Sweet Gift Set (Meyer Lemon Honey, Vegan Butter Maple Syrup, and Salted Honey)
Meyer Lemon Honey (12.5 oz): Best By: 1/17/24
Vegan Butter Maple Syrup (11.5 oz): Best By: 9/16/23
Salted Honey (12.5 oz): Best By: 12/01/24
From fried chicken to roasted veggies to a piled-high plate of pancakes, this maple syrup and honey three-piece set adds a sweet kick to all your favorite eats
This gift-boxed trio is the edible answer to all those hard-to-buy-for people on your list
I just got the 3 pack today that they had on the 24th. They all just taste like nice quality maple syrup with not much else going on. The coffee one has a bit on a coffee smell and very little coffee taste, the gingerbread one is the strongest but its still pretty faint, and the spicy one has no spice at all as far as I can tell. Thats tasting them straight from the bottle. If you put it on a waffle or something you might not have any idea it was anything other than bog standard maple syrup.
@slipmagt Glad to hear you got your order from the 24th. I got an email yesterday saying that shipping was late along with a $5 coupon… after reading your review hoping they run out and process a refund!
I have the spicy gochujang sriracha in my fridge. Or actually a “super spicy” habanero version. I didn’t realize it was the same company that made the maple syrup!
It’s ok. It tastes like gochujang mixed with sriracha, like it says.
Also speaking of the spicy maple syrup I made some maple cinnamon carrots with it a couple days ago.
@phendrick@werehatrack@awk See below for the bot’s interpretation of carrot jewelry. It’s actually pretty impressive, compared to its rendering of living creatures. Available soon in an Etsy shop near you.
Meh’s buyers have absolutely no idea how many waffles and pancakes they are making me whip up. This is blowing my plans to cut back on the carbs all to heck.
I may have to send them revenge cookies. Macadamia white chip lime chili cookies.
@werehatrack I recently had Hatch Chile chocolate chip cookies. It made me want to try to make a ghost pepper chocolate chip cookie just to see what it’s like.
@werehatrack
I love me some white chocolate macadamia nut cookies, they’re in my top 10 favorites for sure!
I googled the chili lime cookies since I never even heard of them and I came across a yummy sounding recipe for chewy mango crinkle cookies, my gosh they look delicious!
Two years of being a insulin dependent diabetic and my craving for sweets is apparently as out of control as much as my diabetes is! I’m drooling just thinking about these cookies!
Was someone drunk or high when they combined these flavors? I am a purist and like my maple surup straight from the tree then boiled down using the centuries old recipe. End. Of. Story. These combinations, and the Strawberry Jalapeño Hot Sauce on side deal, no thank you. Never. Ever. Sorry meh.
The only one of these that I’ve tried is the Trees Knees Butter Maple, which has the dubious distinction of being literally the only syrup I’ve ever tossed without finishing. Had nine people over eating waffles, and no one tried this more than once. I strongly prefer maple syrup over table syrup, but if given a choice between something like Log Cabin and this, I’d take the Log Cabin every time.
@Kyeh It’s difficult to pin down, which is why it stands out so much in my mind. It’s not so much that it was bad as it was just kinda nothing… Like, maple syrup is a pretty strong/distinctive flavor, right? And table syrups have their own pretty strong/distinctive flavors. It didn’t taste maple-y enough to please the folks who preferred maple syrup, and it didn’t have enough of that artificial table syrup taste to please the folks who preferred that. The way it tasted is how I would imagine something like a 3:1:1 mix of dark corn syrup, maple syrup, and table syrup would taste.
@Aspirant_Fool@Kyeh best way to describe it, I think, is that it’s like the syrup version of La Croix sparkling water.
It’s flavored by capturing and condescending steam from cooking the various things they use to flavor them; then adding that to the water for the drink. Nothing else, no other additives or artificial flavors/sweeteners.
This results is a very mild flavor that’s distinctly there, but, fades rather quickly too.
So far I’ve tried all of them Meh has offered and none of them were bad at all. They all tasted like quality real maple syrup with very mild additional flavors that fade quickly.
The butter one has a mild, but, authentic, butter flavor that’s a smidge salty that quickly fades giving way to the delightful real maple flavor.
Personally, I like it! It doesn’t overpower the maple flavor at all…it just succinctly accents it for a short while for a little bit of a different experience as opposed to [insert desired flavor] sweetend syrup water.
