Chocolate (color) - Chocolate in Human Culture

Chocolate in Human Culture

Animals

• Dogs with a dark brown coat are considered to be chocolate colored. The most common breed is the Labrador Retriever

Ethnography

• Chocolate City is a name that, since the 1970s, has been applied in African American slang to Washington DC, because of its overwhelmingly African American population. Nowadays, it is also used to refer to the black neighborhood of a particular city, or the collectivity of black neighborhoods in urban areas throughout Northern America. The term is also used for websites, blogs, etc. that are designed to appeal to African Americans. For example, Chocolate City magazine is an "urban lifestyle and nightlife magazine" that features models, events, and celebrity interviews and pictures from Chicago and Oakland, California.

Geography

• The Chocolate Hills are located in the province of Bohol in the Philippines.
• The Chocolate Mountains are located in Imperial County and Riverside County in the Colorado Desert in Southern California, a region of California, in the United States.
• There are also the Chocolate Mountains in Arizona, in the United States.

Music

• The Chocolate Watch Band was a popular psychedelic music group during the Summer of Love. (See also the Strawberry Alarm Clock)
• Chocolate City is a 1975 album by the funk band Parliament. It has a theme of love of Washington, D.C., where the group was particularly popular.
• Chocolate Starfish were an Australian rock music group based in Melbourne, Australia, releasing a number of hits in the early 1990s, before disbanding in 1998.
• Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water is the third album by the Nu metal band Limp Bizkit, released on October 15, 2000 through Interscope Records.
• Hot Chocolate was a British band that was popular during the 1970s and 1980s and famous for their song "You Sexy Thing".

Television

• On the 2011 TV show The Playboy Club, Naturi Naughton played Bunny Brenda, who is seeking to be the first African American Playboy Playmate (The show takes place in the early 1960s, and at that time no African American had yet been chosen to be a Playboy Playmate.). She referred to herself on the show as the chocolate bunny.