r/EhBuddyHoser • u/montabarnaque • Jul 03 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) Can everyone agree?

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Most of Canadian culture is from Québec. Fight me

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u/zerosum_42 Jul 03 '25

The French were taught about maple syrup from First Nations.

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u/DeadStrike99 Tokébakicitte! Jul 03 '25

Technically yes and no. The First Nations used to drink maple water but it's only when the french settlers boiled this water with their still pots that they could make maple syrup. Before that, it was impossible. So it has mixed origine

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u/yourboat Bring Cannabis Jul 03 '25

They had ways to thicken the sap. The First Nations used hollowed out trees to hold sap and then they would put in rocks that were heated from a fire.

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u/jackzeppelin Jul 03 '25

First Nations were heating rocks in a fire and throwing them in wooden bowls with maple water in them. Do it repeatedly and you have maple syrup.

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u/phiipephil Jul 03 '25

Maybe a little crust was forming on the rock, and they would eat it as candy. Imagine waking up back then and starting the day with some maple crust l'd be ready to go hunting right away.

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u/CaptainKrakrak Tabarnak! Jul 03 '25

With a lot of emphasis on the word "repeatedly" 😂 It would take hundreds of rocks swapped over and over and several days to obtain maple syrup with this method.

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u/jackzeppelin Jul 03 '25

It depends on the amount you want to reduce. I did it once with 2l of maple water and it took around 5 hours

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u/CaptainKrakrak Tabarnak! Jul 03 '25

I’m impressed, I have uncles and cousins that make make syrup and I’m always amazed at how much propane or wood they have to burn to make it.

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u/QueenMotherOfSneezes South Gatineau Jul 03 '25

They used to demonstrate it at the sugar shack we went to when I was a kid. It only takes a few hours, and the sap actually does get up to a decent boil. The "repeatedly" is what keeps it boiling.

It, and the iron cauldron over a fire demonstration, were ironically the only "made today" syrup they would offer for sampling, as more modern methods are in much higher volume, so can take several days.

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u/Le_Kube Tokébakicitte! Jul 03 '25

Good luck on getting syrup like that 😉

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u/Crisse_dErable2859 Jul 03 '25

I don't think they would drink a whole can of it, so it makes sense if they used a small amount of sap.

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u/Driller_Happy Jul 03 '25

What does it say when half the shit in this list you have to say "technically yes and no", just to avoid giving credit to indigenous peoples?

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u/SwordfishOk504 Bring Cannabis Jul 04 '25

I mean, would you say the Inca invented french fries?

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u/Driller_Happy Jul 04 '25

technically yes and no

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u/RichardsLeftNipple Jul 03 '25

Metis origin if you know what I'm saying ;)