Posted on 06/11/2018 1:50:10 PM PDT by llevrok
Sounds a bit cheesy but okay; I'll bite.
“The last time I went to Canada, I stopped at an A&W. The prices in Canada were quite a bit higher than in the USA.”
yes, but one canadian dollar is worth about 22 percent less than our dollar. might that explain the difference in the prices you saw?
now, if the canadian police officer was buying American cheese with canadian money, wouldn’t it cost him more canadian dollars to buy cheese in the states?
i guess it’s still cheaper to buy stateside to avoid the 270% tariff that canada imposes on American dairy products that makes it a desirable item to smuggle, if you can get away with smuggling it across the border?
so if he went to the states to buy a pizza and took it across the border to canada to eat, would he have to declare it at customs and pay 270% of the original purchase price?
lastly, is American cheese far superior to canadian cheese that a person would find it something they would want to try to smuggle?
No - the US dollar had greater purchasing power, even accounting for the exchange rate.
I had gone to a conference and they had some fruit there - I took an orange for the road. I forgot I had it in the back seat. US Customs questioned us at the border (we had to get out of the car) and I neglected to declare it, but I didn’t get in trouble. As I understand it, US Customs could have seized it.
I haven’t tried going the other way (into Canadian customs)
I wish. I am just good at doing image searches on Google.
Next month, we’re going to smuggle Buffalo wings, Cuba cheese, and Weber’s mustard from NY to TN. Hope we don’t get caught. ;)
One of the busiest Costco's is in Bellingham WA. Canadians come from the Vancouver area on the week ends and load up on eggs, cheese and milk. Even with a tariff when they cross back home, they are still ahead of the game.
He told the cops it was cheddar. They felt it was Swiss as his story had all sorts of holes in it.
SHUT THAT BLOODY BOUZOUKI OFF!
Thanks to Junior Trudeau...Canada is not Canada anymore. Last time I was there...1966...we camped in a gorgeous park on the Lac du Sables. The clean fresh air...the ice cold lake water...the companionable other campers...the Boulanger coming thru every morning with hot French bread and exquisite Napoleons! So sad that it is gone forever.
LOL
Remember the I Love Lucy episode where Lucy smuggled cheese in the musical instruments of Desi’s band on a plane trip home from Cuba? She at first pretended the cloth wrapped cheese was an infant. The woman in the plane seat next to her asked if it was a boy or a girl and Lucy said a boy,I suppose. Asked the name, she said “Cheddar, I mean Chester.”
Great.
Thanks to all the cheese photos, I had to get a slice of smoked/aged cheddar to go with my afternoon Ghirardelli snack!
It was a loophole in hafta. Tradeau closed it without US consent.
lol- no- don’t remember tha one- what a great show that was-
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