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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Referenced in [[Real Life]] by [[The Big Easy|New Orleans]] Mayor Ray Nagin in his [[wikipedia:Ray nagin#.22Chocolate City.22|"Chocolate City"]] speeches and comments. He was simply referencing an old [[George Clinton|Parliament-Funkadelic]] song about D.C., but the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of the comment became an [[Epic Fail]] that nearly cost him his re-election. His back-pedaling clarification that meant "chocolate ''with milk''" was unintentionally hilarious, however.
* In [[Stephen Colbert]]'s 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner, he describes [[Washington DC|Washington, D.C.]], as "the chocolate city with a marshmallow center." ("And a graham-cracker crust of corruption... it's a Mallomar, basically.") Two years later, the city's marshmallow center
* While not specifically referencing coffee, Wanda Sykes did use this in a comedy routine. She mentioned how the "random screenings" at airports weren't really random, mentioning that they had a Benjamin Moore paint chart at the gate, and if you were darker than "khaki," you were getting screened.
* This is very common in [[Brazil (useful notes)|Brazilian]] culture, where the very large mixed-race population means that a kind of shorthand is more or less necessary.
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