<p>As stated on <a href="http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_92" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wikia</a>, the original joke is about &quot;serving coffee for ghouls&quot; and &quot;man on a (baseball) base&quot;. The original script goes like this:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>「&quot;喰種&quot;へ淹れるコーヒー」とかけて「鈍足な出塁者」ととく――「トウルイは控えるように」。</p>
<p><sup><a href="http://yamato676.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-230.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Source (Japanese)</a> </sup></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Rough translation:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>&quot;Serving coffee for ghouls&quot; and &quot;slow-footed man on a (baseball) base&quot;... is &quot;to refrain from <em>tourui</em>&quot;.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Here, <em>tourui</em> is either <a href="http://jisho.org/word/%E7%B3%96%E9%A1%9E" rel="nofollow noreferrer">糖類</a> (saccharides; sweeteners) or <a href="http://jisho.org/word/%E7%9B%97%E5%A1%81" rel="nofollow noreferrer">盗塁</a> (base stealing; steal; stolen base), which basically means:</p>
<ul>
<li>Not consuming sugar on coffee for ghouls</li>
<li>Resist stealing a base for slow-footed man</li>
</ul>
<p>Since this Japanese wordplay is almost impossible to be translated properly (and the joke itself is quite technical), I believe the translator changed it so that joke can be understood easier while trying to preserve the nuance for &quot;sweetener/sugar&quot; and &quot;serving coffee for ghouls&quot;.</p>
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<p>... as for the meaning of &quot;sugar&quot; in the translated version, it probably means:</p>
<ul>
<li>Sugar, a prostitute that appears on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crimson_Petal_and_the_White" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>The Crimson Petal and the White</em></a> (or alternatively, a general/famous codename used by a prostitute)</li>
<li>Sugar baby (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_baby" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wikipedia</a>)</li>
<li>Brown sugar, or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin" rel="nofollow noreferrer">heroin</a></li>
</ul>

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Aki Tanaka
<p>I believe the sugar is a reference to cocaine. If you look at pictures of crack cocaine, it kind of looks like an off color sugar</p>

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<p>On chapter 92, there's a conversation between Yoshimura and Roma inside Anteiku that goes like this:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Yoshimura: What do you have to be careful about in both "the coffee you served to ghouls" and 'prostitutes on street corner'?<br>
  Roma: ??<br>
  Yoshimura: "Sugar"<br>
  Roma: ...... what? (<em>confused</em>)</p>
</blockquote>

<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/yOy61l.jpg" alt="the conversation inside Anteiku"></p>

<p>This joke went right over my head when I read this chapter. If someone could explain it to me that would be great.</p>

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I want to take a guess as to a prostitute named “Sugar” but I’m not entirely sure if that’s actually the joke
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@AnimNations Is there a character in Tokyo Ghoul named "Satou"? Since that's the Japanese word for "sugar", but can also be used as a name.
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What does Yoshimura mean by "sugar" in chapter 92?
# What does Yoshimura mean by "sugar" in chapter 92?
Posted by: username_0 on 2017-11-30
On chapter 92, there's a conversation between Yoshimura and Roma inside Anteiku that goes like this:

> Yoshimura: What do you have to be careful about in both "the coffee you served to ghouls" and 'prostitutes on street corner'?  
> Roma: ??  
> Yoshimura: "Sugar"  
> Roma: ...... what? (*confused*)

![the conversation inside Anteiku](https://i.sstatic.net/yOy61l.jpg)

This joke went right over my head when I read this chapter. If someone could explain it to me that would be great.
**Tags:** japanese-language tokyo-ghoul
> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: I want to take a guess as to a prostitute named “Sugar” but I’m not entirely sure if that’s actually the joke  
> **username_1**: @AnimNations Is there a character in Tokyo Ghoul named "Satou"? Since that's the Japanese word for "sugar", but can also be used as a name.  
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## 2 answers
### Answer by username_2 on 2017-12-04. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
As stated on [Wikia](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_92), the original joke is about "serving coffee for ghouls" and "man on a (baseball) base". The original script goes like this:

> 「"喰種"へ淹れるコーヒー」とかけて「鈍足な出塁者」ととく――「トウルイは控えるように」。
>
> [Source (Japanese)](http://yamato676.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-230.html)

Rough translation:

> "Serving coffee for ghouls" and "slow-footed man on a (baseball) base"... is "to refrain from *tourui*".

Here, *tourui* is either [糖類](http://jisho.org/word/%E7%B3%96%E9%A1%9E) (saccharides; sweeteners) or [盗塁](http://jisho.org/word/%E7%9B%97%E5%A1%81) (base stealing; steal; stolen base), which basically means:

* Not consuming sugar on coffee for ghouls
* Resist stealing a base for slow-footed man

Since this Japanese wordplay is almost impossible to be translated properly (and the joke itself is quite technical), I believe the translator changed it so that joke can be understood easier while trying to preserve the nuance for "sweetener/sugar" and "serving coffee for ghouls".

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... as for the meaning of "sugar" in the translated version, it probably means:

* Sugar, a prostitute that appears on [*The Crimson Petal and the White*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crimson_Petal_and_the_White) (or alternatively, a general/famous codename used by a prostitute)
* Sugar baby ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_baby))
* Brown sugar, or [heroin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin)
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### Answer by username_3 on 2017-12-01. Score: 0
I believe the sugar is a reference to cocaine. If you look at pictures of crack cocaine, it kind of looks like an off color sugar
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