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Between cub scouts and class trips, I've been to a sugar shack three times. It was fun every time. There is no smell quite like large vats of boiling sap. It's also very cool when they pour strips of boiling sap onto the snow, and then you roll it up around a popsicle stick to make a fresh maple popsicle.

Was anyone else fairly surprised to learn that maple sugar is a source of calcium, magnesium, and potassium? It's funny because sometimes I get a craving for maple syrup and just start pouring spoonfuls, and like a lot of my favourite snacks I find out it's high in potassium. Weird. Did you guys know that any orange powder cheese coated product is usually a good source of potassium? Cheetos are friggin high in potassium!

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Man Snipe, that's a great name for a Maple Syrup ...Bucketsap™

Yeah, we did this in cubscouts -- tapped maple trees and made the syrup, except our method wasn't quite as involved as this! It tastes better when you make it yourself. Yum.

I swear they could put anything on this show and I couldn't get enough of it. HIM is the biz.

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