Riverdale got it right. The evil Canadian maple syrup mafia is putting
fake product onto grocery shelves, according to Radio Canada
investigation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhkO7lO9rdk
On 2026-07-11 12:20 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Riverdale got it right. The evil Canadian maple syrup mafia is putting
fake product onto grocery shelves, according to Radio Canada
investigation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhkO7lO9rdk
As the Romans figured out millennia ago: "Caveat emptor!" (Let the buyer >beware.) There have always been crooks. It's hard to picture a time
where that won't be true....
Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2026-07-11 12:20 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Riverdale got it right. The evil Canadian maple syrup mafia is putting
fake product onto grocery shelves, according to Radio Canada
investigation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhkO7lO9rdk
As the Romans figured out millennia ago: "Caveat emptor!" (Let the buyer
beware.) There have always been crooks. It's hard to picture a time
where that won't be true....
The video said there is, by law, a maple syrup cartel, and they store
syrup to keep it off the market, I assume to keep prices higher. There
are strict limits on who can buy and sell in Quebec.
This is entirely evil as the tv series said.
On 2026-07-11 6:52 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2026-07-11 12:20 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Riverdale got it right. The evil Canadian maple syrup mafia is putting >>>>fake product onto grocery shelves, according to Radio Canada >>>>investigation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhkO7lO9rdk
As the Romans figured out millennia ago: "Caveat emptor!" (Let the buyer >>>beware.) There have always been crooks. It's hard to picture a time
where that won't be true....
The video said there is, by law, a maple syrup cartel, and they store
syrup to keep it off the market, I assume to keep prices higher. There
are strict limits on who can buy and sell in Quebec.
This is entirely evil as the tv series said.
I'm not disagreeing with you. I regard monopolies and near-monopolies as >extremely undesireable but they were long a part of Canadian life. Back
in the day, we had a single airline (Air Canada), a single phone company >(Bell), etc. and it was very good for those companies and many of us
were sure we were being screwed over. Starting under Brian Mulroney, the >monopolies finally ended but rather than seeing things get much cheaper,
we tend to find we've got three or maybe four choices but none of them
are great and there doesn't seem to be as much competition or downward >pressure on prices as some of us anticipated.
My remarks about "caveat emptor" were in reference to the adulterated
maple syrup. Consumers still have to keep their eyes open and recognize
that all the regulations in the world are not going to guarantee that
they always get fairly treated: some businesses are just going to screw
you over. I'm sure the instinctive reaction of almost every Canadian to
that segment would be insist that the regulator for bottled maple syrup
also regulate canned maple syrup but that's just going to add costs and >raise prices when everything is already expensive and getting worse by
the week.
Sometimes, it's smarter to note that a given brand sucks and switch to a >different brand than to create or expand regulatory agencies.
Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2026-07-11 6:52 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2026-07-11 12:20 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Riverdale got it right. The evil Canadian maple syrup mafia is putting >>>>> fake product onto grocery shelves, according to Radio Canada
investigation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhkO7lO9rdk
As the Romans figured out millennia ago: "Caveat emptor!" (Let the buyer >>>> beware.) There have always been crooks. It's hard to picture a time
where that won't be true....
The video said there is, by law, a maple syrup cartel, and they store
syrup to keep it off the market, I assume to keep prices higher. There
are strict limits on who can buy and sell in Quebec.
This is entirely evil as the tv series said.
I'm not disagreeing with you. I regard monopolies and near-monopolies as
extremely undesireable but they were long a part of Canadian life. Back
in the day, we had a single airline (Air Canada), a single phone company
(Bell), etc. and it was very good for those companies and many of us
were sure we were being screwed over. Starting under Brian Mulroney, the
monopolies finally ended but rather than seeing things get much cheaper,
we tend to find we've got three or maybe four choices but none of them
are great and there doesn't seem to be as much competition or downward
pressure on prices as some of us anticipated.
My remarks about "caveat emptor" were in reference to the adulterated
maple syrup. Consumers still have to keep their eyes open and recognize
that all the regulations in the world are not going to guarantee that
they always get fairly treated: some businesses are just going to screw
you over. I'm sure the instinctive reaction of almost every Canadian to
that segment would be insist that the regulator for bottled maple syrup
also regulate canned maple syrup but that's just going to add costs and
raise prices when everything is already expensive and getting worse by
the week.
I don't see why mandatory testing is required. If the shopper wants
that, he has the choice of a certified brand. The one thing the fake
producer didn't do was falsify certification/
When I read this, I couldn't imagine why the syrup was being canned and
not bottled.
Sometimes, it's smarter to note that a given brand sucks and switch to a
different brand than to create or expand regulatory agencies.
Yeah. Seriously, how was this guy the first to notice that it obviously wasn't pure maple syrup?
On 2026-07-11 3:54 p.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
When I read this, I couldn't imagine why the syrup was being canned and
not bottled.
Your guess is as good as mine. I've never seen maple syrup in cans in
any supermarket I've ever been in but I've been shopping at a different >chain for 15 or 20 years by now. (I used to shop at Metro back in the day.)
Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2026-07-11 6:52 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2026-07-11 12:20 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Riverdale got it right. The evil Canadian maple syrup mafia is putting >>>>> fake product onto grocery shelves, according to Radio Canada
investigation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhkO7lO9rdk
As the Romans figured out millennia ago: "Caveat emptor!" (Let the buyer >>>> beware.) There have always been crooks. It's hard to picture a time
where that won't be true....
The video said there is, by law, a maple syrup cartel, and they store
syrup to keep it off the market, I assume to keep prices higher. There
are strict limits on who can buy and sell in Quebec.
This is entirely evil as the tv series said.
I'm not disagreeing with you. I regard monopolies and near-monopolies as
extremely undesireable but they were long a part of Canadian life. Back
in the day, we had a single airline (Air Canada), a single phone company
(Bell), etc. and it was very good for those companies and many of us
were sure we were being screwed over. Starting under Brian Mulroney, the
monopolies finally ended but rather than seeing things get much cheaper,
we tend to find we've got three or maybe four choices but none of them
are great and there doesn't seem to be as much competition or downward
pressure on prices as some of us anticipated.
My remarks about "caveat emptor" were in reference to the adulterated
maple syrup. Consumers still have to keep their eyes open and recognize
that all the regulations in the world are not going to guarantee that
they always get fairly treated: some businesses are just going to screw
you over. I'm sure the instinctive reaction of almost every Canadian to
that segment would be insist that the regulator for bottled maple syrup
also regulate canned maple syrup but that's just going to add costs and
raise prices when everything is already expensive and getting worse by
the week.
I don't see why mandatory testing is required. If the shopper wants
that, he has the choice of a certified brand. The one thing the fake
producer didn't do was falsify certification/
When I read this, I couldn't imagine why the syrup was being canned and
not bottled.
Sometimes, it's smarter to note that a given brand sucks and switch to a
different brand than to create or expand regulatory agencies.
Yeah. Seriously, how was this guy the first to notice that it obviously wasn't pure maple syrup?
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