I found a brand of frozen pancakes that I really like. So one morning I fired up the microwave oven and heated up a stack of them. After applying the necessary butter and Geauga County maple syrup I sat down and prepared to dig in. Before I started cutting them up I noticed dark cylindrical bodies on the pancakes . Since they were multigrain I figured they were just grain hulls and scraped them off.
This morning I made the pancakes again. This time I took special notice that the pancakes were monocolored and did not have any different colored bodies imbedded in them. After eliminating the pancakes themselves and the butter as the source of these cylindrical bodies, I looked at the syrup. I started swirling the glass syrup pitcher and discovered that it was full of the cylindrical bodies of ANTS that apparently managed to climb in the pitcher when the pouring spout wasn't sealing well and ended up drowning in the syrup. The pitcher was dumped out and run through the dishwasher. The ants aren't helping to pay for the groceries so I'm just going to have to remember to put the syrup pitcher right back in the refrigerator after I use it.
