Comments on: A sappy ending?

A sappy ending?

anaphoric — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:12:47 -0800

About a month ago we learned in the blue that a large amount of maple syrup had been stolen from a Quebec warehouse. Yesterday, the RCMP seized a large amount of maple syrup from an export company in New Brunswick. The export company's owner claims that he purchased the syrup from one of his regular suppliers. The recovered syrup was escorted to parts unknown in Quebec by provincial police cars. As the Chicago Tribune notes, "Plot thickens as Quebec police seize cache of maple syrup" ...

By: Greg_Ace

Greg_Ace — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:15:46 -0800

"Plot thickens as Quebec police seize cache of maple syrup" I see what they did there.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:15:58 -0800

A welcome distraction for Canada's pizza cheese smugglers, I'm sure.

By: Marie Mon Dieu

Marie Mon Dieu — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:17:16 -0800

This is why I buy my maple syrup from Mike down the road from me.

By: Kabanos

Kabanos — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:19:28 -0800

They may have tapped into something larger here...

By: sammyo

sammyo — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:21:55 -0800

I'm like so totally looking forward to the Dan Brown novel.

By: Floydd

Floydd — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:23:57 -0800

I'm sure the RCMP snuck up on this guy syrup-titiously.

By: zippy

zippy — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:24:11 -0800

The ~~love~~ sugar shack is a little ol' place where ...

By: nathancaswell

nathancaswell — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:25:08 -0800

What a sticky situation.

By: lineofsight

lineofsight — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:28:41 -0800

I'm still amazed that people would bother to steal syrup. Unless there's something about maple futures I don't know about?

By: Ghostride The Whip

Ghostride The Whip — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:30:25 -0800

At least Canada's long national nightmare has been solved.

By: Evstar

Evstar — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:35:11 -0800

Blood is thick, but syrup is thicker. Think about it. -Aunt Jemima

By: mediocre

mediocre — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:38:51 -0800

Damn it! The one time I don't bring my Canadian Joke Generator with me..

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:44:33 -0800

The green bastard, parts unknown! /bubbles

By: notme

notme — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:54:46 -0800

The sweet taste of justice.

By: ODiV

ODiV — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:03:36 -0800

That's Canadian Joke Generatour, mediocre.

By: tommasz

tommasz — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:06:20 -0800

Meanwhile, at the Montpelier Mercantile Exchange, syrup futures just crashed.

By: ceribus peribus

ceribus peribus — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:15:10 -0800

Now that this crisis is over, we can work on salvaging the NHL season.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:16:27 -0800

Informal poll: how many of you pronounce it suhrup, and how many say seerup?

By: sourcequench

sourcequench — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:16:42 -0800

Is brilliant plan, but how will help rid world of moose and squirrel?

By: oneswellfoop

oneswellfoop — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:20:43 -0800

No, sourcequench, that was obviously a Snidely Whiplash plot, foiled by the brilliant work of Dudley Do-Right.....'s horse.

By: Killick

Killick — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:20:47 -0800

What it all boils down to is the exporter sounds like a real sap.

By: oneswellfoop

oneswellfoop — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:22:55 -0800

I'll bet at least one detective assigned to the case said "IHOP right onto it!"

By: axiom

axiom — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:30:11 -0800

I'm still amazed that people would bother to steal syrup. Really? It's obviously because that stuff is delicious.

By: ceribus peribus

ceribus peribus — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:33:42 -0800

flapjax(heh) : The French pronounce it sirop, while les Anglophones say syrup.

By: Bwithh

Bwithh — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:52:23 -0800

Flashback to Gawker's snarky coverage for those catching up

By: bicyclefish

bicyclefish — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:55:54 -0800

In other Canadian news, "a Lethbridge man is cleared of running a huge grow-up when 1,624 plants seized by police proved to be daisies."

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:17:01 -0800

I'll bet at least one detective assigned to the case said "IHOP right onto it!" Fun fact: the IHOP in Vermont is the only one in the US to serve real maple syrup. It was also the last state in the US to even have an IHOP.

By: nowhere man

nowhere man — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:29:32 -0800

Sounds like the work of the Bandit if you ask me. Heck, I'll bet he's truckin' that sweet haul eastbound and down to Big Enos' Pancake Festival right now.

By: smirkette

smirkette — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:30:26 -0800

For once, we leaf it to the authorities, and they came through! Informal poll: how many of you pronounce it suhrup, and how many say seerup? I say neither: sir-up.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:41:46 -0800

I say neither: sir-up. That's what I meant by "suhrup", actually. I'm from Alabama, see, so it's pretty much the same thing! Ha! But, yeah, your "sir-up" is probably a better spelling to give the pronunciation I'm talking about.

By: mannequito

mannequito — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:00:37 -0800

S'rup Brah?

By: flaterik

flaterik — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:01:44 -0800

It was also the last state in the US to even have an IHOP. I was about 87% sure that the IHOP near me in Santa Monica still existed, so I checked their website, and there are 23 of them in the greater LA area. Is there something urgent I need to know about which country I live in??

