ProTip: All consumer maple syrup is “Grade A”. There is “Light amber”, “Medium Amber”, “Dark Amber”, “Very Dark Amber”, and “The British Royal Family is worried”.
@mike808@PooltoyWolf Do you have any idea how serious “worried” is on the Buckingham Palace scale of adjectives? That’s right past “observing”, “concerned”, or “viewing with alarm”.
No.
Maple syrup should contain maple syrup. period.
You want other shit in there, add it to the syrup yourself. Hipsters can market little “syrup enhancement” kits, but leave the syrup alone!
@RedOak I’ve been using the Costco maple syrup for several years- it’s quite good, though slightly over-sweet, and reasonably priced. One can add some Frank’s if you want it spicy. Doesn’t make sense to buy untried syrup with unknown ingredients “infused” in Brooklyn…
“I’ve been using the Costco maple syrup for several years- it’s quite good, though slightly over-sweet”
I believe that sweetness reflects it being the more broadly preferred early season sap run variety. If you prefer a less sweet, more “maple” flavor that would require searching out a darker (later in the sap run season) variety.
I simply use less syrup. A frugal win-win.
(We have rural northern Michigan property with maples and gladly offer our trees to the neighbor when he takes the trouble to make maple syrup in exchange for some! We also clean out fallen smaller limbs for his fire - takes many hours/days of boiling!)
@sdb That’s exactly what I was waiting for - such a let down - it’s almost as bad as the time I poured maple syrup all over my crispy fluffy waffles only to find that it was artificial vegan butter flavored.
@jmoor783 Don’t fall for the memes. Brooklyn has some of the highest-quality stuff in the world now, including alcohol. I’m no hipster, but I don’t think I’ve ever been disappointed by NYC gourmet food, even the vegan fake meat stuff.
@ShotgunX I’m still sore about the my formerly favorite place that was purchased by a brooklyn hipster; the prices doubled and the service cratered, but at least you can now order chicken and waffles (at a pizza place)
@jmoor783@ShotgunX Where I am from, every local pizza restaurant sold chicken. Specifically, they sold wings. Back in the 1970’s, no one called them Buffalo wings.
The national pizza chains, like Pizza Hut, didn’t sell wings, and thus were ignored by the natives.
Later on, after wings spread through the country, corrupted versions would be offered by national chains and local restaurants that were run by people from out of town. You could often tell just by looking at the menu. If the wings were called “Buffalo wings”, that was a very bad sign. If the wings were available in only mild, medium, or hot, that was even worse.
The good places would have 5 or more levels of hotness.
@hamjudo@jmoor783@ShotgunX yes! Wasn’t just the 70’s. Went to school in rural NY much more recently, and came to love how every small town out there has at least one local pizza/wing/sub shop that almost always has excellent wings. Actual full sized chicken wings (and often from local poultry farms), not those wimpy pigeon “wings” the national chains try to pass off on the unsuspecting public.
The Anchor Bar in Buffalo may take credit for “inventing” the dish, but it’s the little mom-and-pop shops that have perfected it!
Maple syrup is delicious all by itself. Why do they add crap to cover up the flavor unless something is wrong with the syrup to begin with? Color me suspicious.
@phr Descriptions say syrup is from “US producers” or “Catskill Mountains”, which last I checked was well below the “Syrup Line” where the winters are cold enough and long enough to product the proper level, quantity and quality of a late winter sap run for decent syrup. Climate change has pushed the line up into mid-Vermont.
Apparently some US producers have figured out ways to artificially induce heavier sap runs in maples that are not within the desired climate zone, and US producers don’t have the tight requirements of Canadians in what they can call maple syrup.
BJs organic maple syrup (which is great) is 32 oz for $9.49, so $0.29/oz, vs this at $0.38/oz. Costco is usually around the same price for similar. So if you want high quality maple syrup, get that. If you really want these specific flavors, get this I guess.
This is a bit less than two quarts (that is, less than a half gallon), split into four bottles each less than 16 ounces (compare to Costco and Sam’s 32-ounce jugs).
Meh, sometimes you’re so stupid. If you let us buy two bottles of the spicy version or two bottles of the shitty vegan butter crap you’d probably sell more. I’d take two spicy but the other kills the deal. Greed kills too.
@mike808 I think now they’ll have to give both away! This company makes a coffee maple syrup, I’d have been down with that. Anything but vegan butter flavor. WTF is that?
¯_(ツ)_/¯
@Kyeh Exactly. If you want to know whether the daily Meh is a decent deal, don’t put too much stock in the naysayers in the forums. Look at the quantity sold. Crappy deals sell slowly. Decent deals sell pretty quickly.
