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?

This thread is creasing me up. It’s like a fight to the death to protect the utter excitement of having a hot chocolate with toppings. It’s so big it compares to birthday cake, and Xmas gifts, 😂😂😂

Cake is cake. Why is birthday cake special?

Birthday cakes date back to the 18th century when candles representing years were put on cakes to ward off evil spirits.

Despite some posters hopes, a hot chocolate drink is not comparable in any way.

It’s batshit. I’m guessing the same posters toast at weddings and celebrate wedding anniversaries and graduations with …,,,,, hot chocolate.

Hot chocolate isn’t special to me as I have multiples day… but some of you are a bit grumpy 😂

If it’s a holiday tradition or an indulgent treat they look forward to, then that’s fine.

Let people enjoy things!

We had a hot chocolate and squirty cream every Sunday night after our bath when we were little in our family. And then watched Heartbeat. The glory days.

We always called it cocoa at home, when I was little. Suddenly in her 80s, my mother started asking for a hot chocolate

But if a family see it as a Christmas tradition and they enjoy it, and it makes them happy- what’s the problem? Why is that a bad thing? Seems pretty inoffensive to me.

I genuinely don’t get it, but then I ve not got excited about birthday cake since I was a kid either . It’s clearly a big five mins for people, that sitting drinking a hot chocolate with loads of sugary fatty crap added, whilst hugging their husbands or kids, I assume that’s what snuggling means. And fair enough.

I love my husband but if I said to him shall we make hot chocolate, load it up with crap and then sit and snuggle on the sofa whilst we drink it , he’d probably think I’d lost my mind, but would say “eh sure, but I will give the hot chocolate a miss”.😂

I think for me though is the hysteria on the thread that’s creasing me up. I still can’t get past the frothing poster accusing someone of not buying their kids Xmas presents or a birthday cake, as someone said they didn’t get the love for hot chocolate. Utter insanity.

Some people like sneering at others, and somehow manage make themselves feel good by putting other people down. That's all. It says a lot about them.

I'm completely bemused as to why DH and I having a family Christmas tradition of a Cointreau laced dark hot chocolate after filling the kids stockings on Christmas Eve is so offensive to some strangers on the internet. We're hardly luring them round, keeping them locked in the attic and force feeding them creamy, rich, alcohol laced hot chocolate!

@OopOopI've got some kirsch in the drinks cabinet, I'm now pondering a Black Forest hot choc. Mind you, I'm diabetic, so only get to drink one hot chocolate a year, and I do love my Cointreau.

Are you not sneering? What about the poster who accused someone of not buying their kids Xmas gifts as they don’t understand the excitement of hot chocolate. Your post I just quoted is probably the sneeriest on here.

The fat and calories definitely make it a treat drink.

No, I'm not sneering, my post isn't sneery. It's truthful about how some people are behaving on this thread. And I'm pushing back at the people sneering at me and telling me that my families Christmas traditions aren't OK, because they don't share those same traditions.

You do you, but let others do what they want to do without sneering at them.

Don’t be ridiculous, unless people are having them for breakfast, lunch, and tea they’ll be absolutely fine having 1 fancy hot chocolate.

I have sugar filled regular hot chocolate whenever I like, it's so tasty on a cold day.
But I like to fancy up my Christmas hot chocolate with cream and Baileys!

you were sneering, at least own it.

im literally agog at how abusive some posters are being simply as others don’t see anything special in a mug of hot chocolate with some marshmallows on top.

Where has anyone been abusive? I personally can’t see where the poster you’ve quoted was sneering.

I’m, on the other hand, surprised that people seem bothered about a simple and inoffensive thing they like to do. And how many people ‘don’t understand it’.

There was no sneering in that post.
And I have no vested interest, as I don’t even like hot chocolate. But there was no sneering.

My 3 year old calls it 'chocolate tea' and he'll have a cup with mallows and sprinkles on xmas eve. It's a treat, it isn't something he has all of the time so it will feel special to him.

Which is the whole point.

It was a joke dear.

The thing I wonder is why nobody ever seems to drink cocoa any more, it’s always hot chocolate.

We have cocoa every Sunday evening, and on Christmas Eve the kids can have it with squirty cream and marshmallows…it’s a pretty cheap and harmless ‘special’ thing for them.

I love your description of the shit, low calorie hot chocolate.

Like a little warm puddle in a cup.

Miserable and not worth the effort of boiling the kettle and making a mug dirty for.

Not sneering, not abusive. Just really bemused by others being so sneery and nasty about my family's longstanding Christmas tradition of having a special hot chocolate on Christmas Eve. I cannot fathom how it affects them. I'm in no way trying to force others to have hot chocolate if they don't wish to.

It's just a Christmas tradition that my family enjoy and will continue to do so.

And that’s fine, it’s also fine for people not to see the big deal in it. But declaring that as people don’t see how it’s such a big deal means they enjoy putting others down is indeed sneery and abusive.

and that’s the thing. Both sides have been guilty of this.

you have a tradition that’s really important to you it seems, that involves a mug of hot chocolate. Others struggle to see how a mug of hot chocolate is a an event or exciting and certainly not to the extent where one comes over angry and abusive if someone doesn’t see how a mug of hot chocolate is so critical.

both sides need to agree to disagree and accept each others view point. No one is saying don’t have a mug of hot chocolate with marshmallows, crack on.

I mean it’s a bloody mug of hot chocolate people are arguing over.