@Aspirant_Fool@PHRoG Hmmm, thanks. I like La Croix water, so maybe I’ll like these. I’m still waiting for the ones I ordered from the last sale, though, so not going to buy more.
@Aspirant_Fool@Kyeh@PHRoG you made it sound like it had flavor other than sugar. It had no maple flavor. Try some dark Vermont maple and you won’t go back. Get some from as far north as you can. And the good dark amber stuff. Not extra fancy. Gives it a good woody flavor that is distinctly maple and not just sugar.
@Aspirant_Fool@Kyeh@PHRoG@sohmageek «On the topic of « real, dark » or “real dark » Maple, yes, when traveling in the far NorthEast including Canada, the local Grade B dark was my favorite.
You’d think Grade A would be better but remember Maple syrup was originally a default sweetener when imported sugar was not readily available, and as I understand it, it Grade A was supposed to be more of a fine sweetness without excessive Mapely-characteristics. So I decided, « To taste the tree, try Grade B »
UPDATE but I did order a set of Spicy from here just for fun.
@Kyeh@PHRoG@pmarin@sohmageek This is no longer the case, fortunately; Now you get a separate scale for color/flavor in addition to the grade, so everything you’re going to find for sale is ‘Grade A’, and then additionally it might be ‘Golden’, ‘Medium Amber’, ‘Dark Amber’, all the way down to ‘Very Dark’.
I recently found a local beekeeper that makes his own hot honey. It comes with seven types of peppers in it. It’s outstanding, but I feel the need to compare it to this just to see what other hot honey is out there in the world.
I couldn’t convince myself to get three syrups, or two srirachas. I’ve kind of been burned buying large quantities of different food stuff here. But a honey, a syrup, and a Sriracha? They’re all different. It’s a great idea, right?
This product always reminds me of this old Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour Restaurant menu Wednesday dinner offering of Bee’s Knees and Mosquito Knuckles Sauteed in Vinegar." Yum?
@heartny@lisagd@stolicat
IDK… kind of like the diluted water / dehydrated water listing. And I notice it must be a Catholic company because Fridays are “fish” day!
@chienfou@heartny@lisagd@stolicat I remember Farrels from the 1970s as a kid, it was very fun. It was like a destination you’d make your parents drive you to.
I think in those days the « fish on Friday » thing was much more widespread even though it was not an intensely Catholic area. (it was the heathen West Coast, after all…). I always thought it was silly, personally. Though I do like fish and even did then.
@chienfou@heartny@pmarin@stolicat Here in MD (which was founded by Catholics), schools would have fish as one of the choices on Fridays, but we Protestants only had to eat fish on Good Friday.
@heartny@lisagd@pmarin@stolicat
To this day, here deep in the bible belt, the hospital I work at serves fish on Friday… Not really sure why that is, but it’s been that way for over 30 yrs I know. May have been one of the long gone dietary directors had catholic proclivities, no one really knows.
That being said, they serve an AWESOME (cue 'bot) catfish filet, fried or grilled, for lunch. One of the best meals they cook actually.
@chienfou@heartny@lisagd@pmarin Growing up Protestant in the Midwest, seemed like everyone else we knew was Catholic, as it was we always had fish on all Fridays. In Wisconsin we’d go to one of the supper clubs for All-You-Can-Eat Friday Fish Fries.
Fun Fact - almost all of the lake perch, walleye, cod and whitefish used in Midwestern Fish Fries is from Canadien side of Lake Huron.
@chienfou@heartny@pmarin@stolicat I like catfish. My uncle used to have a farm with a pond that had been dug and stocked with catfish. My cousin and I used to fish there when I visited. We’d catch 15-18" ones all the time, and my poor grandmother had to clean and cook them.
The problem was, when they dug the pond, they only left about 3’ of “beach,” and we had to climb down a close to 6’ dirt cliff to get to it. It’s really hard to grab the jaw of a catfish that’s flopping around, hold on as it bites you, and throw it up the cliff onto land (I’m 5’ tall and my cousin might not have even been that tall) without it falling back down into the pond. Those were such fun days. Seriously. I’d like to go fishing again, but I don’t want to buy all the equipment to use once or twice.
This “maple” again? It tastes weak like corn syrup not maple. There was no maple flavor at all. Tasted similar to the fake syrup in the store.
Save your money and get a real good maple syrup if you want maple syrup or get the cheap stuff in the store it tastes the same as this stuff.
