Hot chocolate ..don’t understand why it’s a “thing”

[MrsGrindah]

Often read threads on here that include talking about hot chocolate as a treat. For example, “ snuggling up with a hot chocolate”, posh hot chocolate as a present, a pick me up when feeling ill etc. I just didn’t realise it was a popular treat. Never crosses my mind! Not judging it has just amused me that I am so out of touch!

I dont like it personally but it seems to be very much the ‘Insta’ drink of the moment and that’s where everyone gets the ‘snuggled up under a blanket’ nonsense from because they see all the heavily styled pics with biscuits and wooly socks and hats but bizzarly, bare legs sometimes.

It’s a bit like the cupcake/gin/Prosecco bandwaggon.

I’d rather have a cup of tea personally.

I suppose sharing a nice hot chocolate with your family on a cold evening creates that feeling of hygge in quite a lot of people.

@userxx don't swear. If you don't know what something is just ask nicely. For example I'm thick what is a snow day

LOL, Sahej.

My mum didn't believe in snow days either.
We were turfed out of bed, dressed in our uniforms and packed off to school, only to be ushered to the office along with the dozen other forlorn, frozen students whose mothers had a bee in their bonnets about, well, whatever the heck it was that caused mine to completely disregard the news and the weather forecast...

The patient nun who taught Kindergarten - she lived in the convent on-site - would phone dad, who would come trekking back from the city to bring us home at lunchtime. By that time all the snow would have been trampled on, there would be snowmen everywhere along with evidence of snowball fights, forts, and fun that we hadn't had, and all the other kids would be indoors, probably slurping hot chocolate and maybe even eating oven chips (something else my mum wouldn't allow us ). Dad used to fume about it.

I never understood it either. It's watered down chocolate with tonnes of sugar and makes your teeth furry . It is decades of marketing OP.

Saying that I bloody love hot milk and cacao powder which is a kind of home made version. Also, churros and chocolate, now that is good.