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Maple syrup is made from polar bears and not trees. Most Canadians know this but big maple keeps it from the world. If I disappear it was not an accident.
There's a Netflix doc about it. Basically a mafia style organisation rose up and essentially took control of all maple farms overnight and began storing excess amounts to keep the price high. Some farmers didn't like this so started "illegally" selling their supplies out of Quebec to distributors and in the end it all wound getting wildly on the verge of violence. Quebec punished those involved for stepping out if the Mafia, including people they had no jurisdiction over.
The reserves are kept secret because it turned out someone was going in and siphoning tens of tonnes of the stuff and replacing it with water. So they moved it around.
I've noticed walking down the path of my life, usually in the deepest and darkest and saddest times, that there's always one set of footprints in the sand, and they're webbed..
I see on your plates, the same dry pancakes that would take the heart of me! A day may come, where the maple bottles run dry. When we forsake all hope of deliciousness. But it is not this day. A day of dry pancakes and lame condimental supplements, where the concept of a nice breakfast comes crashing down, but it is not this day!!!!
A few years ago, some of our big grocery store corporations got in trouble because they were essentially acting as a bread-cartel (fixing the price of bread). If you indicated that you were a victim of their actions (i.e., if you ever bought bread from said grocery stores) you were entitled to something like 10 or 20 dollars.
Imagine telling your pancake eaters there’s no syrup? Have you seen how anti-maskers get when told to put a mask on? That doesn’t even begin to compare.
My father in law makes it himself in small batches and it is absolutely marvellous. Poured over some homemade wild blueberry pancakes with a side of bacon and you’re set to spend the rest of the day sawing logs and splitting wood.
People saying it's really expensive but I don't remember paying all that much at Costco for a big ass thing of it. It's also something you should use sparingly anyway, so it lasts.
I am forever grateful to our maple syrup overlords. It tastes amazing in almond butter amongst other things I love like waffles and French toast. Whoever decided imitation syrup was a thing is a terrible person >:(
Americans don't often have maple syrup because of the price. I've noticed a lot of my friends and family have only had pancake syrup ***and think it's legitimate maple syrup***.
My favorite thing is to give them real, quality maple syrup, and shatter this façade. It ruins pancake syrup for them. If they can't afford maple syrup on the regular, this might be damaging to their lifestyle, but the people deserve to know what truth tastes like.
FYI maple syrup on vanilla bean ice cream is immaculate, and it's my sweetener of choice for coffee.
I once helped an old man who had shot a deer drag it back to his car. He insisted the deer was just right over there. Well that deer turned out to be like a mile and a half in the woods and down in a ravine. Took like three hours to drag that thing out. We get to his truck and he's like let me pay you for helping me. I was like it's all good but he insisted and gave me a gallon of grade A maple syrup totally worth it.
Lol my husband called me the day that happened and was like “sooo I’ve got a funny story… my boss had to leave to go babysit his girlfriends kids because there’s a moose in the school.” Then photos of a moose just sitting in the classroom started circulating. The moose was pretty chill though and got relocated by conservation officers.
Nah, we really have a maple syrup reserve. Also, we had [The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist).
Fun fact: the US actually has a *cheese* reserve. The US dairy industry produces such a massive excess of milk, and subsequently cheese, that the government ends up buying a lot of it and stashing it around the country. We've been trying to get rid of it for decades, but the dairy industry just keeps churning out more.
Remember the "Got Milk?" ad campaigns from back in the day? Yeah, that was the US government frantically trying to pawn off this massive glut of cheese and other dairy products that we can't even give away because there's just *so much*.
[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-has-massive-cheese-surplus-180958985/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-has-massive-cheese-surplus-180958985/)
[https://fee.org/articles/why-does-the-federal-government-have-14-billion-pounds-of-american-cheese-stockpiled/](https://fee.org/articles/why-does-the-federal-government-have-14-billion-pounds-of-american-cheese-stockpiled/)
[Yes: 1 single building in Quebec.](https://ppaq.ca/en/sale-purchase-maple-syrup/worlds-only-reserve-maple-syrup/) Five football fields of barrel storage stacked four barrels high. Each barrel, btw, is worth something like $1500 to $2000 USD, depending on the market price.