I’m interested in these as a bread-making ingredient, but the only maple syrup users in my house are my little kiddos, and they haven’t pissed me off enough to give them spicy maple syrup…yet.
The spicy honey and spicy maple syrup are going to be a delightful surprise gift for my partner, they love weird spicy stuff! And also don’t believe in expiration dates!
Oh wait everybody in the comments says the syrup is really bad hmmmmm
@impressionist the spicy maple syrup is not bad at all. It’s decent syrup (I’m no syrup connoisseur) with a little spicy kick to it. It was good enough for me to want to try their hot honey and Sriracha.
@uvassassin
OMG, this reminds me of a stop-motion video I did for a Sr High film class back in late 1972. I think we used an Emerson, Lake & Palmer tune (Hoe Down?) for the sound track.
It featured 2 seated ‘actors’ having a drag race down the front 1/4 mile long hall of the school. As they passed a corner a ‘police officer’ fell in and gave pursuit. We cut thru a bunch of classrooms, the cafeteria, up and down stairs and at one point one of drag racers turns into a bathroom only to make a quick reversal when he notices it’s the female restroom. Spin outs and spectacular crashes abounded. Shot it all after school while the school building was relatively empty. Ended up about 4 minutes long, which required a BUNCH of scooting along on our butts and taking frame after frame – somewhere well over 4 thousand I believe while having to keep the camera on a tripod and trying not to jostle it. Zoom shots were a nightmare.
God I wish I still had a copy of that project!
@chienfou@uvassassin That’s great! Stop-motion is hard. I did a film as part of an after-school program with some friends in middle school probably same year as you. We only did a few seconds of stop action for some special effects. The film “starred” me as a kid finding a wand, becoming a crazed magician, and turning my friends into milk cartons. Some I tossed into a trash can where they reconstituted a few seconds later. Another one, still a milk carton, skitted across the ground in pursuit of me (the stop action part). As my friends chased me, I dove into the back of a VW Beetle and they all followed. We kept stopping the camera, changing clothes (hats and jackets anyway) and restarting to make it look like about 40 people entering the Beetle. Then the opposite door flew open, I ran out followed by 40 people, using the same film, stop, change, film trick. We didn’t have music and purposely formatted it to look like an old silent movie.
For the most part, the special effects worked great - except we hadn’t accounted that the sun angle and lighting would change as we did all the starting, stopping and changing for the VW scene. Lesson learned, but that fail in the special effects made it even funnier. I also sure wish I had a copy of that film!
@bkcmom or, if, like a normal grocery product with no real ‘rapidly degrading or dangerous’ ingredients, it’s actually good for months/years after the profit-motivated ‘throw away and buy a new one’ date. It has infected our culture. Like the ‘expired,expired’ anoying aunt on the TV ad.
A sealed product made almost entirely of sugars, maybe some salt, no degradable oils, should be fine for much longer than the silly date.
@806D2701@troy
plus, presumably there is a window on either side of the BB date since there is no way for the maple syrup to tell the date… In my experience (as mentioned earlier) non-oil based products fare much better than the dates indicate. How you store it at home is at least as important…
down for one of each! I’ll make some crazy confections out of it. I’m also considering that hot sauce as I think it would make for an amazing cocktail!
@vodyanoi Although there have been many reports of the discovery of ancient Greek, Roman, and other very old jars of honey which was characterized as “still edible”, that does not equate to “still palatable”. Personally, my experience has been that one is wise to have no more honey on hand that can be finished in five years. At that point, it’s likely to be dark, off a bit on the flavor, and starting to crystallize.
I’m just now trying the Gochujang Sriracha that I got on Sidedeal. I like it - it’s got a nice flavor, a little sweet, definite curry taste, not very hot. I wouldn’t buy it again at their original asking price, though ($12/bottle. I paid $12 for 2 bottles.)
Specs
Product: Bushwick Threes Knees Sweet or Spicy Gift Sets
Model: BK00334, BDBUN-MLSTBM-03-000-QVCXXX
Condition: New
Spicy Gift Set (Spicy Honey, Gochujang Sriracha, and Spicy Maple)
Sweet Gift Set (Meyer Lemon Honey, Vegan Butter Maple Syrup, and Salted Honey)
What’s Included?
OR
Price Comparison
Spicy: $49.99 at Amazon
Sweet: $56.70 at QVC
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Sep 18 - Tuesday, Sep 19
More fancy shampoo?!