But a decent deal is only part of the equation. A good deal on something you don’t want isn’t a good deal. (for you)
I saw the number sold was over 1,100 when I looked at the page today. I bought it immediately.
I plan to use the spicy syrup when I smoke ribs, in lieu of brown sugar. The butter flavor might be used the same way if I don’t like it on my French toast waffles.
@Bumplepimp Hey now! There are some pretty fine maple producers in New York STATE. As far as climate and geography are concerned, upstate NY is essentially New England minus the attitude.
But yeah, for any “natural food” product coming out of NY’s nutsack (aka The City)… time to cue up the old Pace Picante ads!
Years ago, my In Laws lived in Maine. They sent my Husband a jug or two of Maple Syrup for Christmas. It was Very Good, and Expensive at the time. It had no weird flavors added in. It didn’t need it. We got to see maple syrup being made. It was pretty cool. If I remember correctly, it took 20 gallons to boil down to one, which makes the high cost logical. It was thick and Yummy. I bought a jug at Walmart awhile back, and it was very disappointing. It was thin. Almost like water. What a shock! If this syrup was just syrup w/o any weird crap added in, I would buy it and give as gifts. No way do I need 4 bottles of syrup. So, MEH!
Trees Knees Spicy and Butter Maple are gluten-free, Paleo-friendly, and vegan
Net Weight Per Bottle: 12.5oz (354g)
Grade A: Amber color with a rich taste
Refrigerate after opening
Butter Maple
Combining sweet, rich, organic maple syrup from the best sugar makers in the U.S with a vegan buttery and salty goodness flavor, our Trees Knees Butter Maple is here to add decadence to your dishes because a buttery taste always makes meals better
Trees Knee Butter Maple is great on anything from seared pork chops to drizzled over fresh-popped popcorn to classic french toast
Ingredients: Organic Grade A Maple Syrup, Natural Flavor, Salt
Spicy Maple
Combining sweet maple syrup from the Catskill Mountains with a spicy mix of chile peppers, Trees Knees Spicy Maple is great on anything from a pan of roasted vegetables to crispy fried bacon to slices of skillet cornbread
Ingredients: Organic Grade A Maple Syrup, Oleoresin Habanero
No thanks. Tap our own maples, make our own grade A light amber each February, nothing added but the bottles we put it into for family and friends. No natural artificial vegan fake butter or spices. Just pure maple syrup.
@zzootticus
Used to do that years ago when I lived in VT. tapped about 15-20 trees. Also had a neighbor with a small commercial operation that would give me the “dregs” left in his pan at the end of the season. That made some really dark syrup with an incredibly strong flavor. This stuff, in my opinion, is an abomination.
Not in my home. Who comes up with this crap? I assume it’s for the ones who really enjoy “tourist” maple syrup. Living in New England and a former resident of Sugar Maple Country. I fully suggest avoiding this offer. Get the REAL unadulterated Syrup.
Here’s my take: if you buy a flavored something that’s flavored with anything but what it’s supposed to be, then you’re buying watered-down cheap sh!t. (See: flavored vodka)
ProTip: All consumer maple syrup is “Grade A”. There is “Light amber”, “Medium Amber”, “Dark Amber”, “Very Dark Amber”, and “The British Royal Family is worried”.
@mike808 bruhhhhhh I shouldn’t have laughed at that!
@mike808 @stevenmontes hell yeah laugh at that, that was funny!
@mike808 I snorted.
@mike808 @PooltoyWolf Do you have any idea how serious “worried” is on the Buckingham Palace scale of adjectives? That’s right past “observing”, “concerned”, or “viewing with alarm”.
@mike808 if everyone is Grade A then no one is!
I like that the artificial vegan butter flavored syrup is photographed next to a plate of sausage.
@sammydog01 it’s not just for vegans!
@PHRoG @sammydog01 Those could be soy product vegan sausages.
@sammydog01 @yakkoTDI now with vegan soy fried eggs!
@PHRoG @sammydog01 @yakkoTDI All of these people who are eating vegans really bothers me.
@blaineg @PHRoG @sammydog01 Doesn’t bother me. I have been at parties with vegans so it is no great loss.
@blaineg @sammydog01 @yakkoTDI were these vegan eating parties? I hear that’s how you get their powers!
/giphy deveganizing ray scott pilgrim
Sounds like they ruined some perfectly good maple syrup
@jmoor783 With any luck they’ve just ruined some crappy maple syrup.
