I'm Going To Canada

[evay]

Originally Posted by PointyHairedJedi

Maverick: I fully expect every single shop in Canada to stock nothing but maple syrup, so naturally I would like nothing more than to visit a mall full of shops that sell maple syrup! I mean, it's my understanding that Canadians have evolved into a kind of tree-vampire, so it makes sense that their shops wouldn't sell anything else.

You can do that in Vermont, too. Maple syrup, maple sugar, maple candies of varying degrees of hardness, maple butter, maple syrup cookbooks, and so on. The main difference is that Vermont comes with a side of blueberries, and in Canada I think it's poutine.

[PointyHairedJedi]

Originally Posted by evay

You can do that in Vermont, too. Maple syrup, maple sugar, maple candies of varying degrees of hardness, maple butter, maple syrup cookbooks, and so on. The main difference is that Vermont comes with a side of blueberries, and in Canada I think it's poutine.

Mmm, sounds... delicious.

So the cookbooks themselves are made of maple syrup? Are they not in consequence a bit runny?

[evay]

Originally Posted by PointyHairedJedi

So the cookbooks themselves are made of maple syrup? Are they not in consequence a bit runny?

The words are printed in that edible gold-leaf stuff and the pages are refrigerated almost to the point of freezing. That allows you just enough time to read and make the recipe before it defrosts and you pour the syrup over whatever you made. It's a very new concept in biodegradables. Vermont is a pioneer in green technology like that.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

Obviously I understand; ordinarily I realise I'd pretty much be like visiting royalty, but William & Kate have ruined that for me at least for the next year or two.

I left Ottawa for a weekend specifically to avoid those two and their accompanying circus.

How's the visit going so far?