When I was a kid, the family was camping in a state park in California which had quite a few racoons that were used to getting goodies from the tourists.

They are clean animals and often wash their food in a creek if they can.

I took a few sugar cubes from the family food storage and placed then near the creek.

A large racoon soon came up and took one back to the washed it.

It looked a bit puzzled when when his little food treasue dissapeared.

He took another sugar cube back to the creek and the same thing happened.

Third try he grabbed a suger cube where it sat and ate it with a vengeance.