@blaineg @jmoor783 Unless it’s grade C (or worse), it isn’t crappy. The maple syrup grading system is useful because it’s largely accurate.
@Ambiverbal @blaineg @jmoor783 is it? I remember thinking grade b was just as good a, just with a different flavor profile
No.
Maple syrup should contain maple syrup. period.
You want other shit in there, add it to the syrup yourself. Hipsters can market little “syrup enhancement” kits, but leave the syrup alone!
"syrup is one of those words that really starts looking stupid if you write it too many times …
@stolicat Like ‘blimp’. BLIMP BLIMP BLIMP
Yeah and dont forget syzurp! Thats vegan too.
@stolicat
Hmm. Costco sells some pretty fine authentic organic grade A Maple syrup for about 30 cents per ounce. ($10 for 33.8 ozs) vs 38 cents per ounce here.
Can’t speak for Sams Club’s variety since we haven’t tried it, but it is priced about the same as Costco like virtually everything else.
@RedOak but does it have fake butter in it?
@RedOak I’ve been using the Costco maple syrup for several years- it’s quite good, though slightly over-sweet, and reasonably priced. One can add some Frank’s if you want it spicy. Doesn’t make sense to buy untried syrup with unknown ingredients “infused” in Brooklyn…
@MrNews
“I’ve been using the Costco maple syrup for several years- it’s quite good, though slightly over-sweet”
I believe that sweetness reflects it being the more broadly preferred early season sap run variety. If you prefer a less sweet, more “maple” flavor that would require searching out a darker (later in the sap run season) variety.
I simply use less syrup. A frugal win-win.
(We have rural northern Michigan property with maples and gladly offer our trees to the neighbor when he takes the trouble to make maple syrup in exchange for some! We also clean out fallen smaller limbs for his fire - takes many hours/days of boiling!)
Shouldn’t the last product picture have been Irk washing his hair with the syrup-shampoo?
Missed opportunities.
@sdb That’s exactly what I was waiting for - such a let down - it’s almost as bad as the time I poured maple syrup all over my crispy fluffy waffles only to find that it was artificial vegan butter flavored.
Brooklyn hipsters ruin a lot of food
@jmoor783 Well, that’s just like, your opinion man
@jmoor783 Don’t fall for the memes. Brooklyn has some of the highest-quality stuff in the world now, including alcohol. I’m no hipster, but I don’t think I’ve ever been disappointed by NYC gourmet food, even the vegan fake meat stuff.
@ShotgunX I’m still sore about the my formerly favorite place that was purchased by a brooklyn hipster; the prices doubled and the service cratered, but at least you can now order chicken and waffles (at a pizza place)
@jmoor783 @ShotgunX Where I am from, every local pizza restaurant sold chicken. Specifically, they sold wings. Back in the 1970’s, no one called them Buffalo wings.
The national pizza chains, like Pizza Hut, didn’t sell wings, and thus were ignored by the natives.
Later on, after wings spread through the country, corrupted versions would be offered by national chains and local restaurants that were run by people from out of town. You could often tell just by looking at the menu. If the wings were called “Buffalo wings”, that was a very bad sign. If the wings were available in only mild, medium, or hot, that was even worse.
The good places would have 5 or more levels of hotness.
@hamjudo @jmoor783 @ShotgunX yes! Wasn’t just the 70’s. Went to school in rural NY much more recently, and came to love how every small town out there has at least one local pizza/wing/sub shop that almost always has excellent wings. Actual full sized chicken wings (and often from local poultry farms), not those wimpy pigeon “wings” the national chains try to pass off on the unsuspecting public.
The Anchor Bar in Buffalo may take credit for “inventing” the dish, but it’s the little mom-and-pop shops that have perfected it!
Maple syrup is delicious all by itself. Why do they add crap to cover up the flavor unless something is wrong with the syrup to begin with? Color me suspicious.
@phr Descriptions say syrup is from “US producers” or “Catskill Mountains”, which last I checked was well below the “Syrup Line” where the winters are cold enough and long enough to product the proper level, quantity and quality of a late winter sap run for decent syrup. Climate change has pushed the line up into mid-Vermont.
Apparently some US producers have figured out ways to artificially induce heavier sap runs in maples that are not within the desired climate zone, and US producers don’t have the tight requirements of Canadians in what they can call maple syrup.
@phr “Climate change has pushed the line up into mid-Vermont.”
Hilarious stuff there!
@gdibig @phr Why is that funny?
@phr @stolicat They make maple syrup in Virginia, because mountains. Sounds like New Englander propaganda.
