B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for May 07, 2023

Apparently it doesn’t hurt the trees or they wouldn’t still be around.

Maple tree?

Peter wants to tap into some of that tree’s stored nutrient strength.

No. He wants maple syrup FOR his pancakes. Unless he LIKES sawdust pancakes.

Don’t most people use the fake syrup? My brother even says that he likes the fake stuff more than the real thing (yeah, he’s crazy).

If he wants pancakes isn’t he going about it all wrong. I am not a food expert but I thought pancakes were produced from flour batter which supposedly comes from wheat or other grains, with some butter and eggs mixed in? Can you really get pancakes from trees?

I believe the Time Machine took us to the wrong part of the year in BC. Yip yip yip yip yip

From the sublime to the practical.

How do you count the number of trees in a forest?

You begin with one, two, tree… Hee hee hee!

I think that they are barking up the wrong time of the year. But then they are a couple of saps, aren’t they?

I think he got part of that kind of switched around: it’s more likely for the tree to grow a fraction of an inch in diameter and extending each little limb a few inches.

Not to nitpick, but sugaring season is Feb/Mar. Sap’s already run its course for this year. (and yes, the leaf is wrong)

When I look around my property I am amazed at some organisms that are 60 feet tall!

I know a man who gathers, makes and sells Maple Syrup! About 25 miles from me it’s Maple Syrup country and a festival!

Yummy!

In a summer, the diameter grows a fraction of an inch. Growth rings, remember?

And in that time, the limbs (at the twig end) grow much more than a fraction of an inch.

Disclaimer: I Am Not A Botanist.

I live in the second largest country and largest supplier of maple syrup in the world and we proudly put it on our flag!

https://www.freepik.com/premium-vector/canada-country-food-pancakes-maple-syrup-flag-national_2125385.htm

Phony Maple Syrup has the sugar content we crave to jump start us in the morning.

I prefer real maple syrup.

Bit late to tap for syrup now.

My grandparents had a subsistence farm in Ohio from 1915-1985. They tapped maple trees for syrup and sugar. There was very little they couldn’t raise or grow and during the depression they traded for the few things they couldn’t.

Well, as long as he isn’t cutting down the amazing tree to make a gazebo or grill up some ribs I’m thinking it’s not a bad arrangement.

Roses are red/ Violets are purple./ Sugar is sweet/ And so’s maple surple. — from Roger Miller.

A little off-season here for the US, aren’t we? Do they have maple trees in the Southern Hemisphere?

And when the tree’s tapped out, he’ll chop it down for firewood to turn the sap into syrup.

The following cartoon has been banned by the insecure crowd for stereotyping cavemen as syrup makers

You can tell when Kids are eating REAL syrup….because when you try to look at them all you see us a BLUR….

Pancakes with maple syrup, Mm-mm. OH! now I’m hungry.

100 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup.

Pancakes with Blackberry syrup today, mmmmm!

’Missed sequestered carbon and spewed oxygen.

You know how expensive real pancake syrup is?

What a sap.

Oak syrup???

I have friends who put sugar-free syrup on their pancakes. I have absolutely no idea what is in the syrup bottle and kind of don’t want to.

Too much heat not enough water.

I cannot leave the page without recommending a poem by Joyce Kilmer: “Trees”.

Living in Mexico, I’ve discovered a great substitute for real maple syrup. It’s called “jarabe de agave”, and it’s made from the nectar of the agave plant.

The leaf looks like oak, not maple.