@yakkoTDI don’t have dandruff, have delicious tasting hair.
@yakkoTDI for your bush and your wick
@yakkoTDI One is “No more tears” and the other is “No more eyes”.
/showme bees knees
@heartny Wow, it can’t even get bees right.
Been staring at this a while and I’m still not 100% sure if it’s food or soap.
I hope when they harvest the bee’s knees they give the bees little prosthetic legs so they can still dance around the hive.
@OnionSoup
Your comment immediately made me think of this cartoon.
@chienfou @OnionSoup Yes, that would be tragic if they couldn’t waggle! This isn’t quite it, but as usual, giphy is falling short.
I just got the 3 pack today that they had on the 24th. They all just taste like nice quality maple syrup with not much else going on. The coffee one has a bit on a coffee smell and very little coffee taste, the gingerbread one is the strongest but its still pretty faint, and the spicy one has no spice at all as far as I can tell. Thats tasting them straight from the bottle. If you put it on a waffle or something you might not have any idea it was anything other than bog standard maple syrup.
@slipmagt are you a plant
@chiefbugbung I gave a mediocre review and you think I’m a plant?
@chiefbugbung @slipmagt Maybe you want to force the price point lower by dissuading people from buying these…
/giphy hmmmm
@brainmist @chiefbugbung @slipmagt Or, maybe he just thinks you’re a ficus…?
@slipmagt Glad to hear you got your order from the 24th. I got an email yesterday saying that shipping was late along with a $5 coupon… after reading your review hoping they run out and process a refund!
I have the spicy gochujang sriracha in my fridge. Or actually a “super spicy” habanero version. I didn’t realize it was the same company that made the maple syrup!
It’s ok. It tastes like gochujang mixed with sriracha, like it says.
Also speaking of the spicy maple syrup I made some maple cinnamon carrots with it a couple days ago.
@awk How do you make a carrot?
(Inquiring rabbit minds want to know.)
@phendrick Dunno, ask a jeweler.
@phendrick Drive it around in Detroit in January. Or were you talking about a vegetable?
@awk @phendrick
@phendrick @werehatrack He ran out of space.
@phendrick @werehatrack @awk See below for the bot’s interpretation of carrot jewelry. It’s actually pretty impressive, compared to its rendering of living creatures. Available soon in an Etsy shop near you.
pffft… why not
Cheap enough to try the sweet pack.
/giphy popular-wiry-caper
@RogerWilco Very on-trend gif!
I don’t kneed any more weird food to fill the shelf.
Meh’s buyers have absolutely no idea how many waffles and pancakes they are making me whip up. This is blowing my plans to cut back on the carbs all to heck.
I may have to send them revenge cookies. Macadamia white chip lime chili cookies.
@werehatrack I’m still recovering from the poop waffles from years ago
@werehatrack With some TrackRs inside?
(I mean, if you want revenge.)
@werehatrack that sounds like delicious revenge!
@werehatrack I recently had Hatch Chile chocolate chip cookies. It made me want to try to make a ghost pepper chocolate chip cookie just to see what it’s like.
@werehatrack
I’m drooling just thinking about these cookies! 
I love me some white chocolate macadamia nut cookies, they’re in my top 10 favorites for sure!
I googled the chili lime cookies since I never even heard of them and I came across a yummy sounding recipe for chewy mango crinkle cookies, my gosh they look delicious!
Two years of being a insulin dependent diabetic and my craving for sweets is apparently as out of control as much as my diabetes is!
https://whattocooktoday.com/mango-crinkle-cookies.html
@phendrick @werehatrack Tollhouse TrackR Chip cookies, my favorite!
@Lynnerizer Ahhhh, comrade…I share your pain!!
I absolutely shouldn’t have ordered any of this wonderful, insulin-murdering, poison…but, I’m weak.
/giphy regrets
Was someone drunk or high when they combined these flavors? I am a purist and like my maple surup straight from the tree then boiled down using the centuries old recipe. End. Of. Story. These combinations, and the Strawberry Jalapeño Hot Sauce on side deal, no thank you. Never. Ever. Sorry meh.
@Kidsandliz I don’t know that I’ve had strawberry jalapeno, but raspberry jalapeno is amazing as jelly on cream cheese and toast, and as beer.
@brainmist @Kidsandliz a local bagel shop carries raspberry jalapeno cream cheese. Absolutely fantastic!
