‘I share my name with a popular snack – people always say I’d taste great with cheese’

When you share a name with something well-known, you have to expect people might make comparisons from time to time. But one man says those around him always make the same joke when he reveals his name, as he shares it with a snack

How would you like it if everyone always made jokes about your name? Well, one man who shares his name with a popular snack knows exactly what it’s like when people find your moniker amusing. He’s now opened up about what it is like to live with his name, which gets a reaction wherever he goes.

Thankfully, it sounds like he takes the jokes in his stride, even though people constantly tell him he would “taste great with cheese”. Named Nacho, the easy-going man revealed the way people often respond when they learn his name, in a post to Reddit.

Writing on the forum namenerds, he explained his name is Ignacio but he goes by the nickname Nacho. Nacho added that he is so fond of his name, he never uses its official version unless he has to.

“Actually my ID card says ‘Ignacio’ because that’s the formal form of it, and by the time I was born it wasn’t allowed to register the informal version ‘Nacho’. But no one ever has called me Ignacio,” he said.

For many people, Nacho brings to mind the dish of the same name, and for good reason. As the New York Times reports, the name derives from the man credited for creating the dish, one Ignacio Anaya, in Coahuila, Mexico . As such, jokesters always make the same comment to Nacho.

“All my life I’ve had to deal with people saying I’d taste great with cheese haha,” he wrote. “I like it tho,” Nacho continued. “I was just wondering what does it bring to mind to english speaking people.”

“How do you feel about it?” he wrote, as he concluded his post. Well, people were quick to share their love of his name, even if it came as a surprise to some.

“I had no idea Nacho came from Ignacio! I quite like it,” read one comment. “Makes me think of food but I love nachos so it’s a positive association,” said another.

Meanwhile, someone else wrote: “Nacho is far from the most surprising name I’ve come across. Obviously it does bring to mind the food item, but otherwise I think it’s a really fun name!” But other commenters did not find the name surprising at all.

One person wrote: “Maybe it’s because I’ve lived in places with a pretty high Latino population my whole life, but im kind of shocked at all the commenters who just learned Nacho is a nickname for Ignacio!”

And a second replied: “I’ve known enough Ignacios that I just assume that’s the full name when I meet someone who goes by Nacho.” Regardless, the one thing everyone agreed upon was that they like the name.

“One of my favorite names! I love Ignacio!” claimed one commenter. And a different responder wrote: “Coolest name AND coolest nickname!! Love it!”