Talk:Maple taffee (sugar on snow)
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Isn't this the same as tire d'érable? 70.49.249.215 01:03, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
I have moved and renamed the article on the English Wikipedia to Sugar on snow. Hae never heard the term "maple toffee" in New England, grew up on a farm producing both maple syrup and maple sugar. CApitol3
- In my experience maple toffee is the ubiquitous Canadian term. I've moved it back, as when there is a question of national varieties of English the first one used takes precedence. - SimonP 03:51, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I am thinking that if it were ubiquitous it would show up in a google search, other than the wiki article.CApitol3 04:37, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
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- I think that we might be thinking about maple taffee. Peregrine981 05:24, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I think you are right! I have renamed and moved, and rewritten introductory sentence to include three languages/cultures it relates to.CApitol3 12:15, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Maple toffee?
Hi Simon, I've spent near to 50 years on a family farm producing maple syrup. Never heard this term maple toffee, for sugar on snow, and emails and a call to sugarers in Wisconsin, New York state, and Ohio all say the same: never heard of the term. My suspicion is that we have direct transliteration of the Quebecoise french term. Several folks here too on the talk page say the same. Will you please share your thinking on this? Thanks. CApitol3 04:33, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Too much Quebec mention?
The sentences dealing with pour maple taffy onto snow, then rolling it onto sticks isn't just limited to Quebec. The Festival du Voyageur has a similar event, which while they did come from Quebec, they must have made some sort of affect for it to stick around this far west, did it not? Maybe we could use the word Canada or something? Disinclination 06:40, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Taffee?
Is this a real word? There's no entry for it in the O.E.D., nor any other dictionary I checked. It looks to me like a misspelling of either "taffy" or "toffee".
I suggest renaming the article "Maple toffee (sugar on snow)". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ABehrens (talk • contribs) 06:15, 26 February 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Maple candy?
Maple candy redirects here. While this is a form of candy made of maple sap, I only think of the maple sugar candies often cast into maple leaves, like this [1] and this [2]. 70.17.150.171 23:04, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
