The only problem with coffee cups is that you can't get enough water in them, plus the desired ammount of chocolate [I have yet to determine the saturation point of hot chocolate mix] and then stir it up without sloshing half of it over the side.

Inevitably, you will wind up not stirring the hot chocolate as long as you should. When hot chocolate is understirred, one of two phenomena will occur:

1] Clumpius-bottomus

The un-dissolved mix will cement itself to the bottom, to reappear as a sludge-type monster that is quite scary to see as your face is completely buried in the cup at a 90 degree upside-down angle as you suck the remaining dregs of hot chocolate from the cup. This sludge is now permenently fused to the bottom of the cup unless removed with a chisel immediately.

It's quite astounding how fast hot chocolate sludge will solidify. You leave the coffee cup standing next to the sink right-side up, by the time it gets through the dishwasher the sludge has hardened and can only be removed by potent chemical means. I'm all in favor of skipping over the tile grout and just building foundations with hot chocolate.

2] Zee Bomb de Cacao [aka Gaseous Chocolate Detonations]

This is the cool one. For some unknown reason, when hot chocolate is improperly mixed individual clumps of chocolate will float about as little planets orbiting about in the liquid.

These little 'planets' of chocolate form a protective shell. Dry hot chocolate powder is sealed inside a gooey shell which will eventually bob to the surface and knock into your lips as you're drinking. This causes the shell to break and a little powdery explosion occurs, making you reel back in fear of magical powdery dust mites coming out of your drink to attack you and make you their slave.

It is unclear as to WHY they create such a fragile shell, and also why they find it so amusing to randomly go POOF and scare people.

[note: if you've never been frightened by a Gaseous Chocolate Detonation, there may very possibly be something disasterously wrong with your pituitary gland]

So consider the following -- maybe the chocolate in the middle of these little puff balls are like the Queen chocolate powder molecules, and if the Sludge chocolate molecules don't molecularly bond together to protect the Queen chocolate molecules, they'll be thrown in chocolate jail for insubordination. Or maybe the hot chocolate molecules realize that their existance is about to be abruptly cut off, and therefore they're making these little pods in a last-ditch attempt to ensure the survival of their species.

Then again, it might just be some sort of chemical reaction of the powder to the water, which i won't discuss because i hate chemistry with a passion usually reserved for Scum of the Earth such as Britany Spears. But it almost seems to be that the hot chocolate mix is waterproof [much like the waterproof dirt i bought over the summer], thus the need for stirring the stuff. This of course begs the question that we don't really want answered: Just what IS hot chocolate mix made out of? Could it be that hot chocolate factories, much like Jello factories, are conveniently located next to slaughterhouses and stockyards?

And don't forget the marshmallows: how do you dehydrate a marshmallow? The hot chocolate mix that comes with little marshmallows, when rehydrated they don't become very big. This of course means you have to ask: How big where the marshmallows BEFORE they dehydrated them? Is there some ammount of water that you can't simply stir into the marshmallows? What if they started out as regular-size marshmallows, so theoretically if they didn't melt in the hot chocolate, eventually they would swell to the size of a normal marshmallow? If thats the case: How big would fully-rehydrated Lucky Charms marshmallows be? HUGE! I'd like a giant clover, or maybe a blue moon. WOW!!

Then again, if they actually started out life as witchy-small marshmallows and then were dehydrated into the even-smaller-witchy-small marshmallows we find in hot chocolate mix, where is the witchy-small marshmallow factory? Can we go out and purchase non-dehydrated witchy-small marshmallows? I'd like that. You get your big, your small, and your witchy-small. I'll bet the witchy-small ones might be mistaken for the tops of candy corn though. Or maybe little pills, which is why people don't WANT non-dehydrated witchy-small marshmallows because idiot kids would mistake pills for them and eat the pills or put pills in other people's hot chocolate, which in retrospect would be kinda funny since god only knows what sort of reaction you'd have [due to the aforementioned odd properties of hot chocolate]

Where exactly IS the hot chocolate factory? Anybody who thinks they actually import this stuff from Heidi's little gnome-village in the swiss alps is clearly out of their gourd. It's an important question to consider, since we're ingesting this stuff we may as well know exactly what sort of toxins we're taking in.

So you just sit and ponder that, and i'll be over here, making some special hot chocolate for you.

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