By: BlueHorse

BlueHorse — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:04:40 -0800

I don't know what ya'll say, but when I eat my flapjacks, it's slurrrup! Both said their firm was being scapegoated because they have often clashed in the past with the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers. This is what happens when you don't adhere to the rules. It's a tacky situation, and now they're in a jam. Tomorrow I will raise my fork high over my waffle in salute to the RCMP. As for the idiots that pulled up the daisies thinking they were pot.... But hey, the guy only had them on his lawn for a decade, and they don't even look close to pot. Anybody could make that mistake, amirite?

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:06:12 -0800

"Plot thickens as Quebec police seize cache of maple syrup" I see what they did there, eh? FTFY.

By: Greg_Ace

Greg_Ace — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:07:00 -0800

Y'awnt sum sirp on'at?

By: kinnakeet

kinnakeet — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:16:27 -0800

I'm surprised they didn't just cook the stuff down to make maple sugar. It would have been easier to store and hide. And besides, syrup is lovely and everything but maple sugar is one step beyond. One big, sweet, sugary step beyond.

By: BWA

BWA — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:21:09 -0800

One of the tropes of the novel Out! The Vermont Secession Book was the use of maple syrup as the gold standard behind an independent Vermont's currency. Fun book.

By: ph00dz

ph00dz — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:26:36 -0800

I soooooo want to know the full story behind this.

By: Ghostride The Whip

Ghostride The Whip — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:48:00 -0800

First it was the syrup thieves, then it was the cheese-smuggling cops. Canada is falling apart!

By: Greg_Ace

Greg_Ace — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:57:02 -0800

Roses are red Violets are purple Sugar is sweet And so is maple slurple

By: mubba

mubba — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:08:20 -0800

Obviously, some Canadian super-villain is about to top the Great Molasses Flood of 1919, with maple syrup!

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:13:13 -0800

I fuckin' love you guys, I really do.

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:21:52 -0800

Thank goodness, I can take my syrup out from it's hiding place under my grow op of daisies.

By: ubiquity

ubiquity — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:34:39 -0800

Syrup this time, last time it was vegetable shortening. They had to have an enormous audit of all their food stocks... you must have heard about it... The Count of Mountie Crisco?

By: dirigibleman

dirigibleman — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:44:16 -0800

The shit leaves are falling from the shit maple.

By: bukvich

bukvich — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:17:47 -0800

Jessamyn we got IHOP's in Texas so I am guessing I don't get your joke. They are not like the IHOP's of my youth, more like a faux-Denny's so maybe you got an oltimey IHOP's in Vermont? (The thing with the IHOP when I was a kid was they had a carousel tray on the table with thirty different flavors of pancake syrup. And the menu had thirty styles pancakes. So you could eat there 900 days in a row and have something sort of different every day. I haven't seen that since I was a kid.)

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:20:06 -0800

Jessamyn we got IHOP's in Texas so I am guessing I don't get your joke. I may have said it wrong. There are two interesting things about IHOP and Vermont 1. All other IHOPs serve fake, non-maple syrup 2. Vermont was the 50th state in the US to get an IHOP because of #1 and the wrangling they needed to do to get it to happen

By: bukvich

bukvich — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:21:28 -0800

D'oh!

By: wierdo

wierdo — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:23:01 -0800

Is it illegal to sell "maple syrup" in Vermont, or is its consumption just frowned upon as it is by all good people everywhere?

By: eviemath

eviemath — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 23:13:13 -0800

IHOP hasn't really made it to Canada, just a few in BC, and two in Niagara Falls, ON.

By: Skygazer

Skygazer — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:38:37 -0800

Pancakes.

By: Pruitt-Igoe

Pruitt-Igoe — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 01:06:10 -0800

IHOP in Vermont, previously

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 02:49:39 -0800

You know, sometimes you folks are seriously rude and insensitive. Maple Syrup isn't some jokey ketchup kind of crap. It's very serious, natural, sweet, tasty, goodness! One would think it was some manufactured sugar gloop being discussed here. I know from decades of investigation and experience, most American folks have never even tasted real maple syrup. It was about 30 years ago I tried it myself, and discovered it took a fraction of this real thing, compared to Mrs. Butterworth's, to satisfy a pancake. w00t! Never looked back. It's the only thing I'll use. I've only this year discovered that the syrup is routinely sold in Quebec in cans, like soup, rather than bottles. That's wonderful, as it makes it worlds easier to bring home in a suitcase! LOL! Also easier to have shipped. :-) Oh, and the best part: darker qualities are available than are easy to find elsewhere. Dark = more flavor. Light = more sugar. Just so you know. So far, the best I've found is Beaurivage, medium. From St. Sylvestre, Quebec.

By: Secret Life of Gravy

Secret Life of Gravy — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 05:52:26 -0800

I have a confession to make. I'm not all that crazy about maple syrup. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the Mounties got their man...or whatever...but maple flavor is only good in one form. Maple Bars. Yep. And now that I've stopped eating carbs there will be no Maple bars, no maple sugar and not much maple syrup in my future. I still have a can of syrup in the cupboard, though. Every once in a while I come across a recipe that needs a tablespoon or two.

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 06:59:02 -0800

Savoir-Faire is everywhere!

By: Jahaza

Jahaza — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:07:27 -0800

Syrup, sirrah!

By: Skygazer

Skygazer — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:52:49 -0800

Fuckin' Maple Syrup thieves. Where do they get off, eh??