@brainmist @Jonas4321 I’ll take my strawberry and raspberry plain as nature intended thank you very much.
@brainmist @Jonas4321 @Kidsandliz I’ll take my strawberries and jalapeños together as nature intended. Who needs this “hot sauce” nonsense?
Goddamnit!!!
Totally do. not. need. But, MUST HAVE.
sigh, in for 1 of each.
/giphy yielding-ethereal-afternoon
The only one of these that I’ve tried is the Trees Knees Butter Maple, which has the dubious distinction of being literally the only syrup I’ve ever tossed without finishing. Had nine people over eating waffles, and no one tried this more than once. I strongly prefer maple syrup over table syrup, but if given a choice between something like Log Cabin and this, I’d take the Log Cabin every time.
@Aspirant_Fool What was wrong with it? Did it have an artificial taste?
@Kyeh It’s difficult to pin down, which is why it stands out so much in my mind. It’s not so much that it was bad as it was just kinda nothing… Like, maple syrup is a pretty strong/distinctive flavor, right? And table syrups have their own pretty strong/distinctive flavors. It didn’t taste maple-y enough to please the folks who preferred maple syrup, and it didn’t have enough of that artificial table syrup taste to please the folks who preferred that. The way it tasted is how I would imagine something like a 3:1:1 mix of dark corn syrup, maple syrup, and table syrup would taste.
@Aspirant_Fool Huh - so just generic sweetness, kind of?
Thanks for the description.
@Aspirant_Fool @Kyeh best way to describe it, I think, is that it’s like the syrup version of La Croix sparkling water.
It’s flavored by capturing and condescending steam from cooking the various things they use to flavor them; then adding that to the water for the drink. Nothing else, no other additives or artificial flavors/sweeteners.
This results is a very mild flavor that’s distinctly there, but, fades rather quickly too.
So far I’ve tried all of them Meh has offered and none of them were bad at all. They all tasted like quality real maple syrup with very mild additional flavors that fade quickly.
The butter one has a mild, but, authentic, butter flavor that’s a smidge salty that quickly fades giving way to the delightful real maple flavor.
Personally, I like it! It doesn’t overpower the maple flavor at all…it just succinctly accents it for a short while for a little bit of a different experience as opposed to [insert desired flavor] sweetend syrup water.
@Aspirant_Fool @PHRoG Hmmm, thanks. I like La Croix water, so maybe I’ll like these. I’m still waiting for the ones I ordered from the last sale, though, so not going to buy more.
@Aspirant_Fool @Kyeh @PHRoG I like it when my syrup is condescending
@Aspirant_Fool @Kyeh @PHRoG you made it sound like it had flavor other than sugar. It had no maple flavor. Try some dark Vermont maple and you won’t go back. Get some from as far north as you can. And the good dark amber stuff. Not extra fancy. Gives it a good woody flavor that is distinctly maple and not just sugar.
@Aspirant_Fool @Kyeh @PHRoG @sohmageek «On the topic of « real, dark » or “real dark » Maple, yes, when traveling in the far NorthEast including Canada, the local Grade B dark was my favorite.
You’d think Grade A would be better but remember Maple syrup was originally a default sweetener when imported sugar was not readily available, and as I understand it, it Grade A was supposed to be more of a fine sweetness without excessive Mapely-characteristics. So I decided, « To taste the tree, try Grade B »
UPDATE but I did order a set of Spicy from here just for fun.
@Aspirant_Fool @Kyeh @sohmageek to be fair dark Vs amber, isn’t a fair comparison.
Of course dark is going to have a much stronger maple flavor…which, is awesome, if that’s what you’re after.
This isn’t fake sugar water syrup…it’s real maple syrup.
Personally, I prefer mild when it comes to real maple syrup…for me, dark overpowers anything I put it on and it all just tastes like maple
.
OWLS! TOWELS! JOWLS! AWESOME!
@Kyeh @PHRoG @pmarin @sohmageek This is no longer the case, fortunately; Now you get a separate scale for color/flavor in addition to the grade, so everything you’re going to find for sale is ‘Grade A’, and then additionally it might be ‘Golden’, ‘Medium Amber’, ‘Dark Amber’, all the way down to ‘Very Dark’.
@Aspirant_Fool @Kyeh @PHRoG @pmarin dark Amber/very dark or bust!
I recently found a local beekeeper that makes his own hot honey. It comes with seven types of peppers in it. It’s outstanding, but I feel the need to compare it to this just to see what other hot honey is out there in the world.
