Warning: This post contains spoilers from The Sticky.
A dark comedy series The Sticky, out on Amazon Prime Dec. 6, satirizes a real-life sticky situation: the so-called Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.
The theft a global strategic maple syrup preserve about two hours north of Montreal involved stealing about $18 million worth of maple syrup over several months in 2011 and 2012, making it one of the largest agricultural thefts ever.
Here’s what to know about the maple syrup heist, why it happened, and how the series lampoons the whole debacle.
How the maple syrup heist happened in real life
Quebec is the leading producer of maple syrup in the world. Similar to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the Québec Maple Syrup Producers federation regulates the production of syrup to control its price, putting a quota on how much syrup would sell each year. Surplus syrup was stashed in a rented warehouse …