Quebec's strategic maple syrup reserve running dry amid high demand
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/72623197
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How do people use that much syrup? I've had one bottle for like 10 years.
I don't really use honey either, lol.
Bee vomit is the best
Distilled tree blood is better
It's my favorite insect vomit! I don't usually mix it with my bacteria poop, though. I did try the bacteria poop made with bee vomit one time, and it wasn't quite what I hoped for. I will have to try different varieties.
Peanut butter and maple sandwiches!
Reading that sentence spiked my blood sugar lol
It's too sweet for me to use as a condiment most of the time but I love it as an ingredient. It's also a fun annual tradition!
Beans???
Dear comrade, have you not heard the good word of maple beans, the heart of a good cabane à sucre menu?
The ones I make are not the most traditional, but I just use tomato sauce (literally just milled and canned tomatoes I can at home, not like a prepared seasoned sauce), maple syrup, mustard powder and salt. It's by eye and to taste but maybe 4 cups of dry beans, 1 L sauce, 1-2 tbsp mustard powder, salt to taste and syrup to taste. I soak the beans and cook in the electric pressure cooker, so I add more water if I think the sauce isn't enough (it typically isn't). I'll add some salt to start, but will add more after it's done and add the syrup once it's done too.
Eta: I'm 3rd gen slavic (I know how insane this sentence is everywhere else in the world but that's how white people talk to each other here sorry) but I moved to eastern ontario a couple of years back and am trying to assimilate lol.
As a 2nd generation Canadian with British Parents, maple beans are just *chef's kiss
I'm definitely trying this, thanks for sharing!
Beans? I'm intrigued.
Shared more info in another comment.
I saw it after I commented, definitely trying it out, thanks!
Lol if anyone ever needs proof that I don't hold grudges on the fedverse, this is proof (I simply do not read usernames I guess 🤷♀️)
Eta: despite it all showing up in my notifications at once I simply did not realize this wasn't two different people lol
They eat different things than you.
🤯
You obviously dont know how to eat breakfast right.
You can use it in place of brown sugar in a lot of recipes and add it on top of most breakfast foods.
I rarely cook with brown sugar and I'm not sure which breakfast foods I'd put it on besides pancakes, waffles, or french toast. But I never really feel like eating those either.
Oatmeal? Guess you don't bake or have kids. Also as should be obvious this only applies to actual maple syrup not a caramel colored corn syrup thing.
I SHOULD try some oatmeal again, it has been a while. No kids and I bake, but it's usually savory things. I replied to another comment, but it's real maple syrup in a glass jug and everything, lol.
Look for the culturally-insensitive label of Canadians, not the culturally-insensitive one of slavery.
For me it replaces white sugar almost everywhere.
Yeah, it's a great sweetener, one of my gotos when balancing flavours (along with salt, lemon juice/vinegar, and soy sauce/mushrooms).
Someone else said brown sugar.
What about powdered sugar?
(As a replacement.)
powdered sugar has a weird effect on me. It always tastes just a little bit like sachharine (too sweet, and goes into the realm of unpleasant)
I use the maple syrup because I live in Quebec where it is somewhat affordable and am T2 diabetic. I cut out most sugar in my life, but coffee is somewhere I am not willing to compromise. I tested the glycemic load of maple sugar on my blood and it was significantly lower than white sugar, so I use that now.
powder is usually for baking stuff, not really a subsitute for normal sugar.
Diabetes and obesity are very common.
Have more pancakes, waffles, French toast, French toast sticks.
..daibetes
Yeah, I really don't... Maybe if I had guests or something.
Edit: I have also eaten all 3 without any syrup and just butter before. 😆
We do breakfast for dinner every other week.
Depending on the grade, even just a spoonful straight everyday lol
You're built different.
Must not be good/real
It's real maple syrup, I just don't use it very often.
Or is a good sweetener for Matcha Lattes.
It was stolen a decade or so ago too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Maple_Syrup_Producers#History_2
There's a decent show about it
It's way past time to run your waffles and pancakes on renewable syrup
I blame climate change.
Well it is climate change. If the spring time is volatile, warm early then cold longer than normal etc... it messes up the sap yields tremendously.
You also need hundreds and hundreds of trees to have a decent production. You cant just plant those further north and have them yielding anything before a very long time.
Yes, there has been a significant change in the political climate.
And "Maple syrup yields depend on weather conditions." from the article.
All farmers complain about the weather, but maple syrup farmers complain the most. They only get a few weeks and the weather has to be perfect. A couple hot days early in the season can screw everything up.
Yes, that's why the reserve exists.
But not why it's low this year:
The association is using this to call for more investment in the industry to meet rising demand.
Last year was actually amazing. Not from the article:
https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/sector/horticulture/reports/statistical-overview-canadian-maple-industry-2025
Climate change impacts it, but that's not what the article is about.
Oh no! What will they drink and use for bath water now?
easy, source it from the canadian high artic/tundra.
Im not sure. Im starting to panic
You can tell the writer had fun with the headline
had to check it wasn’t the Beaverton
I feel like I'm missing the joke 😭 Can someone explain?
They've phrased it like the other various headlines about the world's strategic oil reserves running low due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz
Oooh, okay. Thanks!
I think I'm too close to the story lol. They report on the strength of the season and the strategic reserves every year. It's significant to the local economy. This phrasing is standard, not riffing off other world events.
Some examples:
Global maple syrup shortage forces Quebec to release half its strategic reserve https://globalnews.ca/news/8410985/global-maple-syrup-shortage-forces-quebec-to-release-half-its-strategic-reserve/
Canada's maple syrup reserve hits 16-year low https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68657703
I'm going over the ocean just to say i don't care for their tree sugar juice tabernak