Safeway Brand Maple Syrup (12.5 fl. oz.)

Item Purchased: Safeway Brand Maple Syrup (12.5 fl. oz.)
Location Purchased: Dominick's / 3145 S. Ashland / Chicago, IL
Price: $6.59 + tax

Review: As far as store brand syrup goes, this is some great stuff. You can taste the maple and not just the sugar as is the case with most of those syrups that come in a plastic bottle.

Although I think this syrup is a bit high priced and not as tasty as some of the other syrups I have purchased and tried in the past (ever been to Vermont or Door County, Wisconsin?), I'm not surprised that Dominick's doesn't offer much else in the way of pure maple choices. The one odd thing I noticed on this bottle's back label was a notice near the top left. First there is a recycling symbol (the one with the three arrows playing tag). Underneath this symbol are the words "Where Facilities Exist."

Where facilities exist? I was brought up in the eighties and reached my teens in the early nineties. Now, we all know that the eighties was the decade of excess, and part of the nineties was spent trying to make up for it by instating recycling programs all over the States. Most of us also know that many of these recycling programs were/are nothing more than charades to make us feel better about our wasteful consumerism. Maybe I'm jaded because I live in Chicago where recycling is just reusing peoples' trash to make landfills and money, but now my syrup bottle has to pound home the harsh realities of the world?

What a cruel world.

I'm gonna go make some pancakes.

Rating: 3.5 / 5

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