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The sugar tongs are small serving utensils used at the table to transfer sugar pieces from the to the . The tongs appeared at the end of the 17th century, and were very popular by 1800, with half of the British households owning them. The decline of the formal led to the disappearance of the sugar tongs, in the 21st century they are considered an oddity at the table in their original role, but had acquired a new meaning: the tongs now represent (somewhere along with ). Also, these tongs still can be used to serve small candy, , slices of cucumber, .


Terminology
Terminology is inconsistent. follows the evolution of the utensil through:
  • sugar nippers. While these tools shared the name with sturdy (and were also scissor-like), they were very different in nature: the latter were used to cut pieces off the in the kitchen, while the former were used at the table, were decorative and frequently made of silver; David Shlosberg asserts that this term was not contemporaneously applied to this utensil and the term " tea tongs" was actually used instead in the 18th century.
  • sugar bows with highly decorative handles appear in 1750s (Shlosberg says the displacement started in the early 1770s) for a short time;
  • sugar tongs with more plain designs appeared in the 18th century and gradually evolved into "bold, bad design" of the 19th century. By the early 20th century, the "fashion ... has dismissed the sugar-tongs from society".


Construction
The early tongs were scissor-like, occasionally in fancy shapes like storks with long beaks or puppets grabbing the sugar with their hands. The majority at the time were "sugar bows" with two elaborately decorated hands with that were joined by a flexible arc hammered into a spring, so that the hands opened when no pressure was applied to the arms. The latter part of the reign of George II and early reign of George III exhibited a very large variety of patterns pierced and onto the tongs. In the late piercing popularity had declined, and the thongs were made to match the contemporary spoon designs (for example, with the ).
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