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Is... the name a Portlandia reference?
by brundolf 3y ago
Is... the name a Portlandia reference?
- Klonoar 3y agoAuthor here. Never seen Portlandia, so no. Just a Cocoa pun!
- bitwize 3y agoIt could be a Portland reference. The city had a gourmet chocolate shop called Cacao that served "drinking chocolate" from 2005 until 2020. I know because I went in there after getting lost and drenched in a Portland February, and the staff there were kind enough to bring me towels and let me wait out the downpour while I sipped chocolate. But more than likely it's just a reference to Apple's Cocoa api.
- sk0g 3y agoAm I missing something, is the name/reference just "cacao"? Many languages spell cocoa that way, so I would take the name as cocoa-but-exotic or cocoa-but-foreign.
- tobinfricke 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacao
- tempodox 3y agoI take the name as a pun on the Cocoa API.
- brundolf 3y agoRight, I think it's both