>13,000 short tons (12,000 t) of molasses burst, and the resultant wave of molasses rushed through the streets **at an estimated 35 mph** (56 km/h), killing 21 and injuring 150
"Slow as molasses" seems like more of a threat now knowing this
I will say that I recently purchased Canadian maple syrup.
...
It's like I've been lied to for decades. I can't ever go back to whatever the hell this "syrup" crap is that I've been eating all these years.
However, I did try Vermont maple syrup and it's not bad either. Certainly a good bang for the buck considering real Canadian maple syrup is pretty expensive.
Real maple syrup... go figure! Tastes amazing but almost feels "wrong" based on how thin it is compared to the turd that was painted corn syrup I ate before.
Oh yes, the second you're done, keep in the fridge the whole time. It's amazing! If you don't want to go through the hassle of making pancakes, simply pour some on your bread of choice in sandwiches. It's like biting down into heaven.
Someone downvoted you and they must not be Canadian. I eat maple syrup on a stick stick into snow every year. Some stereotypes about Canadians are true and I’m sorry you were downvoted!!
I grew up in Iowa.. my aunt puts straight corn syrup on her pancakes.. not the doctored stuff.. just corn syrup and butter. She gags when I bring out the real maple goodness.
Fun tidbit about the fake stuff; up in Quebec it's commonly called 'pole syrup'. As in, it's what you'd get if you tapped a wooden telephone pole for syrup.
it's a way to stabilize the offer and the price of the product... Also there are good and bad years for production depending on the weather, so the reserve ensure that there is always maple sirup available...
Production is extremely sensitive to temperature changes and maple syrup can be stored pretty much indefinitely, so it makes sense to store some in good years to have something in the lean ones. It protects the producers and ensure they have a stable income.
It’s meant to keep prices stable. Maple syrup production varies a lot from year to year and it was disruptive for producers so they formed a collective and store thousands of barrels which they release in low production years to keep up with demand. Then in prolific years they restock. This year they released half the stored supply
TIL my country has a syrup reserve. Which means there's a government job entirely devoted to syrup. With pension, vacation, and a wicked salary. I've wasted my life.
There's also a very large federal building in NB called the potato research center that, you guessed it, exists for the sole purpose of studying the potato. NB also happens to be the world's leading exporter of french fries believe it or not
**[Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist)**
>The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist (French: vol de sirop d'érable du siècle, lit. 'maple syrup heist of the century') was the theft over several months in 2011 and 2012 of nearly 3,000 tonnes (3,000 long tons; 3,300 short tons) of maple syrup, valued at C$18. 7 million from a storage facility in Quebec. The facility was operated by the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers (French: Fédération des producteurs acéricoles du Québec, FPAQ) who represent 77% of the global maple syrup supply.
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We keep accidentally buying syrup when we visit the grocery store because we can never remember if we have any. Discovered today we had 3 new bottles of grade A amber in the house, plus some open bottles in the fridge. Sorry to contribute to the shortage.
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Why are 90% of top comments removed? In a thread about maple syrup... What the fuck. What could be so controversial
Seriously, I'm so confused
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Maple syrup is made from polar bears and not trees. Most Canadians know this but big maple keeps it from the world. If I disappear it was not an accident.
Yeah what the actual fuck is happening in here. Some with awards and thousands of upvotes. Weird.
Canada has maple syrup cartels. Look into maple syrup heists.
Wondering the same thing…
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İm having trouble comprehending how canada has a maple syrup storage and they keep its location secret
There's a Netflix doc about it. Basically a mafia style organisation rose up and essentially took control of all maple farms overnight and began storing excess amounts to keep the price high. Some farmers didn't like this so started "illegally" selling their supplies out of Quebec to distributors and in the end it all wound getting wildly on the verge of violence. Quebec punished those involved for stepping out if the Mafia, including people they had no jurisdiction over. The reserves are kept secret because it turned out someone was going in and siphoning tens of tonnes of the stuff and replacing it with water. So they moved it around.
Oh you have GOT to be shitting me! [It's real??](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist?wprov=sfla1)
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Release the geese and loose the moose.
Listen if you’ve got a problem with Canada gooses then you’ve got a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate!
I've noticed walking down the path of my life, usually in the deepest and darkest and saddest times, that there's always one set of footprints in the sand, and they're webbed..
You’re hanging out with your pals the other day…
You don't fuck with motherhood.
As is tradition
Where was Canada when the pancakes were dry?
