Syrup used to be stored in large, thick, clay jugs, a gallon or more. These vessels were pored by means of resting them on your shoulder and hooking a finger (or two!) into the loop for control.
These smaller bottles have vestigial loops.
Next you’re going to tell me we drank honey straight from the full-sized bear, aren’t you?
Proper drinking technique demonstrated (on left):
Now it’s just good enough for hanging a fancy price tag.
Maple syrup’s tail bone?
I always though it was so you could use a carabiner to buckle it to your belt.
So you can string them on a necklace.
Walk through a forest with a couple dozen empties strung around your neck and trees know what the fuck is up.
one of my uncles told my nephews it was because canadians have a sixth, tiny finger on each hand, it’s how you can tell they’re from canada. they believed this for years, but I guess it’s easy to lie to 5 year olds
And sideways vaginas. Even the men.
I’m sure that you’re speaking from a position of knowledge, but I fear how you gained it. (v)
Shut up! That’s a national secret!
ack, the mounties are at my door! on mooses!
You hoser! Take off eh!
And pouches on their tummies
to hold the syrup bottles, YES
Hook catch to lower the bottle into hot water before serving the syrup warm.
Source: I love me some french toast, waffles, and pancakes.
Did … did you just change my life?
You can also put the bottle in the microwave for a few seconds. Keep a close eye on it though, things can go bad really quickly when you do that.
Edit: be sure to remove the cap first!
Just take the cap off and microwave it like a normal person from the past 2 centuries.
Dawg, I don’t even have a microwave. Fuckin kitchen gadgets smdh
Hmm. Okay.
I suppose the bottle might be hot even if you don’t completely submerge it. But, then what, do you hold it with a gloved hand? If it’s not that hot, then why would I need a hook? I accept this is the intended use, I just don’t see it being particularly useful that way.
It’s also possible this is just vestigial decoration from the older, larger jugs.
You do not fully submerge it. Take the lid off and hang it submerged 3/4 of the way.
I normally hang it from a string tied to a wooden spoon over a tall pot.
Put the bottle on the table to cool a bit while you finish up setting the pancakes. I didn’t wait. I just wrapped the bottle with a little towel and poured it hot on my pancakes.
Heat transfer is not instant. It is proportional to the difference in temperature between the two objects. I assume you know that.
Lowering the bottle into very hot water for a short time will warm the syrup. The water may be too hot to touch but the bottle is not necessary too hot to touch after being dipped.
There so you can hook them to a Carabiner and carry them with you. As is tradition.
It’s like no one has heard of hiking syrup before.
There are those h o wonder, and those who DO. and we are the men that DO.
Wait do non-canadians not have the little sixth digit on their hands for carrying these bottles??
Sadly, no…Our heads also don’t flap about when we talk. Makes it really obvious when you’re an American trying to pass yourself off as Canadian abroad.
Hey! Screw you buddeh!
I’m not your buddeh, guy!
Dew claws?
You can get by with just a pinky but it’s tough when you’re still young and in school. Kids can be so mean.
I think the shape is supposed to be reminiscent of a gallon jug, where the handle actually fits a grown human’s finger. By scaling it down we’re left with a handle that feels idiotic.
Vestigial
Its the “save icon” of maple syrup
Extra cost of glass handle < increased sales from cuteness
Also skeuomorphic!
Oh like landau bars on hearses
Theres actually quite a few examples of this kind of thing in the automotive world.
Such as?
Spoilers for one
And those little hole/grille things on the sides in front of the doors that are like fake exhaust ports.
Made for Tommy Shriggly. Can I get a little clap?
^👏^
is-is it not where you hold it with your prehensile penis?
I mean… That’s how I’ve been using it. 🤷
I mean that’s not what it was designed for but if it works for you…
Shit who even knows what it was designed for.
It looks like it’s for a keychain or carabiner. In case you want a hip flask of syrup, I guess.
it’s to keep the butthole from closing around the top in a manner that would be dangerous.
You’re telling me I’m supposed to stop before the loop?
depends on where you start. ;)
Depends on skill level really.
Behind every OSHA directive there is a harrowing tale.
It makes it easier for the syrup elves to handle the bottles. Most people don’t recognize this part of syrup production and prefer to gloss over the cruelty behind their sweet treat. It can be ethically produced but most producers refuse to comment on their presence of elves in their operation.
We don’t talk about the French Canadian elf abuse, or l’abuse.
Its a useless leftover from when the containers were stone jugs.
They still are. Just melted stone.
Silica is a mineral. aka Quartz and it will melt. Stone jugs are made from clay and is vitrified not melted. its fired in a kiln like brick.
Well, “vitrified” literally means made glassy, and the process involves melting the silicates in the clay, so there are some similarities.
Only in process and loosely at that. Vitrified clay or brick if you prefer is much harder than silica glass.
Reading these comments you can see who the party people are and the party poopers are
You must be fun at parties!
No I actually mean that, I would listen to this shit drunk until way early morning.
You must be fun at parties!
Same I bet they just laugh and laugh.
Screw that geology rocks!
What were they for on stone jugs, if they were just as small? Or were they not?
The jugs were not that small and the loop was much bigger. I had my first drink of alcohol out of a stone jug. It was moonshine and the jug had originally been a maple syrup jug.
Hah! Dumb stone agers!
Vestigial handle?
You mean Canadians don’t have them attached to their belts like a hip flask?
As is the fashion of the time!
I’d rock that with a beefy retractable lanyard reel (?)
