BREAKING:
Carey: ABC on hot chocolate: “One way to improve the taste of the lower-rated chocolate drinks is to add milk instead of water.”
Meg: You are fucking with me.
Meg: They did not write that.
Carey: Ric Romero, Consumer Specialist at his best.
Meg: Oh my god. He’s unbelievable.
Meg: This conversation is a blog post. Go write it.
Carey: That never works well for me. “But it’s true,” they will say.
Meg: I’m going to post it.
Carey: Don’t forget to use the “BREAKING” tag
Meg: I will.
Meg: this is HOT
Meg: pun INTENDED
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journalism at its best.
Anyone who drinks watery hot chocolate is an idiot who probably shouldn’t be trusted with buying groceries in the first place.
(Did I blame the victim sufficiently?)
@cabinaero: Alton Brown rules.
Wow, this story has completely turned my life around now. All my life–water on the cereal, water in the hot cocoa, dipping my cookies in water. And what has it ever gotten me? I’ll tell you what it’s gotten me: NOTHING! NOT A DAMN THING!!!
Mr. Romero, sir, *sniff* thank you. I owe you my life…
Not that anyone will read down this far, but…
The best hot chocolate powder for home use is by Big Train. Doesn’t need milk, honest. But the most amazing thing you could ever drink is the hot chocolate they make at Burdick’s Chocolates in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. Unreal.
Hossofcourse preference: Mexican hot cocoa. Starts with a block of unsweetend chocolate, is enhanced with cinnamon, sugar, rich vanilla, some milk or half and half, salt, and whatever moves you.
For me it’s a special drink — not everyday — with nice toast and cheese or lox or whatever.
probably not on topic though…what was the topic?
@bostonmike:
From the makers of “3 Gallon Condensed Chai Carton®” comes hot cocoa!
Bleh. I can’t imagine that being any good. Big Train makes some nasty stuff.
@Hossofcourse: Yeah, I totally was going to say that I like my hot chocolate Mexican style (hot chocolate, not hot cocoa, because it’s made with chocolate instead of cocoa powder).
But I add honey and cayenne pepper to mine — it is ridic tasty. I will have to try the cinnamon and vanilla, that sounds right up my alley.
Mexican hot chocolate = truly delicious. Especially if you have a crusty baguette or something to dip in it. Ahhh.
P.S. “I don’t drink any hot beverages. It’s the devil’s temperature!”
Best post EVAR!
Meg r0x0rz!
I think Romero is the last of those southern California anchors to have been hired on the strength of his moustache. Fark.com’s been on his case for years as the reporter who specializes in the blindingly obvious.
hmmm. this is funny and true! i just recently added lower-rated chocolate drink to my water to improve the taste of my water!
@f3rg: “And what has it ever gotten me?”
Wet cookies.
Starbucks had some wicked good thick dark chocolate drink thing a few years back, then they stopped making it. Fools.
My not-so-secret recipe is to not use pre-packaged mixes.
1 tbs cocoa
1 tbs dark brown sugar
0.125 tsp cinamon (the real stuff)
500 ml. whole milk.
Bring it to 180 degrees F.
Whisk vigorously.
Meg, now that you’ve [hopefully] sobered up, care to defend or repudiate the monster you’ve created here?
@bostonmike: Yes, somebody did read that far down. It was me.
Whether you use pre-packaged or make home-made, the key to making hot cocoa is using a whisk. It makes the packaged stuff passable, and the home-made perfect.
(‘Cause, no one wants to be swallowin’ little chunks of powdered muck in their drink.)
@faust1200: You forgot one -
CREDIT UNION!
@Mercurypdx: Ha, I beat you to it this time!
I’ll take one hot cocoa, heavy on the Bailey’s, please!
Sounds like we all need to meet in that place where they pounded that golden spike in to join the US* transcontinental railroads. I smell… Cook-off!
* sniff – I guess the Canucks don’t cotton to hot cocoa. They probably drink warmed seal blubber or something…
Baley’s Irish Cream
But it’s true.
@banmojo: We had the same thing at the cafe in Borders (before Starbucks bought it out). It’s just high-quality dark chocolate bits whisked into heated half and half. Enjoy
@banmojo: I actually just remembered the brand of the chocolate in it too – Joseph Schmidt. Go me!
@trai_dep: I nominate your comment for “Best Comment Ever.”
Ric Romero has been an ongoing joke at fark.com ever since he “broke” the story about blogging, YEARS after blogging had hit the mainstream. He’s the master of stating the painfully obvious. Head over to fark and do a search for “Romero”. You’ll see what I mean.