reid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) (09/15/85)
A couple of weeks ago I found myself in Freeport, Maine, and as is my custom I stopped in to the L.L. Bean retail store. Mostly it has turned into a yuppie supply company (sigh), but many of the same old wonderful things are still there. While buying my annual ration of Maple Syrup, I noticed some small bottles of blueberry syrup on the shelves. Knowing that most "blueberry syrup" is sugarwater with blue food coloring, I was hesitant, but knowing that L.L. Bean is in the heart of wild blueberry country, I decided to spring for a half-pint bottle. Well, actually Freeport is about 100 miles south of the blueberry epicenter, but when you live in California what's the difference? The stuff tastes like blueberries. Like wild blueberries. Like the best wild blueberries you ever tasted. The past few days as visitors come to my house for one reason or another I've been offering them tastes on a spoon. It does look a little strange--being offered a spoonful of syrup instead of a beer--but after they taste it they understand. I haven't seen the blueberry syrup in Bean's catalog, but knowing the way L.L. Bean works, I'm sure they can find a way to sell it to you by mail. Even if you don't like pancakes, you can just put this stuff in a bowl and call it dessert soup, or pour it over ice cream. It's unbelievable! -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA