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For some values of "plausible"? I'm pretty sure pre-Colombian mayans and aztecs didn't consume animal milk, as they hadn't domesticated cows, sheeps or goats.

• taejo 9y ago
  This is presumably a folk etymology of the French or English word "chocolate", not of the Aztec word "xocolatl"
  • schoen 9y ago
    Right, I think I had thought we got it from French and that they had formed it as cocoa/cacao + lait.
    • nandemo 9y ago
      Makes sense (but yeah, plausible depending on what you know).
      • schoen 9y ago
        I was pretty young when I interpreted it that way, and I don't think I knew anything about the Mesoamerican origins of chocolate when I thought that, or about the Columbian Exchange. I think I figured that basically the same food species were available everywhere, and there were just different cultural ways of preparing and combining them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_Exchange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_Exchange