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    Default More fake maple

    Saw this syrup at the store this evening for sale. Almost looks like the real thing at a quick glance. I bet many people are fooled thinking this is the real stuff

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    This is really scamming and fraud. Consumers are totally fooled by this labeling. When I see this junk and someone buyibg it I try in very simple terms to explain tgey're buying sugar water. People are amazed,amused,mad,don't believe me,etc. Ignorance really is bliss.
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    We had to visit family in Massachusetts for a funeral recently and stayed at a hotel. While at breakfast my son (8) was pouring the small plastic container of so called maple syrup. It came out and it had a bead texture like water on a freshly waxed car or like an oil residue. I remained quiet and after his first bite his face squinched and he asked

    Pop is this real syrup?
    I don’t know bud what do you think?
    Ugh no it tastes like oily corn with maple flavor.

    Needless to say the market is more flooded with imitation than real.


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    It says maple flavored not real. that is the giveaway

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mead Maple View Post
    Ugh no it tastes like oily corn with maple flavor.
    Well trained....good job.
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    You cant be mad at the producer. They say exactly what it is. I feal bad for the people who are to lazy to read. That's all it is laziness.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Woody77 View Post
    You cant be mad at the producer. They say exactly what it is. I feal bad for the people who are to lazy to read. That's all it is laziness.
    amen. people dont read what they put in their bodies
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    I believe in Ontario that would be illegal - can't say maple flavoured unless it actually has real maple in it, and then you need to say what percentage.
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