Sugar

https://www.chsugar.com/our-history Apr 25, 2024 "In 1906, the California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company began refining pure cane sugar in the small town of Crockett, California, near San Francisco. As cargo ships offloaded raw cane sugar from the Hawaiian Islands, the refinery employed 490 people and produced 67,000 tons of refined cane sugar. Today C&H produces cane sugar and molasses for a vast U.S. market. The Crockett refinery processes over 700 thousand tons of cane sugar annually—more than 70 types, grades and package sizes, including packaged consumer sugars as well as packaged, liquid and bulk granulated industrial-use cane sugars." C&H Products

https://www.dominosugar.com/our-story Apr 25, 2024 "August 1905 Construction of the Chalmette Refinery begins. Construction took nearly four years and required 20,000 tons of cement, 10,000 windows and five million bricks produced on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain." Domino Sugar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNjZ1w-l1KU Jun 14, 2011 I always loved the C & H Sugar commercials as a kid, and here's one of the best. robatsea2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtQCcB9xLDw Sep 13, 2017 "From Hawaii. Growin' in the sun..." C&H Pure Cane Sugar commercial featuring a Hawaiian childhood story & famous jingle. Spot aired in 1976. Bionic Disco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v_ufWDT1JI Jan 22, 2024 While inflation is showing signs of easing in many countries at the moment, in the US, one essential commodity keeps getting more expensive: sugar. The US is the world's fifth largest sugar producer, which sugarcane grown in the south and sugar beets in the north. Even though the cost of sugar is rising worldwide, Americans pay twice as much as the global average for sugar because of a government policy. Brought about to protect domestic producers, a protectionist policy taxing imports of sugar is actually creating higher prices, a report by the government accountability office found in October. BBC News