Molasses

[Plateau Mama]

Where would you expect to find molasses in the grocery store?

[kiana]

This actually varies by grocery stores. I've seen it most often in breakfast with the syrups (why??? who puts molasses on their pancakes???) but sometimes it shows up in baking. I've never seen it in produce. 

[MEmama]

This actually varies by grocery stores. I've seen it most often in breakfast with the syrups (why??? who puts molasses on their pancakes???) but sometimes it shows up in baking. I've never seen it in produce.

Molasses on pancakes= yummy! We live in maple syrup country so that's our go-to, but we do like molasses too.

 

We used to live near a big producer of molasses and people used it on everything. It's not just a southern thing.

[Plateau Mama]

This actually varies by grocery stores. I've seen it most often in breakfast with the syrups (why??? who puts molasses on their pancakes???) but sometimes it shows up in baking. I've never seen it in produce.

Produce was actually an answer from a friend. Her grocery store moves it to produce during the holidays.

[Matryoshka]

This actually varies by grocery stores. I've seen it most often in breakfast with the syrups (why??? who puts molasses on their pancakes???) but sometimes it shows up in baking. I've never seen it in produce.

This. It belongs in baking with the other sugars and sweeteners (IMHO) but for some unknown reason a lot of stores decide it should be next to the maple syrup. I can never find it when it's there. Well, until I remember that's a thing...

[ktgrok]

This actually varies by grocery stores. I've seen it most often in breakfast with the syrups (why??? who puts molasses on their pancakes???) but sometimes it shows up in baking. I've never seen it in produce. 

 

I always find it where the syrup is, except on the holidays when it is often on an end cap somewhere with other baking stuff. 

[The Girls' Mom]

I always look for it in the baking supplies, but wouldn't be surprised to see it with the syrups.  

 

I have a sudden urge to eat blackstrap molasses and butter on a biscuit.

[carriede]

I voted baking. That's were I looked. But I asked the clerk, and he said it was with the pancake syrup. So now I'll look there too. :/

[bagel270]

I looked in the baking and with the jelly and honey before I asked. It was with the syrup.

[Guest]

In the breakfast aisle, but I only know this because I spent almost half an hour going aisle by aisle searching for it after it wasn't on the baking aisle.  <_<

 

It was in a rather obscure spot on the breakfast aisle at that. Not with the other syrups. I think they do things like this to try and make you buy more. Our store just chose to reorganize itself in the weeks before Thanksgiving. Because you know, with the holidays you want to spend time trying to figure out the new layout. Ugh. 

[Plateau Mama]

The reason I was asking was my daughter offered to go to the store for me and she couldn't find it. I thought it would be with the baking items but when I went back the next day I couldn't find it and I accidental spotted it next to the corn syrup with the pancake syrup.

[redsquirrel]

I would look with the sugars etc in the baking section. That is where it is my usual supermarket.  I don't think I've ever seen it with the maple syrup. 

 

I use molasses quite a bit, I can go through more than one jar in a month, so I know where to find it, lol

 

I've never put molasses on pancakes or waffles, but I live in maple country, so that might be part of it. But, I have frequently made gingerbread waffles that have molasses as an ingredient.

[Cinder]

I voted baking. However, at my local store it's with the syrups in the breakfast aisle. On the bottom shelf. Which was why one year I was so confused thinking my store didn't even carry molasses. Aha, it just wasn't where I thought it would be.

 

I had a similar problem with trying to find honey. It's not in the baking aisle; it's with the peanut butter and jelly. Same aisle as breakfast but the other side of the aisle and on the other end from where molasses and syrup are.

[HS Mom in NC]

Baking.  I've never heard of putting it on pancakes.

[Pawz4me]

It varies from store to store. It can be in the baking aisle, wherever the pancake syrup is (breakfast aisle usually) or with the jams and jellies. In the south molasses was often used on biscuits just like jam or jelly, so . . . that explains that placement.

[Guest]

Since we're talking molasses, what's the difference between regular molasses and blackstrap molasses? How do you know which one to use- do recipes specify? 

[Onceuponatime]

Since we're talking molasses, what's the difference between regular molasses and blackstrap molasses? How do you know which one to use- do recipes specify?

Blackstrap molasses has a stronger flavor and a lot more iron. Maybe it is less refined? In recipes, I use whatever kind I happen to have. It works fine.

[Farrar]

Other... the last place I look.

[Onceuponatime]

Nobody puts molasses on their oatmeal?

[Bluegoat]

It's always in baking in both the grocery stores I go to.

 

What I never seem to be able to locate is Llyle's Golden Syrup.  Sometimes its in baking with the molasses, sometimes its with breakfast things with maple syrup, and sometimes its with imported foods.  And sometimes, like yesterday, it isn't there at all.

