I'm guessing here but maybe, 'Vermontineers.' :>)

Bobby

"Verdants"?
Greenies"?
"Monties"?

One of my brothers lives there.
I can ask him, and report back.

I have always thought it was "Vermonters".

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I just took wife to airport, bound for Vermont with a friend. I asked her what folks from Vermont are called? She did not know. I asked her what are the go-to foods to eat? She did not know. So, I did not bother asking about beer, syrup, or banjo music, etc.
what say you?

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Easy ...... Vermits & Ben & Jerry's

Generally, it's "Vermonters."

Dairy products are one of the few viable agricultural crops, so there's plenty of cheese, ranging from so-so to brilliant. The maple products are similarly wonderful. There were some hippies making ice cream when I lived there, and that was pretty good, and I hear tell you can buy it worldwide these days.

Largely, it's a meat-and-potatoes kind of place, though there are vegan pockets of tofu-and-kale with a smattering of high-end dining, primarily near the ski areas.

And it's all pretty pricey.

Catamounts

I say she’s gone for a while…………..time to eat and drink and do whatever you want , as long as the place looks the same when she gets home!!! Hope the Mrs. has a good time in Vermont and hope you enjoy your alone time!!!
Slammer!!!

I know non Vermonters are...
Flatlanders...

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I know non Vermonters are...
Flatlanders...

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So in conneticut you are a flat lander. That is funny for us Kansans. Brad

The unOfficial beer of Vermont....

longtrail.com/beers

Al beat me to it, but yes Vermonters call everyone not from Vermont “Flatlanders”.

There’s a joke about a man who was born in Boston but whose family moved to Vermont when he was an infant. He lived in the Green Mountain State to a ripe old age and died peacefully in his sleep. The newspaper’s obituary headline read “Massachusetts Man Dies In Montpelier”

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I know non Vermonters are...
Flatlanders...

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So in conneticut you are a flat lander. That is funny for us Kansans. Brad

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Like wise...

When I visited Fla...

The natives would give directions..

By saying...

You just go over that ..hill... n it will be there in the plaza on the right...

Course me next question was.. where do you ..see..a..hill..... .?

Y'all are close...

...it's Vermontlanders.

I've only spent 5 days or so in Vermont, but most of those days involved maple syrup in one format or the other!

My wife loves real maple syrup, Hates blueberries. I hope she tries some good local ripened blueberries, and gets a hankerin' for them. Like blueberry pancakes with murple surple. I like blueberries.

I once spent a day there. The taxi driver who took us across the state line from Fort Ticonderoga to Burlington referred to himself as a "Vermonter". And my take home was a half gallon of maple syrup, which thankfully didn't leak when it came back across the Atlantic in my suitcase.

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I once spent a day there. The taxi driver who took us across the state line from Fort Ticonderoga to Burlington referred to himself as a "Vermonter". And my take home was a half gallon of maple syrup, which thankfully didn't leak when it came back across the Atlantic in my suitcase.

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I am curious how you consumed your 1/2 gallon of maple syrup at home.  Did you cut it with other syrups, make candy, bbq sauce, etc??? That is a lot of syrup!  Brad

Good maple syrup on good vanilla ice cream………….yes please!!! We Yoopers are known for our maple syrup and getting the good ol boys together and boiling sap can be a great time!!! It’s also been my worst nightmare!!!
Slammer!!!

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I once spent a day there. The taxi driver who took us across the state line from Fort Ticonderoga to Burlington referred to himself as a "Vermonter". And my take home was a half gallon of maple syrup, which thankfully didn't leak when it came back across the Atlantic in my suitcase.

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Was it in cans or bottles Andrew?  I had similar fears about our luggage being just a sticky goo when we got home.  Fixating on that I would only buy from roadside stands that sold it in metal cans (funnily enough they all had the same woodland scene on them).

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I once spent a day there. The taxi driver who took us across the state line from Fort Ticonderoga to Burlington referred to himself as a "Vermonter". And my take home was a half gallon of maple syrup, which thankfully didn't leak when it came back across the Atlantic in my suitcase.

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Was it in cans or bottles Andrew?  I had similar fears about our luggage being just a sticky goo when we got home.  Fixating on that I would only buy from roadside stands that sold it in metal cans (funnily enough they all had the same woodland scene on them).

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It came in a thick plastic imitation of a traditional stoneware jug. And in answer to the other question. It took a long time to consume - poured on porridge, ice cream, fruit salad, used in any baked recipe that specified honey including a glazed ham, replacement for muscovado sugar in gravlax (highly recommended !). The one thing I refused to do with it was follow the bizarre American practice of pouring it on a perfectly good fry-up.

And it was only  half an American gallon not half a real gallon.

you dont want to know what I call them.

My lifelong best friend and musical partner lives in New Hampshire (decidedly NOT flat) and does maple sugaring as a hobby. It’s an incredible amount of work but the rewards are sweet indeed. His “sugar shack” is our mobile stage with a wood fired evaporator on it. He parks it next to his porch and boils away. We’ll drinking coffee in the morning, Scotch later in the day and pick and grin in between stoking the fire and drawing off the sap.

We used to spend our summers in Vermont when I was a kid - on Lake Champlain just outside Swanton. It was a short drive down from Montreal. I don't recall ever buying maple syrup - after all, we came from the world's largest producer of the stuff. The place we rented was next door to the owners. I'd come up from the lake and the man would ask, "Was the water wet?" We'd pass a place in Swanton whose sign read: "Ding Dong Diner - Don G. Bell, prop." There was a "Bushey's" hardware store, most likely an anglicization of the French Canadian "Boucher". Not far away was St. Albans (scene of the northernmost action of the American Civil War, the St. Albans Raid, where some Confederates came down from Montreal and robbed the banks). On the way there we'd see Burma Shave signs. It was decidedly non-mountainous where we stayed. The people are Vermonters.

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Good maple syrup on good vanilla ice cream………….yes please!!! We Yoopers are known for our maple syrup and getting the good ol boys together and boiling sap can be a great time!!! It’s also been my worst nightmare!!!
Slammer!!!

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All that and some Michigan blueberries in my hotcakes, pancakes, Johnny cakes, hoecakes, etc 

Oh, and I do enjoy some Michigan maple syrup on some crisp, fried, cornmeal mush.

A family member of mine was not a native Vermonter but had lived there for a few years. When she became pregnant she asked a neighbor if her children would be real Vermonters. His reply was “Well, if your cat had kittens in your oven would that make them biscuits?”