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?

I don’t like it, but I have just about no sweet tooth at all, and don’t like most sugary things. I can just about drink a couple of sips, and that’s enough hot chocolate for me!

I’m also bemused by this, any winter thread and someone is posting about drinking hot chocolate, I genuinely don’t see this obsession in real life. No one really gives a shit about hot chocolate, and I’ve never met anyone who finds it the highlight of their evenings.

I guess everyone is different, as it does seem drinking hot chocolate is a really big deal for some people.

170 calories for a drink is a lot especially if your doing it regularly.

A 2 liter bottle of Pepsi max is 12 calories for comparison.

I think people are just trying to be happy in this miserable boring world. if they want to make hot chocolate into a special treat then why not.

It’s really creepy you cut off point 2 and focused on sex there.

creepy and disturbing.

fetish
/ˈfɛtɪʃ/

noun

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. "a man with a fetish for surgical masks

an inanimate object worshipped for its supposed magical powers or because it is considered to be inhabited by a spirit.

This isn't ancient Mayan fire water we are talking about. No one is talking about religious worship of spirits.

“Why not stand around glugging it in the kitchen”?

I do, OP. I drink it several times a day 🫢😔

Yanbu. It’s not a Christmas drink (unless it’s fancy and made with cream inside)… it’s just chocolate flavoured milk!

Mind you, I do add a tower of cream on mine.

But do you bring the boiling water/milk through to where the "station" is?
Or fill a cup with the powder and then go to the kitchen?
(Or is it in the kitchen?)

It's in the kitchen, on the worktop next to the hob. The Christmas mugs are set out there too. So just warm up the milk and away you go. I should add I have never, out loud, referred to it as a station 🤣

I think I know what you’re saying OP. Not the drink itself necessarily, but the idea that it is an activity of some kind. I’ve never understood it either.

Oh that makes sense 🙂

There must be people that only drink hot chocolate at Christmas ?

Surely it’s only the same as ‘sit down in the evening with a nice glass of wine’ type thing?

They're paying someone £19 per hot chocolate 😱😂😂😂😂

See this is the kind of thing other people do and it looks nice.

If I did it, it would just look like I left the mugs and paraphernalia out on the side instead of putting it away 😂

Hot chocolate stations are a tradition that's come about because of social media.

See also matching pyjamas etc

its a sugary beverage that I rarely waste calories on. At holidays a big mug of it topped w/whipped cream or spiked w/baileys is a lovely treat I wouldn't otherwise have. Thus it becomes a holiday food for me. Not exotic but definitely not an everyday drink.

The way I make it is probably several hundred calories! 😳I can't afford to have hot chocolate regularly, can you let me have it as a special christmas treat please lol.

I have proper hot chocolate at home all year round. I'm not posh.

DD used to drink it most nights, to help get calories into her (underweight). With marshmallows and whipped cream from a can wasn’t unusual.

I also drink it a lot at bedtime to help me sleep. I get Butler’s chocolate version - a lump of real chocolate (milk or white) that melts into the milk. Or the chocolate flakes that Ó Connaill’s used to do (but they changed their recipe a few years ago) to melt into boiling milk. Some nights, there is a glug of Baileys in it too.

in fact, when I was home a few weeks ago and had spare capacity in my case coming back to my work location (4 year posting), I bought 4 boxes of Butlers so have 40 nights to use. You can’t get that type here at all.

🤣🤣 that's probably exactly what mine looks like, albeit in a terribly painted hut!

Sorry - is there something wrong with having hot chocolate at Christmas? At making a nice warm cup of hot sweet tasty goodness when it’s cold outside and you want to make an event of snuggling on the sofa?

Many people have hot chocolates yearly, otherwise I would assume they wouldn’t be so readily available in every supermarket year round. So I think you’re being a bit ridiculous. Let people enjoy their treats regardless of why day it is.

Why do we do anything?
Why do we make any traditions? Make an effort with anything? Make anything special?
Because it’s fun. Life is tedious and these things make it better.

Why do we do anything?
Why do we make any traditions? Make an effort with anything? Make anything special?
Because it’s fun. Life is tedious and these things make it better.

A hot chocolate on a bloody cold day or night, when it's sleeting or tipping it down, snuggled up in bed with a cold or just a standard duvet day, is indescribably amazing.

Pumpkin spice latte is probably a fetish. It's most definitely part of the autumn/fall uniform.