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By Jason Licker
Published 2020
For Americans like myself, bacon is somehow made even better by adding a touch of maple syrup (preferably near a stack of pancakes). However, not everyone shares this belief. Before we start laughing at them, I’d like to remind my fellow Americans that bacon and maple syrup may be normal to us, but for others, combining the pinnacle of savory flavor with an unapologetic sweetness is not a natural thing.
I mention this now because whenever I’ve talked about pairing butterscotch with