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Lazy Susans are rotating trays, usually circular, placed on top of a table
Table (furniture)

A table is a item of furniture comprising a surface supported by a base or legs. It may be used to hold articles such as food at a convenient or comfortable height when sitting, and is therefore often used in conjunction with chairs....
 to aid in moving food on a large table or counter tops.

This term may also refer to corner cabinets on which the shelves are mounted on a vertical axle such that items may be retrieved by pushing on the shelves to turn them. This type is usually found in kitchens. Closed, this type of lazy Susan appears to be two normal cabinets at right angles to each other.






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Lazy Susans are rotating trays, usually circular, placed on top of a table
Table (furniture)

A table is a item of furniture comprising a surface supported by a base or legs. It may be used to hold articles such as food at a convenient or comfortable height when sitting, and is therefore often used in conjunction with chairs....
 to aid in moving food on a large table or counter tops.

This term may also refer to corner cabinets on which the shelves are mounted on a vertical axle such that items may be retrieved by pushing on the shelves to turn them. This type is usually found in kitchens. Closed, this type of lazy Susan appears to be two normal cabinets at right angles to each other. When pushed on, the cabinet "doors" reveal the shelves, which are circular except for the ninety degree cutout where the doors are mounted.

The term "Lazy Susan" made its first written appearance in a Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is an American magazine of culture, fashion, and politics published by Cond? Nast Publications....
 advertisement for a "Revolving Server or Lazy Susan" in 1917. Prior to that time they were called dumbwaiters, a term also applied to a type of small elevator
Dumbwaiter (elevator)

Dumbwaiters are small freight elevators not intended to carry people or live animals, which, when located in modern structures, including both commercial and private buildings, often connect two floors; when located in restaurants or in private homes, often one end of the dumbwaiter terminates in a kitchen....
 for transporting food.

According to , the Susan part of Lazy Susan is suggested to come from servants, who were often named Susan back in the 1700's. In some regions of North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
, a Lazy Susan is called a Crazy Adams, a reference to former U.S. president
President

President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, company, trade unions, university, and country. Etymology, a "president" is one who Wiktionary:Preside, who sits in leadership ....
 John Adams
John Adams

John Adams was an Politics of the United States and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , after being the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States for two terms....
 .

See also

  • Susan