So, $10/pint? Not counting the energy cost?
While apple syrup is interesting, I’m not seeing how that’s a better deal. 
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Dunno… I’d think twice about suggesting prominent women in leadership positions identify themselves with any colonial “mammy” iconography, ironically or otherwise…
That’s… Some pretty negatively loaded symbolism open to some really bad reads
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No, fresh cider only, the sugars ferment out in hard cider.
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Math: fresh sweet cider is cheap: less than $1/gallon in bulk wholesale at the factory when they’re at peak production – bring your own containers. Boiling it down costs a bit of energy, so rounding up that’s 1 gallon per pint, and 2 pints per quart, and 4 quarts per gallon, so 8 gallons to make one gallon of syrup, rounding up to $10/gallon to include a couple of bucks of energy. My apologies for any confusion.
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… now I’m imagining Kissinger, Cheney, and Stein together in some kind of horrible war-criminal nursing-home sitcom 
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Don’t forget Stone too.
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What would be the antithesis of the “Golden Girls?”
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POSSIBLE TITLE: “The Evil That Men Do"
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I can’t say I’m surprised!
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Well it does now, since foreign competition has resulted in our domestic trees going dangerously untapped. A true tragedy.
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I have seen the one in Santa Barbara and was kinda stunned it had still existed. They recently changed their name to Chad’s.
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Jokes aside, the US maple syrup industry is really facing a tough future. You need a certain set of weather conditions to produce a good syrup yield (freezing nights, warmer days) at the right time. The southern range of the sugar maple sap production, like northern Ohio, are already starting to dry up. When I was a kid the maple syrup production was stable enough to be a reliable grade school field trip, but a lot of the trees just aren’t producing anymore.
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Tangentially related:
When Disneyland first opened you could meet “Aunt Jemima” in person at the pancake house (yeah, she was literally a character like Mickey or Goofy), and also meet the Fritos Kid at the House of Fritos, which was next door in the same building before being relocated to what’s now the Rancho Del Zocalo restaurant. But I don’t know if the Frito Bandito had a presence.
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I’m sure that’s true and that climate change is going to pose a major challenge but overall US maple syrup production has been at record highs in recent years.
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Weirdly, I do. Several times a year…
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The only thing that Ben Stein has ever contributed to society or culture is saying Bueller over and over again.
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I’d watch that.
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