@phr @sammydog01 actually I think it’s Canadian propaganda.
Sugar and spice and everything Meh.
BJs organic maple syrup (which is great) is 32 oz for $9.49, so $0.29/oz, vs this at $0.38/oz. Costco is usually around the same price for similar. So if you want high quality maple syrup, get that. If you really want these specific flavors, get this I guess.
@owenversteeg Not to mention the Costco and BJ’s come in a more manageable 32oz size. This is 50 oz, almost a gallon.
@mike808 @owenversteeg In the US, gallons are 128 ounces, fwiw.
This is a bit less than two quarts (that is, less than a half gallon), split into four bottles each less than 16 ounces (compare to Costco and Sam’s 32-ounce jugs).
@mike808 @owenversteeg @SelfGovern
Actually, Costco’s is 1 liter or 33.8 ozs, an even better deal!
. (Canadian-metric-sourced)
The one bottle says:
Artificial Vegan Butter Flavored
But I read it as:
Flavored to taste like Artificial Vegan Butter
@maxnl Psst. All artificial butter flavoring is vegan.
Also true: Artificial bacon flavoring is vegan.
@mike808 Yes, yes, of course. But the point I was trying to make was: why would I want to flavor something to taste like artificial vegan butter?
Would you rather have “tastes like butter” or “tastes like vegan butter?”
@maxnl And the ingredients say, “natural flavor”. Hmm.
brooklyn shampoo bottle syrup is what irk has savored
hip maple is artificial vegan butter flavored
if you take a swig of it you may find it atrocious
meh-percalifragilisticexpialadocious
Is two for $19 still a good deal because you’d flush the spicy maple down the toilet for being an abomination? Asking for a friend.
@katbyter take your $19 and buy some real maple syrup , and save the strain on your local waste water treatment system.
@katbyter I’ll take honest pepper flavoring over artificial butter any day - wanna split a case?
Meh, sometimes you’re so stupid. If you let us buy two bottles of the spicy version
or two bottles of the shitty vegan butter crap 
you’d probably sell more. I’d take two spicy but the other kills the deal. Greed kills too.
@uscpsycho But then they’d have to give the shitty vegan butter flavor away in IRKs. And only make half the money on the spicy flavor.
Spicey sez: Git sum anyway!
@mike808 I think now they’ll have to give both away! This company makes a coffee maple syrup, I’d have been down with that. Anything but vegan butter flavor. WTF is that?
¯_(ツ)_/¯
@mike808 @uscpsycho
Perhaps you meant to say “even shittier”?
Why not! I use organic maple syrup to make “Canadian” Old Fashioneds. Kroger brand is close to $6 for 8 oz, so might as well!
Wow, so despite all the scorn, it sold out before noon, with lots of sales in New England states.
@Kyeh Exactly. If you want to know whether the daily Meh is a decent deal, don’t put too much stock in the naysayers in the forums. Look at the quantity sold. Crappy deals sell slowly. Decent deals sell pretty quickly.
But a decent deal is only part of the equation. A good deal on something you don’t want isn’t a good deal. (for you)
I saw the number sold was over 1,100 when I looked at the page today. I bought it immediately.
I plan to use the spicy syrup when I smoke ribs, in lieu of brown sugar. The butter flavor might be used the same way if I don’t like it on my French toast waffles.
@Trinityscrew That sounds good, using it on ribs.
I was tempted but feel a little broke right now with property taxes due.
Got mine today… admiring the Amazon-style packing job.
Meh…why not?
/buy
@PHRoG It worked! Your order number is: regal-alcoholic-respect
/image regal alcoholic respect
/giphy regal-alcoholic-respect
@PHRoG Hmm, that has a little different connotation these days…
@macromeh
/giphy duck!
Expiration date??
@jcpseattle It’s 80% sugar, it can literally never go bad if sealed and refrigerated.
Maple Syrup from NY? Um…No! Plus, adding pepper flavor? This is a true abomination. New England syrup or GTFO. Hippy Freaks.
@Bumplepimp Hey now! There are some pretty fine maple producers in New York STATE. As far as climate and geography are concerned, upstate NY is essentially New England minus the attitude.
But yeah, for any “natural food” product coming out of NY’s nutsack (aka The City)… time to cue up the old Pace Picante ads!
you’re an all-star
@Bumplepimp @Turken I have syrup from a roadside stand in Warsaw, NY. It’s really good.
Welp, In Dallas, without the option of tapping my own trees, this sounds like it will be worth a try. Although the spicy favor does worry me a bit.
