Mario Mystery: Is Chocolate Island actually made of chocolate?

[Plastiware]

This is for anyone who's played Super Mario World to consider.  I've always assumed that Chocolate Island, the location of the game's sixth world, is supposed to be made of chocolate.  This is especially because a dialogue you get after completing the previous castle describes it as "dangerous (but tasty)".



It only recently occurred to me that it may not be literally chocolate.  Most of the other game's worlds are named after foods, despite not actually appearing to be made of said foods, so why should Chocolate Island be so special?  In addition, a few levels on Chocolate Island aren't really colored anything like chocolate.



And of course, we can't forget that Chocolate Island later appeared in Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart 64 as Choco Island and Choco Mountain, respectively, neither of which are explicitly said to be made of chocolate.  Not that that rules out the possibility that they are made of chocolate.



What do you think?  Is Chocolate Island actually made of chocolate, or is it just named after its chocolate brown color?

But most importantly, why the hell did I create this thread?

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[Qwepir]

named after the color

[Port]

named after the color

but that's brown town seepage color, not chocolate color

[Visage]

chocolate melts so nope would be impossible to be actual chocolate. Saying "but tasty" could just be a pun.

[Isaac Fox]

It could be made of chocolate, but my theory is that Nintendo were trying to make it look like so without taking up too much of the cartridge memory by making too many separate sets of sprites just for world 6.

[Yosher]

Mario Kart 64's Choco Mountain is the only thing named "chocolate" in the entire series that actually looks a little bit like chocolate.

[BlockoCrafter]

Mario Kart 64's Choco Mountain is the only thing named "chocolate" in the entire series that actually looks a little bit like chocolate.

I always thought the boulders were gigantic cocoa puffs.

[Isaac Fox]

Nesquiksand!

[Port]

Nesquiksand!

my sides

[blockguy123]

but that's brown town seepage color, not chocolate color

brown town seepage island

[Tokerovin]

Wow, what a chocolate blast from the past.

[Port]

brown town seepage island

now with TECHNICOLOR

[Filipe]

I always thought the boulders were gigantic cocoa puffs.

haha same here, I also always wanted to eat a piece from Choco Mountain for some reason

[*FacePalm*]

that's like asking if Starlight Carnival is actually a carnival.

for example, this is starlight carnival:

while there certainly is lots of starlight, you're probably wondering where the actual 'carnival' part is. sure it's bright and colorful and has fireworks and such like a carnival, but there's no rollercoasters, ferris wheels, ect. so why is it called 'starlight carnival' if it's not actually a carnival?

hey, what maritime entertainment company has been messing up recently?
carnival cruise ships.

that's not to confirm that these spaceships are the Carnival Cruise Ships of the future but it was probably some sort of homage. i mean if you think about it, they are probably carnival cruise ships. (it struck me when i saw a carnival cruise ship ad and the hull of the ship looked kinda like the ships in starlight carnival.)

i mean come on, now that i've said so does it seem like the ships in that level actually seem like something Carnival would build in the future?


but how does this relate to Chocolate Island?
put simply

named after the color

if it was actually an island made of chocolate, then there'd be more chocolate-related things; probably a milk ocean/lake/ect, and the tiles would probably look like chocolate squares. also giant chocolate bunnies and stuff like that.
however because there's none of that it's probably just a name due to the color. along with the fact that saying it was 'tasty' was also just poking fun at the name, also if it wasn't mentioned elsewhere, then i don't think it's actually chocolate.

so yeah

I always thought the boulders were gigantic cocoa puffs.

haha same here, I also always wanted to eat a piece from Choco Mountain for some reason

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