A group tastes Canadian and American versions of maple syrup, ginger ale, and other drinks. Canadian maple syrup wins easily. Vernors, a vanilla ginger ale from Toledo made in 1925, sparks memories for one taster. They also discuss the Ottawa Apple, a whiskey-and-cranberry cocktail from Epcot.
Tommy does this like once a week, this like Canadian taste test challenge. So the first started with maple syrup, American maple syrup or Canadian maple syrup. Yesterday, the Canadian, I definitely picked. It's one for one.
It's one for one.
And yesterday was ginger ale.
One for one. She missed the Canadian dry.
Yeah, but I don't think enough people in Canada drink it. She went with the Schweppes. It's down here, maybe.
She went with the Schweppes. Schweppes won.
Okay, I actually like Vernors, which doesn't taste anything like other ginger ales at all.
There you go. Vernors is a whole different flavor altogether, and yeah, I think it's from Virginia, maybe. I don't know. Well, that would make—
I don't know, that's what my grandfather drank when I was a kid, so that's kind of what I grew up on.
That's awesome, I love it.
And in Canada, Epcot, there's a drink that they always have like year-round that's the drink that I get when we go to Epcot. It's called Ottawa Apple, and it's whiskey in it and cranberry juice and whatever. So that's my favorite.
Okay, I'm coming.
Yeah, that's a good tour. Yeah, and like apple stuff. I think it's like an apple whiskey or something. I don't know. I have the recipe and I do make it every once in a while, but it's, it's kind of a— in my opinion, it's a hot weather drink. So yeah, usually if you're going out by the pool or something. I love that.
So Vernors was actually created in, uh, Toledo, Ohio in 1925. It is a vanilla flavored ginger ale.
Oh, I think I'd like that even more. I love vanilla. Oh boy. Yeah.