I couldn’t convince myself to get three syrups, or two srirachas. I’ve kind of been burned buying large quantities of different food stuff here. But a honey, a syrup, and a Sriracha? They’re all different. It’s a great idea, right?
Thanks for enabling me, Meh!
@djslack does this person ship said miraculous 7 pepper honey?
If not, will you?
/giphy please
This product always reminds me of this old Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour Restaurant menu Wednesday dinner offering of Bee’s Knees and Mosquito Knuckles Sauteed in Vinegar." Yum?
@heartny
“Aroma of Empty Custard Pie Plate” was my favorite from these menus.
@heartny @stolicat Three ounces prune juice, gargle only cracks me up.
@heartny @lisagd @stolicat
IDK… kind of like the diluted water / dehydrated water listing. And I notice it must be a Catholic company because Fridays are “fish” day!
@chienfou @heartny @lisagd @stolicat I remember Farrels from the 1970s as a kid, it was very fun. It was like a destination you’d make your parents drive you to.
I think in those days the « fish on Friday » thing was much more widespread even though it was not an intensely Catholic area. (it was the heathen West Coast, after all…). I always thought it was silly, personally. Though I do like fish and even did then.
@chienfou @heartny @stolicat I noticed the fish thing, too.
@chienfou @heartny @pmarin @stolicat Here in MD (which was founded by Catholics), schools would have fish as one of the choices on Fridays, but we Protestants only had to eat fish on Good Friday.
@heartny @lisagd @pmarin @stolicat
To this day, here deep in the bible belt, the hospital I work at serves fish on Friday… Not really sure why that is, but it’s been that way for over 30 yrs I know. May have been one of the long gone dietary directors had catholic proclivities, no one really knows.
That being said, they serve an AWESOME (cue 'bot) catfish filet, fried or grilled, for lunch. One of the best meals they cook actually.
LEGOS! EGGOS! STRATEGO! AWESOME!
@chienfou @heartny @lisagd @pmarin Growing up Protestant in the Midwest, seemed like everyone else we knew was Catholic, as it was we always had fish on all Fridays. In Wisconsin we’d go to one of the supper clubs for All-You-Can-Eat Friday Fish Fries.
Fun Fact - almost all of the lake perch, walleye, cod and whitefish used in Midwestern Fish Fries is from Canadien side of Lake Huron.
@chienfou @heartny @pmarin @stolicat I like catfish. My uncle used to have a farm with a pond that had been dug and stocked with catfish. My cousin and I used to fish there when I visited. We’d catch 15-18" ones all the time, and my poor grandmother had to clean and cook them.
The problem was, when they dug the pond, they only left about 3’ of “beach,” and we had to climb down a close to 6’ dirt cliff to get to it. It’s really hard to grab the jaw of a catfish that’s flopping around, hold on as it bites you, and throw it up the cliff onto land (I’m 5’ tall and my cousin might not have even been that tall) without it falling back down into the pond. Those were such fun days. Seriously. I’d like to go fishing again, but I don’t want to buy all the equipment to use once or twice.
I love honey but honestly after you try local stuff from the farmers market you will never go back.
/showme condescending syrup
@mediocrebot This is not a good quality “AI-generated Image”, but GIGO I guess
/showme jewelry made from carrots
Dammit, bot, what kind of computer does asymmetry?!
@ircon96 Hey, Asymmetric Multiprocessing was my bread-and-butter for the last 20 years of my career!
@ircon96
One that doesn’t slow high-priority threads to a crawl by incessantly swapping to low-priority ones? IOW, any computer that does multitasking well?
@mediocrebot This image is pretty good.
This “maple” again? It tastes weak like corn syrup not maple. There was no maple flavor at all. Tasted similar to the fake syrup in the store.
Save your money and get a real good maple syrup if you want maple syrup or get the cheap stuff in the store it tastes the same as this stuff.
I’m interested in these as a bread-making ingredient, but the only maple syrup users in my house are my little kiddos, and they haven’t pissed me off enough to give them spicy maple syrup…yet.
@wickhameh gasp, that’s why I bought it too!
@heyitslauren @wickhameh
I love it. You are my kind of parents!
The spicy honey and spicy maple syrup are going to be a delightful surprise gift for my partner, they love weird spicy stuff! And also don’t believe in expiration dates!
