Hot Chocolate fetish

[TrickyD]

What’s with hot chocolate being some sort of exotic drink only consumed at Christmas, or on Christmas Eve?
It is basically cocoa sugar and milk and easily available any day of the year. Why make such a song and dance about it? It is not exactly the elixir of the gods.
If you are that keen on it why do you have to snuggle on the sofa to drink it? Why not just stand around glugging it in the kitchen whenever you fancy some?

That is madness. I hate hot chocolate and would be rooting about for the earl grey tea bags!

£1900!!! That’s mad.

Well it is a treat for my kids… a decent hot chocolate is usually full of sugar and fat so it’s not something they have on a regular basis. Especially as they like it with cream and marshmallows.
I don’t like hot chocolate but will have a mulled wine at Christmas. I could technically drink that at any time too, but yeah I see it as a ‘Christmas treat’. I don’t think I’ve got a fetish for it though.

It depends on what is covered by whipped cream and sprinkles 😉

I know what you are saying op. I have cocoa in my cupboard and make it when I fancy rarely Christmas time as that’s gluwein season

I didn't know hot chocolate was so controversial 😅

During covid lockdown I remember seeing a post somewhere of ‘slow cooker hot chocolate’ 😂

I haven’t heard the term hundreds and thousands in years, it reminds me of my aunt, very nostalgic.

Sprinkles is an objectively cuter word though.

My Starbucks order is soya milk hot chocolate, no cream. It's so well known in my nearest stores as I am such a regular customer that they start making it when I walk in and before I've ordered. I have it at least 3 times a week, as well as 1 or 2 oat milk hot chocolates from my work canteen and if I fancy it, a Velvetiser hot chocolate at home. Definitely not just for Christmas.

I still call them hundreds and thousands! A very apt name, especially when little Gdcs have spilt them all over the floor while trying to put them on their iced fairy cakes - and no, they’re not cup cakes!

(Fairy cakes are smaller and not typically topped with a mountain of sickly lurid icing.)

Everyone in my family calls them hundreds and thousands!

Yeah it's weird.
It's just a hot drink like tea or coffee to me.
So normal and ordinary.

There’s lots of shit we do at Christmas that we don’t do at other times of year. That’s kind of the point OP.

As in eat Turkey !

Made from scratch it’s absolutely a treat.
If it’s the add water and stir shite, it’s not worth the effort to make it or drink it, any time of the year.

MN made me feel as though my children are sadly lacking as neither of them like hot chocolate. I’ve always liked it, both the taste and the associations from
my childhood as it was something my mum would put on as soon as we got in from playing in the snow (about three times in my life!), going sailing in miserable weather (quite common) or going for a walk in the pouring rain (frequent). If the DC want a warming drink, they have hot squash.

I have a hot chocolate multiple times a week! I love them. Not with water though, proper with milk.

I do love a festive one too. The caramel nut one at Costa is lovely.

What a strange post! You can also eat a turkey dinner whenever you fancy but 🤷‍♀️

We currently have a hot chocolate station! And we love to get cosy on the sofa and drink it. In our matching Christmas pajamas. It's just a bit of fun. It's not something I go around talking about though. It's just a bit of fun for me and my girls. Just makes a standard dull evening a bit more special. We do have it at other times in the year too, mostly during freezing cold walks up mountains or sailing. It's not an everyday treat due to it being a pain to make well and calorific.

I don’t like any hot drinks but my dc do; we buy the hotel chocolate packets but don’t use a velvetiser, just a pan on the hob. The youngest has about one a week from October until probably March, it’s not a Christmas specific thing. Just a cold weather drink. The older 2 maybe have one a month.

The connotations of snuggling under a blanket drinking a hot choc is so twee. I don’t want anyone sitting next to me on the sofa thanks, personal space at all times please 😂

It is an outdoor drink in our family. Brewed over a twig stove after a few miles of hill walking, it is a real treat then.

Obviously yes to the fat and sugar but a hotel chocolat 70% is only 170 calories including the milk so not high calorie at all. Good quality dark hot chocolate is often fine.

Only 170 calories! Is that not a lot of calories for a hot drink?

@Iknowdino what do you mean by a "hot chocolate station" though?
What exactly is it?
My hot chocolate lives in the food cupboard, milk/squirty cream is in the fridge, kettle in the kitchen....
What's on the "station"?

I made it out of cardboard! It looks like a little Christmas market hut and there is a sign saying help your s-elf. The hot chocolate is in a mason jar and the bits to add are in little glass tubs. The cream does have to stay in the fridge. The elves sometimes sit with it. The kids say I went overboard. Probably did but gotta have some small joys!

Same way people don't eat a whole cake every day... no rule says you CAN'T and that its JUST for birthdays/special occasions, but it would be wildly unhealthy too chow down cakes on the regular.

If I was going to have a high calorie drink then for most the year I wouldn't pick a hot one as burning my mouth and having to wait isn't my idea of a great drink but on Xmas eve as a one off tradition with the kids its nice.

fetish
noun
noun: fetish; plural noun: fetishes
1.
a form of sexual desire in which gratification is strongly linked to a particular object or activity or a part of the body other than the sexual organs.

Why are you trying to sexualise it?

does your household eat say chocolate coins and candy canes all year round too as to not equate them to 'sex' in your household?

Just a weird thought process to try and make a simple kid friendly 'tradition' sexual.