stackyFACTSPancakes demand an extreme reduction of tree water. Sugar maples bleed a watery sap containing barely any sugar at all. Farmers must boil down forty massive buckets of this liquid just to yield a single jug of thick syrup, making the fuel required for boiling almost as intense as the final product.
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