![]() ![]() However, it in no way resembled the small squat cabin shaped of the Highland Sugarworks bottle or even to the cabin shaped tins used by the Log Cabin Syrup company many years before. Log Cabin Syrup was being sold in tall and narrow blow-molded plastic bottles, with decorative elements that gave it something of the shape of a log cabin. Advertisement from 2000 for Log Cabin Syrup featuring a tall thin plastic bottle with a handle in the general shape of a log cabin. Bean quickly acquiesced and pulled the cabin shaped bottles of syrup from their shelves and catalog. Worried about protecting their brand, L.L. Bean was a reseller of Highland Sugarworks’ syrup and, as a nationally known retailer, was an easy target. The metal cap came with a pre-cut slot for coins with a cardboard insert in the cap that one removed after the syrup was emptied and the bottle cleaned.Īt the time of the controversy, Highland Sugarworks was a relatively small independent maple syrup manufacturing and packing company owned and run by husband and wife, Judy MacIssac and Jim MacIsaac, the latter now deceased. The words “Log Cabin” were embossed on the roof on both sides of the bottle. One side featured a door and two windows, with the back side displaying two windows. Examples of the 1965 one pint Log Cabin Syrup glass cabin bank. In 1965, while part of the General Foods corporate umbrella, Log Cabin Syrup was offered for one year in a special glass cabin shaped bottle that could be reused as a bank. There was actually a precedent for Log Cabin Syrup being packaged in a glass cabin shaped bottle, but Aurora Foods made no mention of it in its threat to Highland Sugarworks. Bean and Highland Sugarworks to stop using the cabin shaped bottle, to destroy all their inventory of the containers, and turn over all profits made from sale of the syrup in these bottles. Bean company of Portland, Maine, and Highland Sugarworks, then out of Starksboro, Vermont, threatening cease-and-desist letters. In February 2000, Aurora Foods (Aurora Foods bought the Log Cabin brand from Kraft- General Foods in 1997), sent both the L.L. In 2000, this bottle was the center of a short-lived, but notable controversy, when Aurora Foods, Inc., the parent company of the Log Cabin Syrup brand, threatened a small Vermont maple syrup company with trademark violations for using this cabin shaped bottle. ![]() First introduced in 1998 by the Vetrerie Bruni glass company, this bottle was designed and sold for packaging maple syrup and was originally released as a 250 ml (8.45 ounce) bottle with a plastic or metal screw-on cap. ![]() Among this category of packaging, the cabin or chalet shaped glass bottle stands out for having a particularly interesting story. Fancy glass, or specialty glass bottles as they are sometimes called, began appearing in the maple industry in the 1980s and really took off in the late 1990s. with total company sales of over $67 billion dollars.Today it is common to find pure maple syrup for sale in a variety of attractive and interestingly shaped and sized glass bottles, such as maple leaves, snowmen, barrels and unique flasks, curets, and decanters. According to Food Processing, PepsiCo is the #1 food + beverage company in the U.S. That’s why PepsiCo is in the Pancake + Waffle Syrup business, too > many of PepsiCo’s sodas are also made with corn-based Syrups. (Source for ingredients: PepsiCo Web site 12/22). If High Fructose Corn Syrup + Water sound familiar as big ingredients in an item that’s because Pepsi is primarily Water + High Fructose Corn Syrup. This Syrup today from PepsiCo is Corn Syrup + High Fructose Corn Syrup + Water + Cellulose Gum + Flavors + Colors + three Chemical Preservatives including Sodium Hexametaphosphate and Sodium Benzoate. There is no longer any real Sugar or Maple Sugar Syrup as originally were in Aunt Jemima Syrup. Here’s a look at how the brand has evolved over the years. (Source for ingredients: PepsiCo Aunt Jemima/Pearl Milling Company Web site 8/24/18, 2/6/20 and 12/22 Source for banned ingredients: Amazon Whole Foods Web site 12/22) The ingredients for Pearl Milling Company Syrup include four ingredients banned at Whole Foods Market > Whole Foods cites these ingredients as “Unacceptable in food” including High Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Flavor, Sodium Benzoate and Sorbic Acid. (Sources: Statista 2022 Historical Aunt Jemima Package) Once upon a time, Aunt Jemima Syrup contained real Sugar and real Maple Sugar Syrup. PEARL MILLING COMPANY (formerly AUNT JEMIMA) IS CURRENTLY THE #1 BRAND OF SYRUP IN THE U.S.
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