10.21.08
Is this Weird?
My family was relatively well-off for most of my childhood. However, my parents were fairly tight-fisted when it came to buying kid-friendly foods such as Squeezables, Fruit Roll-ups and Quik. However, my parents would buy us hot chocolate mix in the packets. Now I love(d) chocolate milk, so much so that I would drink my mom’s Slim-Fast shakes just to get something resembling it in my mouth. One night, I was really craving some chocolate milk, so I took a packet of Nestle’s hot chocolate, and mixed it with milk.
Interesting fact: Hot chocolate powder and milk, do not mix!
The hot chocolate powder developed into globules that floated on top of the milk. The globules were moist on the outside, and dry on the inside. If I took your spoon and stirred the milk really fast, I would get smaller hot chocolate globules, and a good deal of powder on the kitchen counter. Then Mom yelled at me for making a mess, so I stopped doing that. I found then that smooshing the globules against the side of the glass with the back of my spoon was the best way to kind of, sort of, get the hot chocolate mix and the milk to get along.
The next step of course was to drink this concoction a spoonful at a time. All the time, I ensured that I the right number of tiny hot chocolate globules in my milk=filled spoon to somewhat approximate chocolate milk.
I am sure this all sound really weird and morally questionable, but here is probably the strangest part of the story.
I still do it.
