I use Jimmy dean sausage... and it doesn't taste "animally" to me... just my two cents...

I don't like the atkin's syrup... it is so thin... doesn't quite soak into the pancakes the same way... or maybe it is the atkin's pancakes that are the culprit??

Either way... experiment with other sf products in the line of syrup... you might be suprised how good some of them are..