14 June 2009

Tricked!


Doesn't this maple syrup look like a healthier, better for you, version of syrup?


I mean, look - there are woods in the drawing on the label and maple syrup comes from trees - right? And this company has been making this sticky stuff since 1889. Shouldn't that imply quality?


Yeah, at least that's what I thought when I saw it on the shelf at my local grocery store.


At breakfast I was reading the back label, something I should have done at the store I guess, and realized that it was just normal old-full-of-high-fructose-corn-syrup syrup. Shucks!


I was tricked by a nice label.


6 comments:

  1. And these first mentioned thoughts were probably exactly what this label meant to imply to the grocery shopper! ;-)

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  2. we use the sugar free version of bodenberry's and it's pretty tasty...

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  3. I like cake. Cake makes me happy. People say I'm happy all the time.

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  4. Jody - you make me laugh. A lot.

    Sarah - sugar free syrup? Isn't the point of syrup to add more sugar to the already sweet pancakes???

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  5. The color is too dark though. Was the bottle plastic or glass? If it was glass, I would have been fooled as well;)

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  6. Oh - the glass bottle. You're totally right - glass is always a dead give away!!

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