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sugarcane
@youless (114117)
Guangzhou, China
November 19, 2023 2:24am CST
I occasionally saw a video. It is about a foreigner and her Chinese friend had a walk in the street. There was a street vendor sold sugarcane. The Chinese felt surprised as this girl said they were bamboos. And this girl even surprised that this kind of "bamboo" could be eaten. I know sugarcane can make into sugar. In the past we also liked to eat these but not that much since it was a challenge to the teeth We don't eat it much today. In my country there are many sugarcane fields in the south. I know probably it is the same in Cuba. Perhaps the sugarcane is not available in Europe and North America and this is why this girl hasn't seen it before.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (174376)
• United States
19 Nov 23
Sugarcane grows well in the Southern part of the US at least up to Missouri. My daughter and I had it growing in our yard at the house we lived in for over 22 years. We also grew Green-striped Bamboo in our yard. Both plants look very similar to us and many other people. It's entirely possible the foreigner had never seen sugarcane growing. I'm sure the majority of North Americans have only seen it in pictures or online. And, as far as I know, nobody in North America harvests sugarcane to sell as-is or to eat as-is. It is grown to harvest and make into cane sugar. Edit to add: This is a picture of the sugarcane we had growing in our yard. It's the type that North Americans see in pictures and online here. While we grew it, Pretty would harvest some every Fall and boil it down to make syrup that we could use to sweeten drinks or use in place of sugar when we baked. Photo is mine.
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youless
@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
20 Nov 23
@DaddyEvil We don't boil it. We just use the machine to squeeze the sugarcane as well as the oranges. But of course the machines are quite different
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youless
@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
19 Nov 23
That's cool you can grow it in your yard. Do you consume it as the syrup? We call it as a sugarcane juice here. There is a machine and you put the sugarcane inside, and the juice will be squeezed.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (174376)
• United States
19 Nov 23
@youless We used the syrup to sweeten drinks and in cookies when I baked them from scratch. I've never seen sugarcane juice... we don't drink it here. The sugarcane syrup is boiled out of the stalks and we boil it until it's too thick to drink. It pours slow and is very sweet.
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Marie
@Tampa_girl7 (54715)
• United States
19 Nov 23
I have seen it here in the past.
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youless
@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
19 Nov 23
It may not grow in your side.
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youless
@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
20 Nov 23
@Tampa_girl7 Thanks for telling me this
Marie
@Tampa_girl7 (54715)
• United States
19 Nov 23
@youless it does grow here.
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Amber
@AmbiePam (120697)
• United States
19 Nov 23
Sugarcane grows in North America. The girl has probably only seen what it looks like once it is sold in the store. It is grown especially in Louisiana and Florida, although you can find sugarcane fields in Texas too.
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youless
@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
20 Nov 23
Now I learned something new, thank you!
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May2k8
@May2k8 (19788)
• Indonesia
19 Nov 23
It is widely available in Indonesia become as sugar.
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youless
@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
19 Nov 23
Indonesia is a tropical country and sugarcane shall grow well there.
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May2k8
@May2k8 (19788)
• Indonesia
19 Nov 23
@youless Yes, it was also used for fences in the past.
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changjiangzhibin89
@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)
• China
19 Nov 23
The sugarcane seems not to be the indigenous plant where the girl lives.
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youless
@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
19 Nov 23
I think so, too. But it is funny to hear that she said it's "bamboo"
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382019)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 Nov 23
We were given sugar cane to eat when we were in Egypt.
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youless
@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
19 Nov 23
It is something new for me to learn that Egyptians also eat sugarcane as well as us
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382019)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Nov 23
@youless They grow it near Luxor on the banks of the Nile.
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Judy Story
@jstory07 (148731)
• Roseburg, Oregon
19 Nov 23
The foreigner might not know anything about sugarcane.
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youless
@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
19 Nov 23
Obviously, and this is why I think perhaps sugarcane doesn't even grow in Europe or North America.
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Margaret Mwangi
@Missmwngi (12915)
• Nairobi, Kenya
21 Nov 23
Sugarcane is a thing in our country. Easily found on streets for buying as you passby
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youless
@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
22 Nov 23
I think they can grow well in warm places
Loretta
@noni1959 (13035)
• United States
20 Nov 23
When I was a little girl, my mom would buy us kids a sugarcane, coconut and honeycomb. They were such treats from the local market. I loved biting into the cane and sucking the sweet out. I didn't know they get that big. I guess they cut them down for the stores.
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youless
@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
20 Nov 23
Some sugarcanes are very big, like the attached image. There are also other kinds of sugarcane and they are green, one are also big and the other are small.
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Loretta
@noni1959 (13035)
• United States
20 Nov 23
@youless I remember the ones mom got us were the color of the photo. I miss getting them.
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M Cheung
@Beestring (15373)
• Hong Kong
19 Nov 23
I love to drink freshly squeezed sugar cane juice.
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youless
@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
19 Nov 23
Yes, it tastes very well.
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