Years ago, my In Laws lived in Maine. They sent my Husband a jug or two of Maple Syrup for Christmas. It was Very Good, and Expensive at the time. It had no weird flavors added in. It didn’t need it. We got to see maple syrup being made. It was pretty cool. If I remember correctly, it took 20 gallons to boil down to one, which makes the high cost logical. It was thick and Yummy. I bought a jug at Walmart awhile back, and it was very disappointing. It was thin. Almost like water. What a shock! If this syrup was just syrup w/o any weird crap added in, I would buy it and give as gifts. No way do I need 4 bottles of syrup. So, MEH!
You had me at New York. Does it come with a side of sexual harassment and hidden COVID-death #s?
/giphy wide-ponderous-buffalo
Nooooo it’s barely 9:30 and it’s already gone. Curse time zones!
The spicy maple is for certain spicy. But still good
@kayladnd Like hot pepper spice?
My local Ollie’s had these today, $5 a bottle. Picked up a spicy to give it a try.
Spicy Maple!!
How will it work on a Mac?
@rmeden A Big Mac?
@rmeden It’ll work just fine. The Mac on the other hand…
@rmeden Is Mac into freaky stuff like that?
@kyeh @skrubol @yakkoTDI Interesting… I figured the replies would be about sticky keyboards!
Feh.
/buy
@guybrush01 It worked! Your order number is: tasty-daunting-wool
/image tasty daunting wool
@guybrush01 @mediocrebot but… but… but… wool is not vegan
/buy
@n3uka It worked! Your order number is: quilted-pleasant-crab
/image quilted pleasant crab
/image finicky-snooty-tent
Hard meh.
/giphy dippy-broken-boron
I found I really like spicy coffee and love maple syrup instead of sugar in coffee, so these should be fun
@sarahsandroid It’s been too long since I’ve watched Night Court.
Oh
CANADA 
… err BROOKLYN
Close enough… SOLD 
I’m uncomfortable with how the NY syrup is touching those sausages.
Interesting - ironically from the Michigan Maple Syrup Association (way down the list) website…
@RedOak If Connecticut is listed with 0%, how about Arizona, or Nevada? I’m sure that they can match that percentage!
Meh is selling — well, was selling — something I bought (the spicy variety) from Amazon, at the referenced price (but just one bottle for $14).
Should I be worried?
The spiciness is not very strong, by the way. I was a bit disappointed by that.
Got these this weekend. Spicy is pretty good, has a strong spicy kick.
Specs
Butter Maple
Spicy Maple
What’s in the Box?
Price Comparison
$55.96 at Amazon for 4-Pack ($1.12 per ounce)
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Friday, Sep 17 - Tuesday, Sep 21
/giphy competent-knightly-day
Not a need but a want… mehbe…
/Buy
@Apostlii It worked! Your order number is: slick-famous-oxygen
/image slick famous oxygen
/buy
@OutbackJon It worked! Your order number is: necrotic-shaky-sangria
/image necrotic shaky sangria
/giphy obliging-glamorized-winter
I’d order two butter, no use for spicy syrup. Oh well.
ORDER NUMBER:
attentive-favorable-bandicoot…what is this? The syrup should be good on baked chicken wings and other syrup related food recipes…
No thanks. Tap our own maples, make our own grade A light amber each February, nothing added but the bottles we put it into for family and friends. No natural artificial vegan fake butter or spices. Just pure maple syrup.
@zzootticus
Used to do that years ago when I lived in VT. tapped about 15-20 trees. Also had a neighbor with a small commercial operation that would give me the “dregs” left in his pan at the end of the season. That made some really dark syrup with an incredibly strong flavor. This stuff, in my opinion, is an abomination.
Not in my home. Who comes up with this crap? I assume it’s for the ones who really enjoy “tourist” maple syrup. Living in New England and a former resident of Sugar Maple Country. I fully suggest avoiding this offer. Get the REAL unadulterated Syrup.
/buy
@jml326 It worked! Your order number is: unfortunate-damp-division
/image unfortunate damp division
/giphy clammy-towering-tree
/giphy detrimental-easy-magician
Boiling sap now in my area, abundance of unadulterated pure maple syrup…generally 40 to 1 ratio, sap to syrup…
Here’s my take: if you buy a flavored something that’s flavored with anything but what it’s supposed to be, then you’re buying watered-down cheap sh!t. (See: flavored vodka)
/giphy whats-he-hiding
Was sad I hesitated on these. Would love to know what people think of them!
@customers Hey, how’d you like that maple syrup? We’ve got it up on Meh today if you’re running low, but we’d also love to get your review over in the community.