Advertisement from 2000 for Log Cabin Syrup featuring a tall thin plastic bottle with a handle in the general shape of a log cabin. Bean quickly acquiesced and pulled the cabin shaped bottles of syrup from their shelves and catalog.
Worried about protecting their brand, L.L. Bean was a reseller of Highland Sugarworks’ syrup and, as a nationally known retailer, was an easy target. The metal cap came with a pre-cut slot for coins with a cardboard insert in the cap that one removed after the syrup was emptied and the bottle cleaned.Īt the time of the controversy, Highland Sugarworks was a relatively small independent maple syrup manufacturing and packing company owned and run by husband and wife, Judy MacIssac and Jim MacIsaac, the latter now deceased. The words “Log Cabin” were embossed on the roof on both sides of the bottle. One side featured a door and two windows, with the back side displaying two windows.
Examples of the 1965 one pint Log Cabin Syrup glass cabin bank. In 1965, while part of the General Foods corporate umbrella, Log Cabin Syrup was offered for one year in a special glass cabin shaped bottle that could be reused as a bank. There was actually a precedent for Log Cabin Syrup being packaged in a glass cabin shaped bottle, but Aurora Foods made no mention of it in its threat to Highland Sugarworks. Bean and Highland Sugarworks to stop using the cabin shaped bottle, to destroy all their inventory of the containers, and turn over all profits made from sale of the syrup in these bottles. Bean company of Portland, Maine, and Highland Sugarworks, then out of Starksboro, Vermont, threatening cease-and-desist letters. In February 2000, Aurora Foods (Aurora Foods bought the Log Cabin brand from Kraft- General Foods in 1997), sent both the L.L. In 2000, this bottle was the center of a short-lived, but notable controversy, when Aurora Foods, Inc., the parent company of the Log Cabin Syrup brand, threatened a small Vermont maple syrup company with trademark violations for using this cabin shaped bottle. First introduced in 1998 by the Vetrerie Bruni glass company, this bottle was designed and sold for packaging maple syrup and was originally released as a 250 ml (8.45 ounce) bottle with a plastic or metal screw-on cap. Among this category of packaging, the cabin or chalet shaped glass bottle stands out for having a particularly interesting story. Fancy glass, or specialty glass bottles as they are sometimes called, began appearing in the maple industry in the 1980s and really took off in the late 1990s. The all natural syrup consists of brown and white sugar, brown rice syrup, water, natural flavoring, and citric acid as a preservative and xantham gum as a thickener.Today it is common to find pure maple syrup for sale in a variety of attractive and interestingly shaped and sized glass bottles, such as maple leaves, snowmen, barrels and unique flasks, curets, and decanters.
#LOG CABIN LITE SYRUP FREE#
The sugar free Log Cabin syrup is mostly made of water and sorbitol. The lite version of Log Cabin syrup contains the same ingredients but more water and natural sugar than corn syrup when compared to the original recipe. It also contains minor amounts of preservatives, salt, caramel coloring, and artificial and natural flavoring. The main ingredients of the original Log Cabin syrup are sugar, corn syrup, and water. There are three different varieties to meet different dietary needs including the original recipe, the lite recipe which boasts 45% fewer calories, the sugar free recipe with no sugar and 90% fewer calories, and the all natural recipe with no high fructose corn syrup or artificial flavors or sweeteners. Log Cabin syrup has a rich maple flavor that is thick and sweet – the perfect topping for any breakfast food. When it was owned by Aurora Foods in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Log Cabin syrup worked with the National Park Service on historic log cabin restoration projects throughout the country. Log Cabin syrup has been bought out several times over its 134 year history including by popular brands such as General Foods, Kraft, Aurora Foods, Pinnacle Foods, and Conagra. Towle formulated the famous brand of syrup and named it in honor of Abraham Lincoln who was famous for growing up in a log cabin. Log Cabin syrup has been an American staple for livening up breakfast foods such as pancakes, waffles, French toast, and more since 1887.
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