Max Hedges and Maple Syrup

I stayed over at Max Hedges on the weekend and had a buet breky nocked up by Cathy bacon and eggs, mushrooms and small fried tomatos.
However what happened next was not quite believable Max poured maple syrup on perfectly good bacon and eggs. When questioned about this odd ritually Max informed me that this is how bacon and eggs are served in Canada.

Canadians is this TRUE?

or does Max just have a really mean sweet tooth?

Help needed on this topic, until now I previously considered Canadians similar to Australians only with wooly hats and coats.

[Steve Guthrie]

Hi there

Actually, I prefer mine (No.1 Light) on the side, with a straw, over ice

Steve

[Dana Nield]

Just like in Super Troopers, straight up. I guess the straw is a Peterborough thing.



If you haven't seen it yet.... Shame on you. Super Troopers Trailer (With apologies to ABBA)

(Its set in Vermont, where I used to live, but it could have been in Ontario. Almost.)

[Max Hedges]

Kathy had to buy the syrup out of the shops as I ran out of the real homemade stuff which we brought home last trip. Mark was lucky I didn't put raspberry jam and ketchup on my eggs like some Canadians we know do.

Max

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Mark Sierant
However what happened next was not quite believable Max poured maple syrup on perfectly good bacon and eggs. When questioned about this odd ritually Max informed me that this is how bacon and eggs are served in Canada.

Canadians is this TRUE?

I've seen it happening too - but if Max did not serve it beer to wash it down it wasn't a real bacon 'n eggs Canadienne!

[Keith Webb]

Yes, Max should be appointed an honorary Canadian.

What a legend!

This pic comes from a page of Max's treasures and also contains links to other pages relating to Max.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Errrr..... we generally put maple syrup on our french toast and bacon (pancakes too), but eat eggs straight. Hanno's right, though... on a breakfast like that... you can't do without beer!

Try this too... a can of pork & beans with two or three eggs (sunny-side up) laid on top and a small rib-eye steak... yum! Of course, you STILL have to wash that down with a barley sandwich.

Bully beef, fried potatoes and onions and a few eggs still works too...

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Keith Webb


Yes, Max should be appointed an honorary Canadian.

I fully agree - if anything because he's wearing the right type of badge on his jacket!

[Keith Webb]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Of course, you STILL have to wash that down with a barley sandwich.

Bully beef, fried potatoes and onions and a few eggs still works too...

To quote a famous Canuck Princess (who has been verrrry quiet on the forum lately) GAAAAK!!!

I still can't quite come at the idea of a barley or indeed malt sandwich for breakfast.

Once I can overcome that little hurdle maybe I'll apply for the honorary Canadian status too.

[Euan McDonald]

Max is one of the few people I know who is made to wear overalls just to eat his breakfast. Kathy has trained Max now so he dosent drip maple syrup on his work clothes. The maple syrup used to send the sheep dog crazy:
Euan.eek:

[Keith Webb]

Originally posted by Euan McDonald
Max is one of the few people I know who is made to wear overalls just to eat his breakfast. Kathy has trained Max now so he dosent drip maple syrup on his work clothes. The maple syrup used to send the sheep dog crazy:
Euan.eek:

AND a Ford badge!
It wasn't only the sheep dog; it drives those inch-ants wild too, I hear.

Most Australians would reach for a bottle of Barbaque sauce for added flavour. A zesty tang similiar to Vegemite with only a hint of a sweet edge.

But Canadians sweet sauce on savory bacon and eggs you guys must shurely have the world record for Diabetics and Heart Attack per head of population.

I cannot imagine those of you from French Stock could commit such a crime against the humble pig and chicken.


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[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by Mark Sierant
I cannot imagine those of you from French Stock could commit such a crime against the humble pig and chicken.

"French stock"? FRENCH stock??!!

[Lynn Eades]

There's a lot of sticky dribble on this thread!

