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?

No, she's comparing a slice of cake, available all year round but made special on a birthday, to a cup of hot chocolate, available all year round, but made special at Christmas. A perfect comparison imo.

No she’s not, read it again, she literally said

“After all, birthday cake, not special, you can put a candle in cake and blow it out any day, so presumably you don't bother doing this for your kids ...and obviously you don't even give them presents or anything on Christmas Day, because you can do that any day of the year”

it’s the most batshit thing I’ve ever read. 😂

I do. Love going off to the fancy ice-cream shop in the summer and getting loads of toppings. Fills me with joy. Maybe I'm summer I'll turn my hot chocolate station into an ice-cream one!! Can't wait

I'm just saying if you can have a bit chocolate any day and aren't allowed to make it special, then why make anything special? After all, you can give kids cake and presents any day of the year...

You must not know anyone then.

What a very strange response 🤔

I don’t believe all these posters who are saying ‘they don’t understand why people say hot chocolate is a treat’. No one lacks that much imagination. I’m sure most who say about the treat do have normal run or the mill hot chocolate during the year but go all out with cream etc at Christmas.

If it is a big highlight for their children how lovely that they have a relatively cheap and easy tradition. You can’t win can you because if someone posted that something more extravagant was their children’s highlight they’ll be accused of doing it for Instagram or something else.

I would say that one massive highlight for my kids at Christmas is watching Home Alone. We can do it any time of year but only watch it at Christmas. Is that ok or does that fall into the same category?

🤣🤣 Dear God, the snuggles on the sofa with the hot chocolate, I think I've hidden 100s of threads on here over the years.

We have it definitely more than Christmas with a fuck ton of squirty cream and marshmallows, I actually need a big spoon to have mine I pile it so high 🤣

We don't do the snuggles on sofa, I'm not even sure what that is, I picture a whole family in a line squashed up against each other with their heads and arms resting on each others bodies.

The next ones now will be the crusty bread with the truck load of cheese, I always imagine this famous crusty bread is stale and hard !

All this while reading a book..

What is the difference between birthday cake, cake is available year round let's make it a bit more special and have it as a treat to celebrate a birthday and hot chocolate, available all year round, let's make it a bit more special and have it as a treat to celebrate Christmas.

People who don't understand fancy hot chocolate at Christmas, do you also not understand birthday cake? Do you go round birthday parties sneering at people and asking them why they feel the need to eat cake on a birthday as it's not special and they could have it every day?

You don't have to like hot chocolate, but other people clearly do, and they enjoy savouring an extra special one at Christmas as a treat. You don't have to join in if you don't want to, but why the need to piss on people's chips and ridicule a small harmless thing that brings them joy? What harm is it doing you?

Another batshit response. A birthday is once a year.

It’s a hot drink, a mere hot drink. It isn’t ’Christmassy’. You’ve just been taken in by Disney Xmas movies who make ‘huddling’ around ‘a log filled roaring fire’ associated with some sort of aspirational treat.

A birthday is once a year, Christmas is once a year. Special cakes for birthdays, special hot chocolates for Christmas.

A cake is just flour, eggs, butter and sugar, a mere cake.

I don't actually like cake, but I understand that others do, and they see a 'special' bit of cake at a party as a treat. I'm happy they're enjoying it, why wouldn't I be?

I was this child and I still am this adult. During pregnancy it was one of the few foods/drinks I was able to keep down so it might not be as exciting this year because I had 4 a day for 7 months.

Stop trying to make the comparison between birthday cake and hot chocolate a thing.
It’s nonsense.

The point is hot chocolate isn’t special. Many, many people regularly bring their kids into coffee shops and their kid orders hot choc, mallows and cream.

Mulled wine is a Christmas drink. Not hot chocolate. .

Please explain how?

Seem exactly the same to me.

Special cake for a birthday.
Special hot chocolate for Christmas.

Both normal, everyday, readily available inexpensive things, that people choose to jazz up a bit and make a special version of in celebration of a special occasion.

Pray do explain the difference?

Cake isn't special. I actually don't like it and don't eat it.

I do actually think my once a year hot chocolate made with real dark chocolate, full fat milk and cream with a big glug of Cointreau is special. It's my annual Christmas eve treat.

Sorry but that poster is talking sense, it’s a great comparison.

But it is made special with all the flavourings and toppings.

It really isn’t 🤣

Perhaps if she’d used the comparison of Christmas cake, it might be better, but again there probably not as hot choc isn’t actually associated with Christmas. At all.

What special things? Cream, mallows and chocolate flakes? Most kids get this whenever they go to a coffee shop It isn’t special. It certainly isn’t Christmassy.

For me, made with real dark chocolate, cream and Cointreau. I don't know what special things you'd have on yours. The choice is endless...

Im not a fan of hot chocolate generally but I once had a delicious one made with dark chocolate, cherry liqueur and topped with whipped cream and dark chocolate shavings (not that hideous canned squirty cream stuff, that’s not a treat for anyone!)

It is for me and for the many, many other people who enjoy special hot chocolates at Christmas.

You don't have to like hot chocolate or have hot chocolate. You may not have hot chocolate as one of your family traditions. That's OK! You do you!

But you're not King of the World. You don't get to dictate what Christmas traditions and pleasures other families are allowed to have. And sneering at other people's joyful Christmas traditions isn't a nice thing to do. There's no right or wrong way to do a family Christmas.

I will continue to have my Cointreau hot chocolate every Christmas Eve with DH after we've filled the stockings, and will continue to enjoy it for the lovely Christmassy thing that it is. (And then I'll have the extra shot of Cointreau that the kids left out for Santa, whilst DH has the mince pie and a nibble on Rudolf's carrot!)

I like cocoa! I find hot chocolate too sickly sweet.