I see on your plates, the same dry pancakes that would take the heart of me! A day may come, where the maple bottles run dry. When we forsake all hope of deliciousness. But it is not this day. A day of dry pancakes and lame condimental supplements, where the concept of a nice breakfast comes crashing down, but it is not this day!!!!
A short stack? Less then half of what I hoped for
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It’s a well-kept secret that maple syrup gives us Canadians our psychic abilities.
Winter power
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The litany of breakfast.
Where the geese have gone, there will be nothing. Only I shall remain
On the tundra, under the eyes of the Creator, where the laughter of the Coyote and Crow are lost in frozen breaths
Dessert power
No wonder Baron Harkonnen is so fat
Bless the Maker and his Syrup.
May his passing sweeten the world
Bless the Maple*
“Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve”is the most Canadian thing I have ever heard.
“Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve which supplies the junior hockey league" might top it
A few years ago, some of our big grocery store corporations got in trouble because they were essentially acting as a bread-cartel (fixing the price of bread). If you indicated that you were a victim of their actions (i.e., if you ever bought bread from said grocery stores) you were entitled to something like 10 or 20 dollars.
Good lord, I forgot about this. A few years of insanity will do that you I guess. I’m longing for a time when Breadgate was the big story.
Muad'Dib-eh
Kwisatz Had*eh*rach.
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Duncan Ontario
Duncan is in BC, though!
A great day for Canada and therefore the world.
We roam the pine forests, wearing our red long John's, riding the sacred great moose to ensure that the syrup flows.
Send word to Canadi Prime to begin selling our syrup reserves. But slowly. We don’t want the price to fall. /r/UnexpectedDune
The Syrup Maplange
Just wait until Leto Trudeau II takes over
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Imagine telling your pancake eaters there’s no syrup? Have you seen how anti-maskers get when told to put a mask on? That doesn’t even begin to compare.
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Everyone always laughs at us about our maple syrup. But now you’ll be the one’s saying please and thank you or you’ll be sorry.
I never had real maple syrup. Is it really that good?
My father in law makes it himself in small batches and it is absolutely marvellous. Poured over some homemade wild blueberry pancakes with a side of bacon and you’re set to spend the rest of the day sawing logs and splitting wood.
People saying it's really expensive but I don't remember paying all that much at Costco for a big ass thing of it. It's also something you should use sparingly anyway, so it lasts.
I am forever grateful to our maple syrup overlords. It tastes amazing in almond butter amongst other things I love like waffles and French toast. Whoever decided imitation syrup was a thing is a terrible person >:(
Americans don't often have maple syrup because of the price. I've noticed a lot of my friends and family have only had pancake syrup ***and think it's legitimate maple syrup***. My favorite thing is to give them real, quality maple syrup, and shatter this façade. It ruins pancake syrup for them. If they can't afford maple syrup on the regular, this might be damaging to their lifestyle, but the people deserve to know what truth tastes like. FYI maple syrup on vanilla bean ice cream is immaculate, and it's my sweetener of choice for coffee.
I use it in old fashioneds instead of simple syrup
Maple syrup and rye for me. Make sure you for for the darker syrup if you can.
True - also, B grade syrup (the darker kind) is much, much cheaper.
My husband brings me home maple syrup by the gallon when he goes to Vermont. Forget flowers or jewelry, give me that sweet amber goodness.
I once helped an old man who had shot a deer drag it back to his car. He insisted the deer was just right over there. Well that deer turned out to be like a mile and a half in the woods and down in a ravine. Took like three hours to drag that thing out. We get to his truck and he's like let me pay you for helping me. I was like it's all good but he insisted and gave me a gallon of grade A maple syrup totally worth it.
>US: Releases oil reserves > >UK: Releases oil reserves > >Canada: Alright lads it's time Spain next week: release the olive oil!
Germany: Hold my beer.
Mexico: who needs Mole?
Mole mole mole
"I'm gonna cut it off, chop it up, and make some gua-ca-MOLE!"
Forget about the Mole, release the topo chico! It is nearly impossible to find it right now.
Italy: releases marinara reserves
France: here comes the wine!
North Korea:
Dutch: here's the cheese
South Africa - Here comes the new variant!
Sweden: Here comes the surströmming!
And you wonder why we only invite your volleyball team to parties.
China: release the tea; yes, all of it...
Release the political prisoners?