[servicepub (RIP)]

As long as you don't pour syrup in your beer (waste of two life-giving fluids), or pour beer on your eggs (waste of good eggs) then anything goes.

[DaveCox]

Having had direct experience of Canadian breakfasts during a visit to Victoria earlier this year I can confirm the heart attack potential. I have a reputation as a 'human dustbin', but Man - I couldn't finish what was on the plate (bruch in a small diner below BC Shavers) - Jeez., I put on half a stone in one meal.

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Our daughter is just about to start Catering College at 16 and she could eat Max's brekky there plus Max in five minutes! We really must get her weight down, but she does a really meam ALL DAY BREAKFAST which she learned at College on day-release from school last year. So that's eggs, beans, sausages, fried bread, black pudding, hash browns, mushrooms, tomatoes, plus toast and tea. I have just had some of Danielle's Apple Crumble and I can't eat a thing more today. She wants to be a chef, and I think she'd eat all the food she cooked myself.

Last year we suddenly got into buying Scotch pancakes and then French Crepes which we can buy made up in the chiller at the supermarket. To go on the pancakes we looked for syrup and whereas the sugar-based 'maple flavour' squeezy stuff was all right, nothing went down better than genuine Canadian Maple Syrup but boy what a price! I have however never ventured to buy a jar of Kraft Vegemite....Marmite is as near as I have got to it. Dave, didn't we first hear of Vegemite in the song by Men At Work when they talk of chundering and Vegemite sandwiches.

Personally I regret that I cannot eat eggs because of an Albumin allergy but the rest of the fry-up looks excellent, and that syrup looks as though it belongs there.

Have any of our colonial and European friends an equivalent of our All-Day Breakfast or is that a peculiar English thing?

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Errrr..... we generally put maple syrup on our french toast and bacon (pancakes too), but eat eggs straight. Hanno's right, though... on a breakfast like that... you can't do without beer!


Bully beef, fried potatoes and onions and a few eggs still works too...

Hmmmmm, sounds awfully like the typical American tendencies

Probably very windy too, IIRC Beltring correctly. Maybe this and the beer accounts for the MLD spectre, I have a picture here somewhere

R.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Richard, I dare you.........

[Keith Webb]

Originally posted by David_Hayward
Didn't we first hear of Vegemite in the song by Men At Work when they talk of chundering and Vegemite sandwiches.
Have any of our colonial and European friends an equivalent of our All-Day Breakfast or is that a peculiar English thing?

When Men at work were just an unknown pub band I used to stand at the back of the crowd to put Colin off his vocals (he was a friend at the time). Ahhh the memories!
Speaking of chunder recently when I was at Temora I was staying in the bunkhouse with a pilot and his mate (who was called "Bin Ladin") - we went to the pub for a dinner and poor old Bin mixed his drinks and on returning to the bunkhouse made several trips yo his room making loud coughing sounds...

[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

Hi David - just in for 5 minutes between field trips. Just received stuff from Nick - will respond after next field trip which is starting now.

All day brekky is also available in Oz except we follow it up with All Day Lunch and then All Day Dinner. Reading Danielle's brekky menu, not bad for a snack.

Pic attached is one of our snacks.

Bob

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Richard, I dare you.........

Oh, in that case I'd better go look for it then.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by FV623
Oh, in that case I'd better go look for it then.

Is this the sort of picture you were looking for?

Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
Is this the sort of picture you were looking for?

Yes indeed, that is one of them.

I do recall in a moment of wicked malice intended to confuse our august, illustrious and esteemed provider of MLU, whilst in a transient state of MLD; we re-enacted the Mad Hatter's Tea Party and in a tip-toe of musical chairs the gathered MV entourage took up positions very different from that obtaining immediately before the MLU/MLD transition. We also recovered the empties and stacked these before the almost recumbent MLU führer in a vain effort to suggest he imbibed a heap more than was actual.

