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 drink Hotel Chocolat hot chocolate all year round (any other kind is "brown sadness water" to me); but as it's expensive, I limit myself to two or three a week. I certainly don't think of it as a Christmas thing: I'm a Scrooge who thinks that Christmas is massively overdone.

I like it when the drink is referred to as "cocoa".

But I loathe the idea of marshmallows in hot chocolate, which seems to be a Christmas tradition, like the elves. Ugh!

I know, the thought of sugary goo in a drink makes me feel a bit 🤢