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.
Sugar shaped a good deal of history of the New World. By 1520 cane was growing in Mexico, and the Spanish explorer Cortez established the first North American sugar mill there in 1535. Cultivation soon spread to Peru, Brazil, Columbia, and Venezuela. Puerto Rico had a mill by 1547.