Monday, October 27, 2008

Mini Marshmallows: A Hot Chocolate Examination

In addition to delicious teas, my office offers packets of hot chocolate WITH marshmallows. I prefer mallows to no mallows. I think everyone does. I have yet to meet a person who is like, “Mallows?!?!?! In hot chocolate?!?!? You might as well put olives in your ice cream! You might as well put poo in your burrito!” I have but one complaint about mini-mallows: they dissolve in hot water! I mean, I enjoy sweet mallow foam floating atop my cocoa as much as the next person, but I prefer the taste of bitsy crunch-mallow. It’s like all the best parts of Lucky Charms without any of the stupid cereal part… aaaand it comes in chocolate!

I have three options:

1) Accept things the way they are and drink hot cocoa that may as well have come with NO MALLOWS AT ALL.
2) Microwave my water instead of using the insta-hot on the water cooler so the temperature does not rise to mallow melting levels.
3) Pick all the mallows out and save them in the packet until my hot chocolate cools down enough not to kill my mallow enjoyment.

I have no idea which of these options will make me the least grumpy. I will try them each one-by-one and pay close attention to shifts in my mood. You will have the results as soon as I do.

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