Like Hot Water For Chocolate
Okay so another really good thing about this time of year is hot chocolate.
Or as they say “dans la belle France” (which is like French for “Dan’s the bell, France.”), “chocolat chaud“.
That translates literally to “chocolate chodes.” You know they say everything sounds sexier in French but sometimes I really don’t see it. Oh well. It’s like… Sailor V, you know?
Um so anyway everybody I know always likes my hot chocolate because I make it in all these different flavors and so they ask me how I get like caramel cinnamon hot chocolate or mint hot chocolate or raspberry amaretto hot chocolate or whatever but then they never want to believe me.
It’s not a big secret or anything. I just use like the regular fancy flavored coffee creamers. You can use the liquid kind or the powdered kind or whatever. They come in all kinds of flavors and if you use it with the cheap powdered hot chocolate that doesn’t even have the dehydrated milk in it it comes out creamier because like um duh that’s what creamer does. So you can get this really good gourmet style hot chocolate using just cheap powder and microwaved water.
But every time I tell somebody this they either go “Ew! Oh em gee, Ari! Coffee creamer in hot chocolate?” and act like the hot chocolate they loved a second ago is now gross and it’s like um that’s better than coffee creamer in coffee because coffee’s just nasty or they laugh nervously and they still drink it but then they never try making it for themselves because something in their mind just like recoils in horror at the thought of taking something that was intended to go in coffee and putting it into another hot beverage.
People are weird you know?
~Ariella Rasputin Wallflower
December 14th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
And off I go to the store to buy coffe creamer. Thanks for the tip!
December 14th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
You’re welcome. I am nothing if I am not educational.
Well that’s not true. I’m also on fire. I should probably stop typing and take care of that.
December 14th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Ari, How long have you been learning french? I have been studying for a couple months and I haven’t gotten to that lesson yet. A Do
December 14th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Okay, that coffee creamer in hot chocolate thing sounds really good. And I totally agree, anything’s got to be better than coffee creamer in actual coffee. Coffee is completely gross!
December 15th, 2007 at 6:50 am
…*jaw drops*
*eyes the cup of coffee with praline creamer in it*…
*goes to dump it out and make hot chocolate*
December 15th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Which just goes to prove: some things it’s just better not to know
I know “quelques mots de fran(c with a tail)ais” too!
moi aussi = I’m an Australian
coup de gr(a with a hat)ce = Lawnmower
December 15th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Like, I thought I was the only person who does that!!
December 17th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Hmmmm. Well. Can’t say I enjoy coffee. In fact I hate it. But I don’t really drink Hot Chocolate either. Well, maybe I’ll go dust off my mug this year. I could do with a few extra burns on the tip of my tongue anyway. Thanks for the push in the right direction!