User blog comment:John Foulroberts/Unreleased Phase File Objects/@comment-3281492-20120424231913/@comment-1140008-20120424232522

As said below:

"Additionally, I think I know where the Sugar Canes were. In 2006, at E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo, where big VG companies show off upcoming games) they had demos of Pirates running. These were EXTREMELY early versions of the game that didn't even make it to beta. The main islands were so underdeveloped at the time that they had to make a small island just for E3 testing. Kinda looked like Tortuga. (there are various screens of that around the web) I believe, while looking at one of the videos of an E3 demo, there was a pirate walking through a farm of sugar canes."