1 hour ago, Smithy said:
Sugar cane was (and I presume still is) common in parts of Egypt as well. Vendors had street stalls where they'd squeeze the canes to fill cups with juice. Local kids, and my pals and I, would occasionally snatch a stray stalk from a donkey cart as it was being pulled down the road after harvest. One stalk provided a lot of short pieces to share around! In the absence of pocket knives, we'd just brush off the cane and chew the stalk to get the juice. Very sweet indeed.
I remember the stalk as being green, rather than the purple in your photo. Are there different varieties of sugar cane? (Short answer: yes! I had no idea until I went looking! Here's one writeup, from juicedfresh.com.)
Yes. Same here. We get the green skinned variety, too but purple is much more more common.
