In Canada, as well as the U.K. and Australia, December 26 is now better known as a day for scooping up shopping deals, similar to Black Friday in the U.S. Most stores open their doors early and discount prices on items ranging from clothing to technology to appliances.
In the United States, sugar cane is grown commercially in Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Texas and Puerto Rico. It could also be grown, and used to be, in much of Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, and nearly all of Mississippi.
Then, it was being used for making a kind of beer. Sugarcane was introduced into China from India around 800 B.C. Crude sugar was being produced by 400 B.C. and by 700 A.D., it was being commercially exploited by Indians in the Sub-continent.