In colonial times, a sugarloaf was refined sugar molded into a cone. The term sugarloaf later extended to a mountain that resembled one. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Sugarloaf”
Another word from that collection of landscape terms called home ground that jumped out at me is the word sugarloaf.
Oh, sugarloaf. We all surely heard of Sugarloaf Mountain.
Well, there are lots of Sugarloaf Mountains, as a matter of fact.
Yeah, my dad was born at the foot of Sugarloaf Mountain in North Carolina, but there are sugarloafs around the country.
And the term sugarloaf goes back to colonial times when people, when they could obtain sugar, obtained it in these little mounds that people also thought the mountains looked like.
They’re kind of tapered at the top.
Is this like the way that you can find sugar in Mexican markets sometimes?
Oh, I guess so.
Yeah, I hadn’t thought about that.
Interesting.
Yeah.
We switched to cubes, but…
Okay.
Yeah.
Interesting.
