is everything!
Posted on 09/10/2012 4:09:23 AM PDT by nuconvert
On Friday, news broke that thieves had stolen $30 million dollars worth of Quebec's strategic maple syrup reserves. Much as the United States keeps a stock of extra oil buried in underground salt caverns to use in case of a geopolitical emergency, the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers has been managing warehouses full of surplus sweetener since 2000. The crooks seem to have made off with more than a quarter of the province's backup supply.
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Except that voters there are pushing in that direction. The separatist party just made a major advancement in taking over the QC government. (My wife lived there when the vote to secede failed by a hair; that was too close for advocates to give up.)
The Maritime provinces take it for granted QC will secede, severing their geographic connection to the rest of Canada, and it's a given (to them) they will just become the 51st, 52nd, and 53rd states of the USA. (My parents vacation there on a regular basis; the locals consider US annexation a foregone conclusion.)
It’s not run by the government. It’s just the nickname that private companies gave to their own stockpile.
To pay tribute to the bears.
I neglected to add before...... making maple syrup perhaps earns the greatest reward for the least effort of about anything I have done.
is everything!
“He should then have pointed to a pine and said that is a sugar maple and is what you need to be tapping.”
I have some pines outside my garage and have used the sap
(reduced with alcohol) for soldering flux for years. Works
great and makes the shop smell good!
They wear pancakes on their heads when they hunt bunnies? Those wily Canadians.
The Atlantic keeps a strategic reserve of crap in their basement in case they don’t have enough one month for their magazine.
We have two trees, each about 16-18 inches in diameter (at tap height).
In a good year, we got between a pint and a quart of syrup.
It’s not economically sensible for us in that quantity. One year we boiled it down on the electric stove. We probably used enough electricity to buy twice what we made.
The reasons we did it were curiosity, and as a homeschooling project.
HINT: there’s a reason the pros do it OUTDOORS.
Can anyone spell Teapot Dome?
LOL
More than likely especially since the empty barrels just so happened to be discovered as the reserve was being prepared for shipment to a new warehouse.
That would be tragic.
I have driven across Canada and up the Al Can highway. The Canadians that I met and worked with seemed to have a different world view? I cannot say just what is different, but they are.
Away from the big cities very friendly and helpful.
I understand.
I married one.
My friends and countrymen, we must ask ourselves
why there is a Maple Syrup gap and what can we
as concerned citizens DO about it.
In concluding, something must be done about
the Maple Syrup loop hole. The days of just
anyone going into a store and buying Maple Syrup
should be over, the same with Syrup sold on the
street and out of the backs of cars, this practice
must STOP.
Anyone have the Picture??????
Apparently, the best-kept secret outside of Canada is that other Canadian provinces would be perfectly content -- no, make that thrilled -- to have Quebec put an end to that idiocy known as "the two solitudes" up there and leave Canada. That's why Quebec will never do it. Their economy would collapse under the enormous burden of their own provincial socialism, and they'd spend about 30 years trying to figure out how to negotiate their way into the North American Free Trade Agreement. Then they'll probably blow their collective brains out when they learn that ebonics is a more common language for conducting business on this continent than French.
Canuck Bump
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