Posted on 12/08/2021 4:41:34 PM PST by dynachrome
Global supply shortages have hit toy shops in the US and coffee producers in Brazil. In Canada, the country's liquid gold - maple syrup - is running low.
The Quebec Maple Syrup Producers (QMSP) - the so-called Opec of maple syrup - has released about 22m kg from its emergency larder, nearly half the total in reserve.
Booming demand and a shortened harvest had caused the shortfall, QMSP said.
It is the first time in three years the reserve has been used.
"That's why the reserve is made, to never miss maple syrup. And we won't miss maple syrup!" Helene Normandin of QMSP told US public radio.
Quebec produces almost three-quarters of the world's maple syrup.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Satire, right?
The idea is quite amusing.
Dudley Doo-right should be a Security Guard.
Meanwhile, down in Hershey, Pennslyvania, can you guess what the topic is there?
I like karo syrup , blame the military ,LOL
Not the Babylon Bee?
Maybe they should sell their emergency maple syrup reserves off to the Russians and then buy it from the Saudis at inflated prices!
They hollowed out huge underground caverns beneath Tweed, Fraserville, and Codrington, and stored away billions of barrels of maple syrup, in case there is a world war.
They better not try to send it here through a pipeline or Biden would shut it down.
Buy you Maple Syrup from this kid!/http://www.wanishsugarbush.com/
Yeah, I noticed how expensive maple syrup - the real stuff, not Mrs Butterworth - was getting.
Good for him! May he prosper.
Too bad these Canadians don’t also have a strategic bacon reserve.
Maple trees are maple trees. What’s so different about Canadian maple trees. Last night I had some Beaver horse radish. I wonder where it’s from?
Chocolypse?
$78/gallon wow.
There are many types of maple tree, but ONLY the sugar maple is good for making syrup. Really
Just because, where exactly are ISR's now?
Beaver horseradish is made by Beaverton Foods in Oregon (the company moved to Hillsboro about twenty years ago).
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