Pure Maple Syrup. Those 3 words make my salivary glands perk right up! As previously mentioned, I could live off maple syrup alone. It is the queen of all things sweet! I knew maple syrup pretty much leaks out of trees in Vermont, it is so abundant. However, I had no clue how maple sap ends as syrup. Before moving here, I pictured a burley man sitting next to his maple tree, “collecting” his syrup. (“Collecting” is a loose term, since I really had no idea how it was collected.)