• aeronmelon@lemmy.worldM
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    3 days ago

    The Imperial Sugar refinery in Texas had a building that was literally just piles of sugar. Depending on how recently they had received a shipment, it was either filled to the gills or almost empty.

    There was also an incident in the 1990s when one of the doors collapsed, spilling sugar into the parking lot.

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      People familiar with agriculture won’t find this odd at all, soybeans and corn are stored in silos and grain bins and moved to semis and train cars and then buildings like this. I’m honestly not sure how else people think this is done… it doesn’t grow in packet form on the sugarcane plant.