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Pokémon (from “Pocket Monsters”) is a mid-1990s video game (and wider franchise). One of the main goals of the game appears to be to collect as many different species of Pokémon as possible. Indeed, its memorable slogan is “gotta catch ’em all!”
Following the Pokémon slogan, a poké-catch is an informal name for a programming construct wherein the developer chooses to just catch all runtime exceptions at a given point, even though the better practice is to catch and handle specific exceptions one knows the cause for, rather than casting too wide a net, and risking ignoring conditions that would best be handled elsewhere.
A poke bowl is a dish, which I noticed existing perhaps in the mid-2000s, made of many ingredients, usually including raw fish and pickled vegetables, over rice.
I had always assumed that the name “poke bowl” came from Pokémon; i.e., it is a bowl where every imaginable ingredient was collected. My folk etymology was apparently wrong:
“Poke”1 is Hawaiian for cutting crosswise into pieces, referring to the raw fish normally found in such bowls.
In my defence, at least one restaurant2 of “Asian Cuisine” chose part of the Pokémon logo as theirs, giving credence to the Pokémon theory.
“To slice, cut crosswise into pieces, as fish or wood; to press out, as the core of a boil (Kam. 64:105) or the meat of an ʻopihi shell; section, slice, piece. Poke heʻe, a severed portion of octopus; fig., a chubby person. Poke ʻina, the tongue-like meat found in the ʻina, sea urchin; to remove this meat.” (Hawaiian Dictionary)↩︎
It was Sushi Poké, and their menu does include poke bowls.↩︎
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David Haguenauer
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