the sugar

#11. Belizeans love their sugar, and lots of it. Sugarcane is one of the major crops grown in Belize, so there is rarely a shortage (except at the holidays, and then it's almost impossible to find sugar), and they take full advantage of its abundance. Candy, coffee, juice, cokes, cookies, you name it, the people love it. The entire country runs on a constant sugar rush, and you often find venders waiting outside the schools, manning a cart that is brimming with enough sweets and junk food to be worthy of a county fair. It's either a sweet tooth's heaven or a dentist's hell, depending on your perspective, but the country definitely has a passion for sugar.