Syrup Sadness
Here are the two kinds of breakfast syrup available at my local supermarket. (I say breakfast because I’m sure you can get some simple syrups flavored for snowcones right about now. Or Monin type syrups for drinks. Maybe.) Anyway, I’m hugely disappointed. The “(Hot/Pan)cake Syrup” on the left runs about 300 yen per bottle. The bottle contains about 200 grams of syrup. Oof. But worse yet, the “Maple Syrup” on the right costs about 600 yen for about 150 grams. (And it’s not even the good stuff!) Needless to say, the volume of both of these is reeeeally small. Both bottles fit in your palm. The diameter of the cap is about half that of a normal PET bottle. That means I can get about 4 pancakes very sparsely covered with half a bottle of syrup. Unreal. My toothpaste tube has more volume to it. I think I have a little capsule of super glue that has about one third the volume. The syrup is simply too small. And pricey. But I wanted to try pancakes again. (It was the first time in about 2 years.) They were pretty dry. Sigh. Sadness.
200 grams of “cake syrup” = ~ 9 Tablespoons (US) @ 33 cents per tbsp
150 grams of “maple syrup” = ~ 6.8 Tablespoons (US) @ 88 cents per tbsp
1 gallon of gasoline = ~ 256 Tablespoons (US) @ 2.3 cents per tbsp*
Forget oil. This stuff is the new liquid gold. Sheesh.
*Calculated using the slightly dated figure of $5.90 / gallon in Japan. Thanks Ken Y-N for fixing my math problem! 