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{{quote|''Her lips are devil red''
''And her skin's the color of mocha''
''She will wear you out''
''Livin' la vida loca''
|Ricky Martin|''La Vida Loca''}}
Black characters in fiction are often described as having a skin color that looks like some kind of coffee beverage. This is especially likely if the character in question is of mixed race or if they are meant to be attractive. Sometimes those two concepts will be [[But Not Too Black|mixed together]].
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* In a [[The All-Concealing "I"|blink-and-you'll-miss-it viewpoint character description]] characteristic of [[Neil Gaiman]], Shadow of ''[[American Gods]]'' is described as having a cream-and-coffee complexion. Whether that means he's [[But Not Too Black|Not Too Black]] on his mother's side, [[But Not Too White|Not Too White]] on his father's side, or even the less-likely-in-context "dark cream in some places, light coffee in others" has been [[Internet Backdraft|hotly contested]] amongst fans.
* Slightly confusingly for people used to this trope, [[Enid Blyton]] generally used this kind of language to describe tanned ''white'' people.
* Appears in ''Homeward Bound'' by [[Harry Turtledove]]
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* ''[[Angel]]'' once described Jasmine as "mocha".
* In one episode of ''[[Will and Grace]],'' when Grace is about to dump a man played by Gregory Hines, Will wonders why, since not too long before, Grace was pouring milk in her cappuccino to show him what pretty colors their kids would be.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Referenced in [[Real Life]] by [[The Big Easy|New Orleans]] Mayor Ray Nagin in his [[wikipedia:
* 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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