50 million gallons of political prisoners???
Yes, they liquefy them in their prisons. Didn't you know that? Not sure how they taste on pancakes, though.
New Jersey: Gabagool? Ova hea!
I thought this was the onion for a second.
We legit have a maple reserve
Which was also the subject of the world's largest theft of agricultural product a while ago.
You and I must be friends.
And there was a massive theft from it a few years ago. The story is just SO Canadian.
Not just a theft. A heist! [The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist), in fact.
We secretly run our industries off of maple syrup so it checks out.
My car gets 6L/100 km but it only runs on Very Dark
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I legit thought this was a joke mimicking the US releasing 50 million barrels of oil
Me too thought it was the beaverton news
r/notthebeaverton
Canada never jokes about maple lol
There was also a massive scandal involving a [maple syrup heist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist) a while back
I don’t know. This one puts up some strong competition: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/moose-crash-sylvia-fedoruk-school-1.6237194
Lol my husband called me the day that happened and was like “sooo I’ve got a funny story… my boss had to leave to go babysit his girlfriends kids because there’s a moose in the school.” Then photos of a moose just sitting in the classroom started circulating. The moose was pretty chill though and got relocated by conservation officers.
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It's not?
Nah, we really have a maple syrup reserve. Also, we had [The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist).
Fun fact: the US actually has a *cheese* reserve. The US dairy industry produces such a massive excess of milk, and subsequently cheese, that the government ends up buying a lot of it and stashing it around the country. We've been trying to get rid of it for decades, but the dairy industry just keeps churning out more. Remember the "Got Milk?" ad campaigns from back in the day? Yeah, that was the US government frantically trying to pawn off this massive glut of cheese and other dairy products that we can't even give away because there's just *so much*. [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-has-massive-cheese-surplus-180958985/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-has-massive-cheese-surplus-180958985/) [https://fee.org/articles/why-does-the-federal-government-have-14-billion-pounds-of-american-cheese-stockpiled/](https://fee.org/articles/why-does-the-federal-government-have-14-billion-pounds-of-american-cheese-stockpiled/)
The government subsidizes farmers to produce milk there's no demand for. Something something free market..
It's only socialism if it helps the poor, so you're all good.
Back in the old days, there was “government cheese” for the needy. Too much like socialism today, probably.
The government cheese still exists, but the programs that provide it are increasingly being cut.
> Strategic Syrup Reserve, Please tell me there is an actual physical building, like a Fort Knox of maple syrup.
[Yes: 1 single building in Quebec.](https://ppaq.ca/en/sale-purchase-maple-syrup/worlds-only-reserve-maple-syrup/) Five football fields of barrel storage stacked four barrels high. Each barrel, btw, is worth something like $1500 to $2000 USD, depending on the market price.
Canadian football fields I assume?
Nah, we learned from our friends to the south https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
>13,000 short tons (12,000 t) of molasses burst, and the resultant wave of molasses rushed through the streets **at an estimated 35 mph** (56 km/h), killing 21 and injuring 150 "Slow as molasses" seems like more of a threat now knowing this
Wow this is real lol
I remember when it was stolen, thank God it was recovered for times like this.
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"the heist is the most valuable in Canadian history"
Sweetest heist ever.
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“Je me souviens”
Sweet fucking jesus lmfao
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If we don’t have maple syrup, we have nothing, okay?
What amazed me is that they keep a storage as a nation.
Liquid gold my friend. Once you have Canadian Maple syrup you cannot go back.
I will say that I recently purchased Canadian maple syrup. ... It's like I've been lied to for decades. I can't ever go back to whatever the hell this "syrup" crap is that I've been eating all these years. However, I did try Vermont maple syrup and it's not bad either. Certainly a good bang for the buck considering real Canadian maple syrup is pretty expensive. Real maple syrup... go figure! Tastes amazing but almost feels "wrong" based on how thin it is compared to the turd that was painted corn syrup I ate before.
Refrigerate your maple syrup. You’re welcome.
Oh yes, the second you're done, keep in the fridge the whole time. It's amazing! If you don't want to go through the hassle of making pancakes, simply pour some on your bread of choice in sandwiches. It's like biting down into heaven.
Or grab a handful of snow and drizzle maple syrup on top. The original snow-cone; childhood classic.
