Mr. Sugar Cane wakes up one morning and is suddenly hacked down before he can even brush his teeth.
He’s transported to a barbaric contraption at the far end of the field which crushes him to death and squeezes all of the juice out from his body.
Just as things can’t get any worse, his juice squirts out through an underground tube into a big cauldron which then ‘boils him right up’, fuelled by the heat from his burning straw body beneath.
A few hours later, he’s rolled up into balls and chucked into a sack with 30kg worth of his old compadres. They’re later shipped off to market and sold for the princely sum of $10.
This is the story of how Sugar Cane became JAGGERY.
Jaggery - also known as ‘GUR’ is an unrefined, healthier alternative to sugar. 70% of the world’s production comes from India.
