Then there were us kids growing up in Ivory Coast with people named, to our ears, Cocoa and Coffee, so it was no surprise to hear a kid being called Haricot Vert (string bean)... who turned out to be Eric d'Auvergne.

And in the same time frame the guy I thought for years was named Homard (lobster) was actually named Omar. This realization hit at about the same time as the "aussi" from the Woody Guthrie song.