the.com/sugar bowl
The one dish at the table nobody fights over sharing a spoon with.
means A small lidded bowl made for holding and serving sugar at the table.
from A plain compound of 'sugar' and 'bowl' — no hidden story here. 'Sugar' itself traveled a long road into English, passing through French and Latin back to Arabic 'sukkar' and ultimately Sanskrit 'sharkara,' meaning grit or gravel, which is a fittingly literal nod to sugar's crystalline form. The dedicated 'sugar bowl' as a named household object follows once sugar became cheap and common enough on European tables to need its own vessel, rather than being doled out from a loaf or cone.
- lid purpose
- keeps ants and moisture out, mostly
- etymology trap
- had nothing to do with actual sugar rationing laws
- bowl football
- also a real college bowl game in New Orleans
- cube era
- tongs existed because fingers and sugar don't mix