Is there a tl;dr on this? Can't they just cut to the chase?We eat whatever tastes the best. That'w what we buy.
Oh, got it here: buy grade B syrup - forget grade A:
"So if you happen to relish the taste of maple syrup, you may want to find a bottle of Grade B while you still can. Once the inferior grade is removed from the label, the rarest, most flavorful syrup will likely command at least as dear a price as its blander and more abundant cousins."
That's a great alternative to the headline you fixated on. But the article is actually about the history of maple syrup, so I think you missed the point.
I can't eat history: it is of no use to me, especially in an article about maple syrup.
The title "Why the cheapest maple syrup is the best" asks a question and the article refuses to answer it quickly. I ddn't miss the point - I merely took the title at face value.
I still don't know any more than I did before about the history of maple syrup and that's good - less of my mind wasted on irrelevant information. But I _do_ know that grade B tastes better - something infinitely more useful. And I don't need the history as a referent, since the syrups themselves are the referents (though I shall be loathe to buy any grade A as a referent - perhaps you can do that and we shall taste).
The article was a poor example of bait-and-switch journalism.
I don't know why fools bother to downvote someone because he finds a meandering plotless plodding article to be uninteresting!
Maybe they downvoted you because you are parading your lack of attention span (or perhaps your lack of comprehension). To use terms like "fools" or "bait and switch" when you really meant "tl;dr" or "why aren't there more pictures" is more a comment on you than on the article.
And come on, get used to headlines. If it asks a question that can be answered in a sentence or two and yet there is a full article attached you shouldn't get confused. It's not bait-and-switch; the entire article is about the syrup.
Oh, got it here: buy grade B syrup - forget grade A:
"So if you happen to relish the taste of maple syrup, you may want to find a bottle of Grade B while you still can. Once the inferior grade is removed from the label, the rarest, most flavorful syrup will likely command at least as dear a price as its blander and more abundant cousins."