Edited December 16, 2016 by Bluegoat

[fairfarmhand]

I've seen it with breakfast stuff (pancake syrups), baking (corn syrup), and in the jelly/jam aisle.

[Aura]

I've always found it with the syrups. All the syrups are grouped together on the same aisle, including pancake syrup, maple syrup, cane syrup, molasses, agave, dark/light corn syrups, etc.

[fairfarmhand]

It varies from store to store. It can be in the baking aisle, wherever the pancake syrup is (breakfast aisle usually) or with the jams and jellies. In the south molasses was often used on biscuits just like jam or jelly, so . . . that explains that placement.

 

Pssst...It still is used on biscuits. My dh swirls it in with butter and dips his biscuits in it.

[City Mouse]

In my store, it is with the pancake syrup and Karo syrup in the breakfast isle.

[Mom22ns]

It is in the breakfast isle near the syrup, but I always forget that and look in baking with sweeteners. I do the same thing with corn syrup. I know where they live, but I don't think of them as going with pancakes. I do love molasses in oatmeal and on biscuits though.

[GailV]

It's way down at the end of the baking aisle, past the granulated sugar, with the syrups.

[Melissa in Australia]

other - in the animal stock feed shop.

 

 

[Rachel]

In my grocery stores it's by the honey. That could mean also near the syrup or by the peanut butter and jelly.

 

I use molasses in baking but my husband eats it on biscuits.

[Caclcoca]

I voted other.  In our stores it is always with the syrups (maple, pancake, karo), but these seem to always be in a different place.  

[IfIOnly]

Nobody puts molasses on their oatmeal?

Oh, that would be so good with some powdered ginger added.

 

We put molasses in milk, tastes really good. Molasses has worked really well getting my iron up when it's not too deficient. It's ricn in a few other nutrients too. I've always used organic blackstrap from the healthfood store. Not sure how refined, commercial would compare for medicinal purposes.

[Cinder]

I've always found it with the syrups. All the syrups are grouped together on the same aisle, including pancake syrup, maple syrup, cane syrup, molasses, agave, dark/light corn syrups, etc.

 

At my store agave is with the sugar, not the syrups.

[mom2samlibby]

I would expect it to be in baking, but in our grocery stores it's with the syrup.

[PinkTulip]

I just bought some earlier today for our gingerbread cookies we made tonight. It was next to the Karo syrup in the baking section.

[kewb]

It's always in baking in both the grocery stores I go to.

 

What I never seem to be able to locate is Llyle's Golden Syrup. Sometimes its in baking with the molasses, sometimes its with breakfast things with maple syrup, and sometimes its with imported foods. And sometimes, like yesterday, it isn't there at all.

I have never seen Llyle's in the store. I ordered a 6 pack from Amazon.

[Ausmumof3]

Near the sugars. Sometimes these are in the baking aisle and sometimes bizarrely they are in the tea and coffee aisle.

[Tanaqui]

At our store, the molasses, the maple syrup, the fruit syrups, the chocolate syrup, and the "pancake syrup" are all in the baking aisle.

 

The honey is with the jellies, on a shelf opposite the eggs, in between the peanut butter and the bread.

[Guest]

This. It belongs in baking with the other sugars and sweeteners (IMHO) but for some unknown reason a lot of stores decide it should be next to the maple syrup. I can never find it when it's there. Well, until I remember that's a thing...

Kind of like when my grocery store moved the Velveeta Cheese to the Pasta aisle. What?! Presumably because of mac n cheese, but who looks for a cheese loaf with the pasta?

[FriedClams]

I'm our house we would say....fresh meat. We're such fifth graders here we can't say the word without embarrassing our kids and calling them mole-(butts). Lots of emphasis. Lots of commentary. Not polite at all, but funny every time.

Edited December 17, 2016 by FriedClams

[Cinder]

Kind of like when my grocery store moved the Velveeta Cheese to the Pasta aisle. What?! Presumably because of mac n cheese, but who looks for a cheese loaf with the pasta?

 

Mine did that too. I recall hearing people asking where the Velveeta was after that. They also moved the pepperoni. Is it next to the prebaked pizza crusts and cans of pizza sauce? No! It's down by the milk on its own display cart. Which is nowhere near the deli nor the prepackaged sandwich meats/sausages/hotdogs. It's not even near the cheese. It's almost near the pillsbury canisters of pizza dough, though. Almost.

[Pippen]

It's nearly always with the syrup in stores here, just like corn syrup is,

[RootAnn]

It is in the baking aisle in our small town grocery store. The baking aisle is the same as the aisle with syrups and breakfast cereal. It is near the syrups (makes sense to me).

[mamaraby]

I voted baking, but at my grocery store pancake syrups, corn syrup, pancake mixes, and molasses are all in the baking aise.

 

Oh, and the cereals, both hot and cold are in another section with granola bars and such.

Edited December 17, 2016 by mamaraby