Can we talk about how pancake syrup used to just be corn syrup?

I was looking at a bottle of "maple flavored syrup" at the store yesterday and noticed the ingredients list is like 15 items now. Found an old recipe online from the 1950s that was literally just corn syrup and artificial maple flavor. That's it. It surprised me because I always figured there was more to it. Has anyone else noticed food labels getting way more complicated over the years?

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susan42416d ago

My grandma used to keep a bottle of that old school syrup in her pantry for years, it was basically just corn syrup and she swore nothing else tasted right on pancakes. She would get so annoyed when the fancy stuff with real maple syrup started showing up everywhere, said it was too thin and runny. Funny how something that simple used to be the standard and now you need a chemistry degree just to read the back of the bottle.

christopher_kim16d ago

My buddy Mike once left a bottle of that stuff in his trunk for three years and it looked the same as the day he bought it.