The clumps of cocoa at the bottom of the cup
Created | Updated Mar 24, 2002
If you sit down on a wintry evening with a big blanket, a good book, and a mug of hot chocolate, you will probably have made the latter yourself. If you did not, then this user page has nothing to do with anyhting you might think or feel, and I highly suggest that you leave right this minute, before I can contaminate your thoughts.
For those of you who are still with me, you know how making hot chocolate goes. You dump the contents of the packet of hot chocolate into hot water (or maybe vice-versa?). Or if you make it home-made, then you go through lots of un-necessary mixing, scalding, stirring and tasting. My pity be with you. But you still have the problem that I have. Once the chocolate mix (home-made or commercial) is combined with the water, you must stir. And stir. And stir. And stir. The delicious-smelling steam is hitting your face as you stir with your handy silver spoon and you are dying to have just a taste of the creamy liquid in the cup in front of you. So you stop stirring.
Then, you cuddle up with the items I mentioned at the beginning of this page and start to read. You drink your hard-earned cup of hot chocolate and it thoroughly warms you up. Until......you reach the bottom. And there, in plain sight, mocking, and laughing at you, are the little clumps of cocoa that didn't dissolve with the rest. You scream with rage and vow to get them the next time you make hot chocolate. But you know the truth. Oh? You don't? Well, then, I'll tell you truth. No matter how much you mix and stir, stir and mix, those clumps will never be gone. And that's life. What an awful world, eh?
For those of you who are still with me, you know how making hot chocolate goes. You dump the contents of the packet of hot chocolate into hot water (or maybe vice-versa?). Or if you make it home-made, then you go through lots of un-necessary mixing, scalding, stirring and tasting. My pity be with you. But you still have the problem that I have. Once the chocolate mix (home-made or commercial) is combined with the water, you must stir. And stir. And stir. And stir. The delicious-smelling steam is hitting your face as you stir with your handy silver spoon and you are dying to have just a taste of the creamy liquid in the cup in front of you. So you stop stirring.
Then, you cuddle up with the items I mentioned at the beginning of this page and start to read. You drink your hard-earned cup of hot chocolate and it thoroughly warms you up. Until......you reach the bottom. And there, in plain sight, mocking, and laughing at you, are the little clumps of cocoa that didn't dissolve with the rest. You scream with rage and vow to get them the next time you make hot chocolate. But you know the truth. Oh? You don't? Well, then, I'll tell you truth. No matter how much you mix and stir, stir and mix, those clumps will never be gone. And that's life. What an awful world, eh?
