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I just did a google search for maple stirs and the only websites that have them are the ones that reference where I grew up.
Oh man, I love maple stirs -- it's essentially partially boiled down maple sugar. They pour it into a paper bowl and give you a stick and you stir it as it cools and hardens. If you eat it before it's all the way hard, it's the most amazingly delish consistency.
Also, I am now fat.
I spent almost 20 years drinking skim milk because of the fat-is-BAD hype. When I moved in with The Boy, I discovered that he drinks 2%, which made me recoil in horror. But I'm too lazy to buy 2 types of milk, so we just get 2%.
Lo and behold, I haven't gained weight from that evil evil 2% milk. And oh, my god, it tastes SO much better!
I grew up on margarine, but can't stand the stuff now.
This is me. Real butter all the way. And you can get the butter bells to leave on the counter so it stays softer and spreadable, instead of having it in the fridge.
"Butter bells"?
I grew up on a lot of margarine too, but am a butter ho. I keep a little out of the fridge at all times, so no bread tearing for me.
Like this, Kathy.
Maple stirs sound amazing! And yes, Kat, I was going to come back to comment on the wrongness of Tropical brand syrup. At least Log Cabin sounds cold!
My sister lives in the tropics and she gets us to bring her maple syrup. So that's how they roll.
She doesn't really care that maple syrup isn't especially cheap in California (she's used to us bringing it from Canada) but it beats Kingston prices.
Trader Joes has some amazing Grade B syrup that comes in a wine shaped bottle for a pretty reasonable price.
Kat, I think that's called maple taffy here.
I love butter, but I can psychosomatically feel my arteries hardening when I eat it, so I use both. Even though my nutritionist friend says margerine is full of the evil transfats.