How does one siphon syrup? I would think the thickness of it would make that task impossible
Every nation stockpiles vital resources — think of the U.S. Petroleum Reserve, for instance. In Canada, they have warehouses holding millions of pounds of maple syrup. And recently, one of them was the site of what may be "the sweetest heist of all time," as The Vancouver Sun reports.
The Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, which announced the theft Thursday, says that a routine check of its reserves found a warehouse in St-Louis-de-Blandford, northeast of Montreal, had been hit by thieves.
"In total, the burglarized warehouse held over 10 million pounds of maple syrup amounting to over 30 million dollars in value," according to the syrup federation.
That figure is in Canadian dollars. At current exchange rates, it represents $30.4 million. And the criminals seem to have been very crafty, siphoning the syrup into other containers so they
