Where did they get their plastic pipe? :-)
Chuck Norcutt
richard mcgrath wrote:
> ...here too. The Canadians don't have a monopoly on high(ish) tech
> sugaring. American Indians were doing it before either French or English
> arrived...or so the story goes.
> Richard
>
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>> ...ever been to a maple syrup production facility in Quebec or Nova Scotia
> ?
>> The last one I went to in Nova Scotia had upwards of 10,000 mature maple
>> trees in the woods all hooked up together with 3/4 to 1" bore plastic
> piping
>> collecting the sap. 100 gallons of sap are boiled away down to 1 gallon
> and
>> that 1 gallon is the "maple syrup". The in-the-woods production facilities
>> are pretty primitve and basic .............. just a water boiling
> operation
>> fed by wood fired furnaces consuming eight foot long semi-split seasoned
>> fire logs !
>>
>> jh
>>
>>
>>
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>> From: "richard mcgrath" <richardinvermont@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>>
>>> Chris, I dunno' about there, but here they sell bars of Lindt 90% cocao
> in
>>> the supermarket. Then again, here...they make maple syrup from tree
>>> sap.--Richard
>>>
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>>> From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 3:29 AM
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>>>
>>>> I hate to admit it, Richard, but I have a feeling that there is more
>>>> cocoa
>>> in a Hershey bar than in the average bar of English "chocolate".
>>>> But German, French and Belgian chocolate is the best, along with the
>>> organic stuff from Green & Black's and the Fairtrade stuff from the
> Co-op
>>> in
>>> the UK.
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>> On 12 Apr 2010, at 21:07, richard mcgrath wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> ...clearly not a fan of Hershey bars...
>>>>> Richard
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