Photo from the Inthewoods Sugar Bush Facebook page.
A Manitowoc business was featured on a Milwaukee Brewers game recently.
During the first game between the Brewers and Pirates last Friday (September 5th), Manager Pat Murphy was being interviewed and decided to again pull out some food that he was eating in the dugout out of his pocket.
But it wasn’t a pocket pancake, as he has become synonymous with.
It was a quesadilla.
Tricia Whitaker, who was interviewing Murphy, was offered and accepted a bite of the quesadilla but said that she wanted to give Murphy a gift in return.
Since the pancake they shared last time was a bit dry, she offered Murphy a bottle of maple syrup made in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
The syrup came from Inthewoods Sugar Bush, a local maple syrup manufacturer.
Jesse Wagner, one of the owners, tells SeehaferNews.com that he was very surprised to hear about what happened.
“My phone blew up Friday night with everybody sending me that link,” he explained. “I must have got about 20 links sent to me to watch that little clip of that.”
Murphy ended up putting the maple syrup on the quesadilla, which Wagner called a good idea.
“That just goes to show you that pure Wisconsin Maple Syrup goes on just about everything,” Wagner said.
Wagner said he had to watch the clip multiple times to see if it really was their brand, but eventually he saw the label and knew it was his business.
He said he even knew where the bottle was purchased.
“They got that particular bottle from Hennings Cheese (In Kiel),” he described. “We sell our syrup in a lot of gift stores, a lot of cheese shops.”
Wagner is a third-generation maple syrup producer who started with his dad when he was a child.
Inthewoods Sugar Bush has about 3,500 trees and makes pure maple syrup, which is sent all over the U.S.
You can find a link to the video on the Inthewoods Sugar Bush LLC Facebook page.
The title of the video from the Brewers has the caption saying, “The man loves his snacks.”
