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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.stack.imgur.com/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.


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What does Yoshimura mean by "sugar" in chapter 92?


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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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".

* * *

... 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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