I don't know about LA, but it's perfectly possible to get Canadian maple syrup around here, although there's more than a few maple sugar farmers in the area who will mutter and shoot you sharp glances, and might even go so far as to drive past when you put your pickup in the ditch.
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Mar 12, 2006 6:59:39 am PST #3469 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Jesse - Mar 12, 2006 7:00:54 am PST #3470 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Now I want pastry or waffles or pancakes or something! I wonder if I could actually take my laptop to a restaurant and get work done. It's the getting work done part I'm wondering about.
Jessica - Mar 12, 2006 7:00:56 am PST #3471 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I don't know about LA, but it's perfectly possible to get Canadian maple syrup around here
I was gonna say the same thing. (Except for the maple sugar farmers, which we don't really have in NYC grocery stores.)
§ ita § - Mar 12, 2006 7:01:01 am PST #3472 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm gonna go teach, watch some of the black belt test, maybe, run errands, go back and watch some more of the test, and then go to The Hump with Colin.
tommyrot - Mar 12, 2006 7:01:27 am PST #3473 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Is maple syrup produced in places other than the US and Canada?
§ ita § - Mar 12, 2006 7:02:16 am PST #3474 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Canadian maple syrup is sufficiently expensive here that my snobbery balks at it. I don't buy Blue Mountain here either, no matter how much I want it.
Spidra Webster - Mar 12, 2006 7:03:53 am PST #3475 of 10001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Now I want pastry or waffles or pancakes or something!
Me too. Damn all you buffistas who can eat sugar and starch with impunity. ::shakes fist impotently::
Jessica - Mar 12, 2006 7:05:27 am PST #3476 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Is maple syrup produced in places other than the US and Canada?
I'm pretty sure sugar maples are a solely North American crop, but I could be wrong.
[eta: Maple Facts agrees:
The sugar maple (acer saccharum) is a slow growing hard wood tree. It can reach heights of 130 feet or more and live to be very old. Often times the truck of an old maple can be three or more feet in diameter. A tree this size, however, is extremely old. To place a single tap on a maple tree, the trunk must be at least 12 inches in diameter, a size taking 40 years for the tree to reach. Sugar maples are only found in one area of the world. This ranges from Southeast Canada, down into the Northeastern United States. Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Maine, and as far west as Ohio all have sugar maples.
This is the only part of the world which has proper conditions for this tree though, and is therefore the only part of the world that can produce maple syrup. ]
Sue - Mar 12, 2006 7:07:28 am PST #3477 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Mmmm, custard and almond tart.
It's so nice out that I'm going to leave the housecleaning I was supposed to do today for tonight and go outside. Got to enjoy the good weather while I can!
Lee - Mar 12, 2006 7:10:17 am PST #3478 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
and then go to The Hump with Colin.
hmph.