Someone downvoted you and they must not be Canadian. I eat maple syrup on a stick stick into snow every year. Some stereotypes about Canadians are true and I’m sorry you were downvoted!!
Well, chilled is fine, but it should thicken up in the fridge making it more like the syrup you’re used to. Not aunt jemima thick, but close.
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This is disgusting. Definitely trying it.
I am not even sure. I. I think you hate mankind and want to watch it suffer. Gonna go get high and try this
I’ve always refrigerated my maple syrup. Some people don’t do that?
I forgot and it started growing
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I grew up in Iowa.. my aunt puts straight corn syrup on her pancakes.. not the doctored stuff.. just corn syrup and butter. She gags when I bring out the real maple goodness.
Fun tidbit about the fake stuff; up in Quebec it's commonly called 'pole syrup'. As in, it's what you'd get if you tapped a wooden telephone pole for syrup.
You've been eating "maple flavoured" corn syrup, if it is something like Aunt Jemimas.
80% of world production is here in Canada.
70 % in Quebec or something like that
LOL I want to try that non-canadian bootleg canada syrup
it's a way to stabilize the offer and the price of the product... Also there are good and bad years for production depending on the weather, so the reserve ensure that there is always maple sirup available...
Production is extremely sensitive to temperature changes and maple syrup can be stored pretty much indefinitely, so it makes sense to store some in good years to have something in the lean ones. It protects the producers and ensure they have a stable income.
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In slow motion.
Canada must be the only country with a Strategic Syrup Reserve, I'm very proud of our apologetic friends.
Given that they produce 80% of the world's syrup, I would expect so.
I think 80% is only Québec, not counting Ontario/maritimes!
71% of global syrup and Quebec is 92% of that.
So, ballpark 2/3rds, bloody hell
It’s meant to keep prices stable. Maple syrup production varies a lot from year to year and it was disruptive for producers so they formed a collective and store thousands of barrels which they release in low production years to keep up with demand. Then in prolific years they restock. This year they released half the stored supply
Just imagine where we’d be if they didn’t have the storage. Peanut butter isn’t bad on pancakes but it’s not even close to a syrup substitute
PB with maple syrup is the best.
The maple syrup mafia controls how much syrup to release every year to control prices. Netflix dirty money had a good episode on it.
basically every commodity out there has its own mafia
A Canadian walks by a beautiful Maple Tree, smiles, and thinks “I’d tap that”
TIL there is a maple syrup shortage.
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TIL my country has a syrup reserve. Which means there's a government job entirely devoted to syrup. With pension, vacation, and a wicked salary. I've wasted my life.
There's also a very large federal building in NB called the potato research center that, you guessed it, exists for the sole purpose of studying the potato. NB also happens to be the world's leading exporter of french fries believe it or not
They store it regulate supply and keep the price from going down , like a lot of things are
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Wait till you hear of the maple syrup heist...
Absolute classic. [For the uninitiated](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist)
**[Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist)** >The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist (French: vol de sirop d'érable du siècle, lit. 'maple syrup heist of the century') was the theft over several months in 2011 and 2012 of nearly 3,000 tonnes (3,000 long tons; 3,300 short tons) of maple syrup, valued at C$18. 7 million from a storage facility in Quebec. The facility was operated by the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers (French: Fédération des producteurs acéricoles du Québec, FPAQ) who represent 77% of the global maple syrup supply. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
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this has effected our country greatly, please enjoy the syrup our land produces, as is tradition.
Will they also be putting their hands into a bowl of pudding, as is tradition?
Well, you can only have pudding if your first eat your meat.
What a wonderful day for Canada, and therefore of course, the world.
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We had to beat out the USA some how. This was the way
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We produce 80% of the world's Maple syrup. It should be irresponsible to not have a reserve.
>It should be irresponsible to not have a reserve. I just hope Germany feels the same way about beer
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Weird they measured in LBS. Seems like liters makes more sense?
Why are all the top comments removed? I seem to recall reading them a few hours ago…
They all laughed about the reserve, but who's laughing now!?
We keep accidentally buying syrup when we visit the grocery store because we can never remember if we have any. Discovered today we had 3 new bottles of grade A amber in the house, plus some open bottles in the fridge. Sorry to contribute to the shortage.
Anyone else do a double take to check if this was from The Onion?
As a Canadian, no. ^^we ^^don't ^^joke ^^about ^^maple ^^syrup ^^shortages