Maple Syrup Heist Could Make Your Pancake Breakfast More Expensive

Date: Jan 01 2013

Filed under: Economy, Crime, Food & Drink

Maple syrup heistIf you’re relaxing at home enjoying a plate of flapjacks this New Year’s morning, savor it while you can. The brazen theft, over the course of a year, of millions of gallons of maple syrup from Canada’s strategic syrup reserve (yes, there apparently is such a thing), could spell higher prices for the “liquid gold” in 2013.

The mystery began back in August, when the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers was checking inventory at its St.-Louis-de-Blandford warehouse, a key depot in the…

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