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Chocolate

[Image of a Triangle-person enjoying their chocolate, with a noise: "Le crunch, le crunch"] CHOCOLATE faketymology fr. cocoa au latte [Image of a Triangle-person picking up cocoa pods from a small-ish tree, with Eiffel Tower in the background] + [Image of a Triangle-person milking a Triangle-cow. The cow says "Le moo?". There is two containers for milk nearby, one of them with a veritically stripped flag.]

[Image of a Triangle-person enjoying their chocolate, with a noise: “Le crunch, le crunch”]

CHOCOLATE faketymology fr. cocoa au latte

[Image of a Triangle-person picking up cocoa pods from a small-ish tree, with Eiffel Tower in the background] + [Image of a Triangle-person milking a Triangle-cow. The cow says “Le moo?”. There is two containers for milk nearby, one of them with a veritically stripped flag.]

I’ve got this notion of “cocoa-au-latte” in my head and can’t get rid of it, so I figure I’ll just infect everybody else as well.

This etymology is very wrong. According to Wikipedia, people are pretty sure the word “chocolate” came to us from the Aztecs, and it applies to chocolate regardless of the milk contents. To make things even wronger, cocoa is not a French word, neither is latte, and I don’t think cocoa trees would grow very well in France.

But it sounds kinda right, so there you go.

#nonsense