If you happen to like maple syrup and science fiction, look up the book "Live Free or Die" by John Ringo. After first contact, the alien traders are not interested in 'folk art' like the Mona Lisa but... "Maple syrup?" Spuler asked, incredulously. "They're addicted to maple syrup?" "Shhhh!" Tyler said. "Christ, now everybody's going to know!" "Their chemistry is incompatible with ours," Agent Poore said. "How can they metabolize it?" "No clue," Tyler said. "But they reacted like it was booze or something." "We saw the reaction," Spuler said, waving at the cameras. Tyler corners the syrup market and proceeds to save the world, and get royally rich.

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