One my favorite new activities is eating the plentiful sugar cane. You either get lucky and have someone give you a section from their own plot or you buy a long five foot section from a street vendor (it costs 120 Guyanese or around 75 cents US). Chop that up into managable sections, around this size pictured here, then put it in the fridge if you can wait that long so that it gets cold. The first step in eating it is to remove the green husk. You can do this with a knife, but really it is much more fun to do with your teeth. It takes a little while to figure out how to do it and not break something, but eventually there is this side bite with the canines that splinters it and then you pull with the front teeth till you can grip it with your hand and hopefully tear it the entire length. It really is faster than a knife and you don't waste as much of the precious interior. Plus you can eat it in front of other people and they don't laugh at you. You only have to be careful around the joints, which are much harder.