Only in Canada...

[HaRuMaN]

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/31/millions-of-dollars-in-maple-syrup-stolen/?hpt=hp_t3

I guess the price of real maple syrup is going to go up now...   

[BadMouth]

sugar source for an illegal distillery? 

[Howard_Casto]

There is something hilarous about how seriously the article is written considering they are talking about something you put on your waffles. 

I can understand them getting in a panic over the theft though.  That's a lot of money!  It isn't like maple syrup grows on trees ya know! 

Oh wait......

[BadMouth]

There is something hilarous about how seriously the article is written considering they are talking about something you put on your waffles. 

You haven't seen.......?
(also in Canada)

[ChadTower]

If 10 million pounds is worth $30 million... then 1 million pounds is worth 3 million...


...if they stole "millions of dollars" of syrup...


...then it is likely that they stole over 1 million pounds of syrup.




How the hell do you steal a million pounds of anything?! 

[SavannahLion]

It isn't like maple syrup grows on trees ya know!

Harvesting the stuff does take time. The tapping season is about a month or two (where I live, it's even shorter than that). If I go on vacation I can miss it. Takes about a day to fill a 3-5 gallon bucket if the tree is up to it. Then it has to be cooked down to condense the sugars. So a million gallons of the stuff represents an awful lot of trees.

On a more serious note, I say all of you are wrong. Totally way off base on what the thieves are going to do with the syrup. Somewhere, those thieves are planning something sinister.

[ChadTower]

On a more serious note, I say all of you are wrong. Totally way off base on what the thieves are going to do with the syrup. Somewhere, those thieves are planning something sinister.

Dude I was totally thinking exactly that before I moused over the link!   


My kids and I head over to that spot occasionally during the summer.  It's right in the middle of the Italian section of Boston and the food there is awesome.  Can't say I have ever smelled molasses on a hot day.


I did spot this in the spring in an obscure corner of the waterfront behind a tennis court, though.  Wonder how long ago that was and how it worked out for the dude.

[SavannahLion]

It's a hard death to imagine. Killed by a wall of molasses moving at 35mph.

I've got one (the brick). It's down at a local kids park as part of their yellow brick road.

[Gray_Area]

Hmmmm. If the majority of people were like me, there would be no need for syrup of any sort. Anyways, I be they're going to sell it in third world countries like crack in first world countries.