It 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.
Am 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.
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Is... the name a Portlandia reference?
I take the name as a pun on the Cocoa API.
Right, I think it's both
It 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.
Am 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacao
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Never seen Portlandia, so no. Just a Cocoa pun!