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Fire up the griddle! Stolen syrup recovered
Pancake house patrons across North America, rejoice! Canadian authorities apparently have recovered a huge quantity of maple syrup stolen from a warehouse in August.
Quebec provincial police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police executed a search warrant last week at an export company in the province of New Brunswick, CNN affiliate CBC reported.
Etienne St.-Pierre, the export company's owner, told the CBC he bought the syrup from one of his regular suppliers, but police hauled it away in trucks. St.-Pierre's attorney, Sarto Landry, said St.-Pierre had no reason to believe the product was stolen, according to the Globe and Mail in Toronto.
“We can’t easily identify the syrup, it’s not like buying a car or buying a house,” he told the paper. “At the moment, there’s a presumption that the product that was bought ... was in no way related to a deceitful transaction.”
It's not known exactly how much syrup was stolen or how much was recovered, but the product originally stored in the Quebec warehouse where the theft occurred was worth more than $30 million, according to the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers.
“We know that it’s millions of dollars that was stolen,” the Globe and Mail quoted Quebec police Sgt. Richard Gagné as saying. “It’s a very large amount.”
The Globe and Mail said the amount seized was 119,000 liters, or about 31,400 gallons, but other Canadian news outlets gave different estimates. Police escorted a convoy of 16 trailer-loads of syrup from New Brunswick to a storage facility in Quebec, the Globe and Mail reported.
Quebec produces 70% to 80% of the world's maple syrup, according to the producers federation.
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Has anyone questioned Aunt Jemima yet? Seem like an obvious place to start.
I bet Mrs. Butterworth tried to frame Aunt Jemima. Butterworth seems like the shady type.
No need to worry about Aunt Jemimah or Butterworthless....there is not one drop of maple in that crapola. It is total high fructose corn syrup.
All those American syrups are FAKE crud.
Have you not read the fine print on the back of the Aunt Jemimah label:
"No maple trees were molested in the making of this syrup"
...there's only one thing worse in this universe and that's no Aunt Jemima at all...
Dangit! Now your making me hungry for a late night breakfast... 😉
Does anyone do math anymore? At wholesale of $25 per gallon it would have to be 1.2 MILLION gallons. A far cry from 31,000 gallons reported.
I like GRILLED sammies... how bout you? lol ... being silly
True, but I am sure that the wholesale value and what they told their insurance company are two very different numbers.
Debate over the price per unit aside, they didn't confirm they'd recovered ALL off the syrup, just a very large amount of it. Perhaps there's still more out there to be recovered.
It's not like you could fence the whole 1.2 mil gallons at once.....they would have to pour it off a bit at a time.
That's it, I'm making waffles with maple syrup of course and 3 slices of pepperoni pizza.
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Keep on making a fool of yourself and I will.
"Does anyone do math anymore? At wholesale of $25 per gallon it would have to be 1.2 MILLION gallons. A far cry from 31,000 gallons reported"
street value is always retail, and heavily stepped on. $30 million price is those little packets you get in fast food joints and cut with pine sap
I'd love to hear what their fence said...
The owner initially denied wrongdoing, but during police interrogation he later waffled.
like what is wrong with canada? Seriously.
Aside from producing jobs at 5x the rate (per person) of the U.S. and not having as much debt, nothing.
I doubt you'll find real quality maple syrup in "pancake houses across American". 99% of the time it's flavored corn syrup.
Canada is cool.
They only found 31,000 ..... that's nothing. Let us know when the the more than one million that was stolen.