maple syrup. I had too much of it in Quebec.  |
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Swampfox10mm
Joined: 24 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 11:49 am Post subject: |
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So just buy some at the International Food Market in Itaewon.
I like the Ottoki stuff. Tastes fine to me.
Not a fan of runny Canadian maple syrup. Never have been. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Newbie wrote: |
C'mom man!
Did the Canadian really just start a post complaining about fake Maple Syrup?!? That's too much. (But I guess I'm only amused becuase I'm Canadian and can't stand real maple syrup. It's gotta be Aunt Jemima for me!)
Can some American please start a thread complaining about not having access to an AK47. |
Psh. Us Americans don't use AK47s. We use M14s or M16s.
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Take yer fur-heat wearing, beet and sour cream eatin, pinko commie guns elsewhere. |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 10:28 am Post subject: |
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| I need a lot of syrup on my waffles and pancakes so it has to be the fake stuff. The real stuff is great, but I'm not paying for it. You know the US produces the stuff too, why is it talked about like it's such a Canadian thing? |
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wishfullthinkng
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| Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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| the irony is that most americans have no idea what real maple syrup is either and would probably balk at the idea of getting "runny fake stuff" if given the real deal. i can't speak for other countries but i know this would happen in good ol' us of a, where as previously noted, they make their own. |
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Newbie
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| Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 5:17 am Post subject: |
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| young_clinton wrote: |
| I need a lot of syrup on my waffles and pancakes so it has to be the fake stuff. The real stuff is great, but I'm not paying for it. You know the US produces the stuff too, why is it talked about like it's such a Canadian thing? |
I think Quebec accounts for something crazy like 80%+ of the entire world's maple syrup production. So that probably has something to do with it.
Canadians make a helluva lot of apple pie, but we don't care when people use the saying "As American as apple pie"
Oh Lord, I hope I didn't just start a cross border pissing match. The apple pie comment is just to show a comparison you your "US produces it too" comment. In no way did I mean that as the typical Canadian "we can do it too" kind of comment. And in no way am I trying to assert that Candians do apple pie more or better than Americans do. |
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LeaforKorea
Joined: 29 Jun 2013
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| Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 5:46 am Post subject: |
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| wishfullthinkng wrote: |
| the irony is that most americans have no idea what real maple syrup is either and would probably balk at the idea of getting "runny fake stuff" if given the real deal. i can't speak for other countries but i know this would happen in good ol' us of a, where as previously noted, they make their own. |
I just have to put my 2 cents in here because even though I'm a silly american, I began a serious love affair with maple syrup when I lived in Vermont for my grad school education.
Yep. Outside of Vermont, New England and Minnesota, the only "maple" syrup most americans know is Mrs. Butterworth's.
There are no restaurants that I know of anywhere that I've been in the midwest or the southwest or the south that serve real maple syrup.
I have to buy my grade B (because it's thicker & more rich than grade A & is great for cooking and sweetening coffee!) online from Vermont, which isn't cheap but it's still less expensive than paying at least $12 for an 8oz bottle of grade A fancy from the grocery store.
It's like $50 a gallon from Sugarbush Farms in Vermont and you can order it online, but I'm not sure if they ship overseas......
I'm heading to Korea for my first year and I think I'll just try and go without and see if it's actually possible to drink coffee with sugar instead and not die from maple withdrawal.  |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:59 am Post subject: |
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| LeaforKorea wrote: |
| wishfullthinkng wrote: |
| the irony is that most americans have no idea what real maple syrup is either and would probably balk at the idea of getting "runny fake stuff" if given the real deal. i can't speak for other countries but i know this would happen in good ol' us of a, where as previously noted, they make their own. |
I just have to put my 2 cents in here because even though I'm a silly american, I began a serious love affair with maple syrup when I lived in Vermont for my grad school education.
Yep. Outside of Vermont, New England and Minnesota, the only "maple" syrup most americans know is Mrs. Butterworth's.
There are no restaurants that I know of anywhere that I've been in the midwest or the southwest or the south that serve real maple syrup.
I have to buy my grade B (because it's thicker & more rich than grade A & is great for cooking and sweetening coffee!) online from Vermont, which isn't cheap but it's still less expensive than paying at least $12 for an 8oz bottle of grade A fancy from the grocery store.
It's like $50 a gallon from Sugarbush Farms in Vermont and you can order it online, but I'm not sure if they ship overseas......
I'm heading to Korea for my first year and I think I'll just try and go without and see if it's actually possible to drink coffee with sugar instead and not die from maple withdrawal. |
Vermont is in New England...
I'm really bothered by this distinction between "real maple syrup" and "maple syrup". If it doesn't come from a maple tree, it's just syrup. What connection do Mrs. Butterworth's and Aunt Jemima's syrup have to maple? There isn't even maple flavor added. This isn't even meant as a judgment of those syrups, but I've never understood why anyone would call them "maple" syrup when they consist of corn syrup without even a hint of maple flavoring. |
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