Oh wait everybody in the comments says the syrup is really bad hmmmmm
@impressionist the spicy maple syrup is not bad at all. It’s decent syrup (I’m no syrup connoisseur) with a little spicy kick to it. It was good enough for me to want to try their hot honey and Sriracha.
Knees weak, bees spatreesy
oh I should have said spaghettree
@agnesnutter we were in Italy for the harvest once …
@agnesnutter @stolicat Is that the Swiss harvest?
In for both.
/Showme bountiful-hilarious-jeans
/giphy bountiful-hilarious-jeans
@uvassassin
OMG, this reminds me of a stop-motion video I did for a Sr High film class back in late 1972. I think we used an Emerson, Lake & Palmer tune (Hoe Down?) for the sound track.
It featured 2 seated ‘actors’ having a drag race down the front 1/4 mile long hall of the school. As they passed a corner a ‘police officer’ fell in and gave pursuit. We cut thru a bunch of classrooms, the cafeteria, up and down stairs and at one point one of drag racers turns into a bathroom only to make a quick reversal when he notices it’s the female restroom. Spin outs and spectacular crashes abounded. Shot it all after school while the school building was relatively empty. Ended up about 4 minutes long, which required a BUNCH of scooting along on our butts and taking frame after frame – somewhere well over 4 thousand I believe while having to keep the camera on a tripod and trying not to jostle it. Zoom shots were a nightmare.
God I wish I still had a copy of that project!
@chienfou @uvassassin That’s great! Stop-motion is hard. I did a film as part of an after-school program with some friends in middle school probably same year as you. We only did a few seconds of stop action for some special effects. The film “starred” me as a kid finding a wand, becoming a crazed magician, and turning my friends into milk cartons. Some I tossed into a trash can where they reconstituted a few seconds later. Another one, still a milk carton, skitted across the ground in pursuit of me (the stop action part). As my friends chased me, I dove into the back of a VW Beetle and they all followed. We kept stopping the camera, changing clothes (hats and jackets anyway) and restarting to make it look like about 40 people entering the Beetle. Then the opposite door flew open, I ran out followed by 40 people, using the same film, stop, change, film trick. We didn’t have music and purposely formatted it to look like an old silent movie.
For the most part, the special effects worked great - except we hadn’t accounted that the sun angle and lighting would change as we did all the starting, stopping and changing for the VW scene. Lesson learned, but that fail in the special effects made it even funnier. I also sure wish I had a copy of that film!
Buying something that expires in a few days from receiving doesn’t make sense to me unless it’s rock bottom price.
@bkcmom or, if, like a normal grocery product with no real ‘rapidly degrading or dangerous’ ingredients, it’s actually good for months/years after the profit-motivated ‘throw away and buy a new one’ date. It has infected our culture. Like the ‘expired,expired’ anoying aunt on the TV ad.
A sealed product made almost entirely of sugars, maybe some salt, no degradable oils, should be fine for much longer than the silly date.
@bkcmom not “expires” – “best by.” There’s a difference
Buying something that is definitely not at its best doesn’t make sense to me unless it’s rock bottom price.
@806D2701 That’s better. But it is $15 and not $57, so I’m not sure how much more rock bottom we can get
@806D2701 @troy
plus, presumably there is a window on either side of the BB date since there is no way for the maple syrup to tell the date… In my experience (as mentioned earlier) non-oil based products fare much better than the dates indicate. How you store it at home is at least as important…
@bkcmom @pmarin a friend in the army once told me he learned ‘there’s no such thing as an expiration date’. idk what that means but I believe him.
@bkcmom honey doesn’t expire unless it’s contaminated
/giphy blighted tart drug
down for one of each! I’ll make some crazy confections out of it. I’m also considering that hot sauce as I think it would make for an amazing cocktail!
@sillyheathen Pictures please.
Does honey ever go bad?
@vodyanoi Although there have been many reports of the discovery of ancient Greek, Roman, and other very old jars of honey which was characterized as “still edible”, that does not equate to “still palatable”. Personally, my experience has been that one is wise to have no more honey on hand that can be finished in five years. At that point, it’s likely to be dark, off a bit on the flavor, and starting to crystallize.
I’m just now trying the Gochujang Sriracha that I got on Sidedeal. I like it - it’s got a nice flavor, a little sweet, definite curry taste, not very hot. I wouldn’t buy it again at their original asking price, though ($12/bottle. I paid $12 for 2 bottles.)