"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in
:

> "Michel Boucher" > wrote
>>>
>>> True, them Frenchies in Quebec are equally arrogant to
>>> everyone not born there.
>>
>> It's maple syrup, not politics, but I guess to you it is
>> politics.
>
> Even you
> comment about low grades of maple syrup for tourists fits
> right in.

I'm not a trucker, so this obviously doesn't apply to me. "Me"
comment is an observation, which I've clarified here in the past
and must do so again...*sigh*.

As it happens, the A grade is consumed almost exclusively
locally. Some does make its way to foreign lands as gifts for
Canadians abroad. But we don't hide it. It's on sale in stores
everywhere.

For some reason, tourists, whether French, English, Latvian or
Chinese, unused as they are to eating good maple syrup, prefer
the darker stuff because they *think* it's sweeter. So the lower
grades are preferred by tourists and the highest grade by locals.
It works out well that way.

If the tourists developed a taste for the A grade, we would be in
a bit of a pickle, but so far it has not caused any major
international incidents.

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help the poor, either we’ve got to pretend that Jesus
was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge
that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy
without condition, and then admit that we just don’t
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