# Sugar loaf **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 5, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-loaf/716874 "2015-04-05T14:26:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-loaf/716874/1 "2015-04-05T14:26:17Z")
Today’s taste of trivia: I always thought Sugar Loaf in Rio was named for some kind of bullet shaped cake or bread, but typical web meandering today brought me to [sugarloaves](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarloaf), the way sugar was sold before granulation. Never knew that. According to Wiki, they required special pliers to break off pieces. I can’t help but think a mallet and small chisel would have worked as well. I guess sugar loaf will be filed in my head right along salt cellar which, interestingly enough, is not a room under a house. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-loaf/716874/2 "2015-04-05T14:54:57Z")
Sugar nips is also not a synonym for sugar tits. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-loaf/716874/3 "2015-04-05T14:55:39Z")
If you ever visit an historical house, they often have a replica sugarloaf among the kitchen displays–sometimes 2 or 3 feet tall.