real maple syrup

The neighbors with the 9 kiddos have never had fried mush before so I gave them some to try.  The answer was Yes, Please!  My biggest sauce pan will be busy tomorrow.  Imagine feeding that many people for $4 plus butter and syrup.
Pretty cheap, tasty slumgullion!

Precisely why it was probably the most consumed food during the "Great Depression".
It ended up being socially shunned because people got sick and tired of eating it back then. The generation that lived through that had to die off before the stigma faded. I knew folks that claimed they couldn't even look at it anymore.

Popcorn & milk of some kind is what I always heard stories about

I have a friend who always makes extra popcorn on movie night so some can sit on the counter and get stale overnight to eat like a bowl of cereal with milk in the morning. I expressed my… reservations and he got all defensive, “It’s just like Sugar Pops!”

No, my friend, no, it isn’t.