In Barbados, life is sweet—literally. The end of the sugar season is cause for celebration, and Crop Over, which refers to the crop being over at the end of the back-breaking summer harvest, was originally formed as a way to close out the once-thriving sugar industry, when workers would have a final blowout before conserving wages until the next crop. While tourism has replaced sugar as the main source of income on the islands, the Crop Over festival is still celebrated with reckless abandon.