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Tue 17 Oct, 2017 12:16 pm
What is the appropriate noun-word or other expression for the discardable left-over or remains of sugar-cane after we chew and suck up its' juice. If I call it "cuds" does it communicate right?. Any other better word than "cuds"?.
Why don't you just google: "how to chew sugar cane"?
The residue of crushed or chewed sugar cane is called bagasse.
@PUNKEY,
I did research on it as you suggested on Google but to no avail, before I asked here.
@iandu76,
The technical/correct term is bagasse when the sugar cane pulp is run through an extractor. The most commonly heard term for the cane left-over from chewing is pulp.
@ehBeth,
ehBeth wrote:
The technical/correct term is bagasse when the sugar cane pulp is run through an extractor. The most commonly heard term for the cane left-over from chewing is pulp.
Well, OK, but my friend born in Guyana talks about spitting out bagasse. Also they say that in Australia and India, whence comes this blog:
Quote:We as children used to eat canes directly cut from the fields. We used to pull out the skin with our teeth, chew the inner fibrous portion thoroughly and then spit out the remaining Bagasse. Our mothers were worried that our teeth would be damaged. So they asked the canes to be cut into manageable pieces, remove the outer skin and then give to us.
A Floridan wrote this
Quote:Then, when the juice was all gone, you got to spit out the residue, called the bagasse, without anyone getting mad at your bad manners.
@centrox,
I think people who live in sugar-producing countries are more likely to use bagasse, since they're used to the extraction language.
The rest of the world - pulp. I hear it in our Chinatowns regularly.
@ehBeth,
@ehBeth. Useful additional information indeed.
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