Regrettably, on regaining the MLU norm we did not actually succeed in adding anything to the aura of Spinny-Ball confusion; in fact McSpool I'm sure you had a hand in this too now I think of it.

R.

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

That's nothing substantial...is that for the cage bird?

This all reminds me that perhaps 20 years ago perhaps more there was a story in the newspapers in England that referred to a pub in London, possibly near the Smithfield Meat Market, or one of the other main markets that open at midnight and close by 10 am, with pubs opening at 5 am for 'Bona Fide Market Workers'. Well, that was for legal booze....nothing to stop legitimate consumption of orange juice etc. Of course, to cater literally for the big burly market workers the pubs used to do breakfasts, and not a piece of toast and a cup of tea...we are talking of beer, beer, beer and fry-ups of the sort pictured. Well, the City [financiers] people and actors, writers etc. had found out about these places and used to frequent at 7 or 8 am in the morning such establishments as a prime oppertunity to meet, socialise and guzzle juice with breakfast. I wonder if this was because they had been partying all night and this was a stop-off before hitting the sack?

The particular pub featured had a menu with all the fry-ups, with at the top of the list a 'Special' or rather 'The Special' at something like £6.50 which I guess now equates to £20 +. The Special was a gargantuan plate of everything that could eb fried and grilled and piled not placed on a plate. The mind boggles at how one was meant to eat it all at 8 am. Apparentlty the cognoscenti appreciated this because whenever the bar staff called to the kitchen that someone had ordered a 'Special', it was such an event that all the crowd murmured and turned to see whether it was a 6' 6" market porter, or some new socialite trying to look flash.

We went for a pizza last night and I reminded Juliette, She Who Must Be Obeyed, that I went for a pizza with my cousin and his two friends in a Pizza Hut some years back. The two mates then insisted we order two of their biggets pizzas, ok, but Spicey Hot One or whatever it was called, with extra chillies! One guy then proceeded to pour Tabasco sauce over every mouthful he ate...I guess he ate volcanoes for a living. I just could not believe it.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by FV623
in fact McSpool I'm sure you had a hand in this too now I think of it.

Who, me? Do you really think the Reserved Dutchman would have a hand in something like that?!?

Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
Who, me? Do you really think the Reserved Dutchman would have a hand in something like that?!?

Hmmmm, if you believe that you can plait (braid, for our N.American, colonial chums) sawdust. Now, I wouldn't dare to be so disrespectful of our illustrious and esteemed Spinnington-Wall, so here is an image depicting the normal modus operandii of MLU which includes all the normal suspects in "off" configuration.

You will note the high-altitude Gouda-land person in one-legged resting stork mode (boots, combat, UK size 12, large) and our revered leader casually leaning on the world's only as-new and fully 11 set fitted M-C PU8/2 as if these things were two-a-penny, whilst being completely unfazed by the T212 supporting our hospitality accommodation.

Those eagle-eyed people with Constance Babbington-Smith tendencies may also observe the esteemed MLU Obergruppenführer destroying the last of one of those silencer (muffler) equipped, namby-pamby smoking sticks in a bout of cheek-puckering vacuum generation; personally I find these colonial combustible smoking facilities hugely improved by the simple expedient of wrenching off the unwarranted and unnecessary muffler bit and heaving it into the middle distance thus leaving a passable impression of an, albeit short, but semi-decent straight-through, like they should be.

R.

Originally posted by FV623
so here is an image depicting the normal modus operandii of MLU

Which, I regret, doesn't work here even for a 90112 byte file of the correct extension showing in the "Attach file" box, sorry.

R.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by FV623
Which, I regret, doesn't work here even for a 90112 byte file of the correct extension showing in the "Attach file" box, sorry.

R.

E-mail it to me and I'll attach it for you.

H.

Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
R.

E-mail it to me and I'll attach it for you.

H.

That's very kind of you McS, but rather defeats the object doesn't it?

Like it says under this compose screen right now:

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