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That white film across my hot chocolate? The marshmallows. Seriously, what’s the point? Oh, and that spoon? It’s an environmentally friendly starch spoon that’s really gross to eat off of. Stoopid Environment. Blerg.
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October 2nd, 2008 at 7:06 am
Last winter my marshmallows would sometimes melt. The hot chocolate mix package emphasized to use “hot but not boiling water” to make it. When I let my water rest longer after boiling my marshmallows survived a bit longer. This winter I am thinking of getting a mix without marshmallows, and adding my own more substantial marshmallows. Given your lack of choice regarding the spoon I suppose you can’t control the hot chocolate preparation process. Best of luck for future marshmallow longevity.
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:21 am
Okay, so does the starch spoon dissolve in the liquid? Doesn’t that make it taste funny? I dislike hot chocolate (anythink milky like that *gag*) and I dislike marshmallows (even roasted on a fire, but flaming marshmallows make cool patterns in the dark) so I guess this will never be a dilema I am faced with. I’ll give you a brownie point for being environmentally conscious though.
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:24 am
I shouldn’t complain because I had this at work. And I have no choice about the spoons, since we’re going Green. But eating off them (and the forks) is like eating off cardboard. You have to eat so your tongue doesn’t touch the utensil. Or just bring your own from home, which is what I normally do
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:26 am
I never understood the benefit of marshmallows in hot chocolate. Of course, I never understood the benefit of hot chocolate. I’m a coffee guy.
And that starch spoon sounds really gross.
Why can we just live on Coruscant and not worry about this whole pesky environmentalism…?
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:40 am
I have eaten off said spoons and they are quite disgusting. Luckily Parisiennes don’t care about the environment so I use as many plastic utensils as I want. Okay, not true - there are recycling bins on every corner but this whole train ticket system is the most wasteful thing I’ve seen in years! And styrofoam cups! YIKES!
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:23 am
You definitely need to BYOM!
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:44 am
Who drinks hot chocolate at work? Hot chocolate is for snowy, cold days when work/school is canceled and you sit inside in your jammies, start a fire in the hearth, wrap in a comforter, and sip hot chocolate from a mug you hold with both your hands.
Work? That’s a crappy cup of coffee in a styrofoam cup. I hate coffee, but I have to have it at work to wake up. And i only have it there.
I think I want to to think more about the hot chocolate scene….
HUGS…
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:49 am
Polt: I only drink coffee at work as well, and 3 months ago I never drank it. I’m afraid I’m getting a bit addicted. Sigh. Damn, another moral high horse I have to climb down off of. I use one of our work travel mugs with the groovy logo though. (okay, the logo sucks and is sooo not groovy) If I’m forced to buy coffee in the cafeteria they give us .25 off with a mug. Whooppee. Speaking of coffee, why hasn’t my admin made any yet?
Your hot chocolate scene was lovely, but make it hot apple cider to make it even better.
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:20 am
I don’t drink anything hot, not coffee, no tea, no hot chocolate. I don’t drink any of them iced either (I can’t understand how coffee can smell so good, but taste so bad.). I also gave up caffeine about 6 months ago. I’m also not a fan of marshmallows; air, sugar and no taste-why bother? Plus they don’t go well with diet soda.
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 am
Craig: Why not complain? Insist that going Green against your wishes is a violation of your civil rights. Demand a supply of plastic utensils for your use. Claim your doctor has ordered you to cut down on corn starch consumption. You can try to see if the company will also carry non-meltable marshmellows, but that might be more difficult.
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:09 am
john: Seek professional help immediately.
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:16 am
Dave S.: Like Cancer Boy there’s no hope for me.
Craig: I give you a dramatic representation of your morning marshmallows: http://members.cox.net/seshomaru/staypuff.bmp
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:23 am
Aw. Poor Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. He didn’t mean anyone harm. But he tastes great in my hot chocolate. At least he would if he didn’t disolve so damn quick.
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:30 am
off subject……CYE
( I didn’t know what that stood for until the other day)
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:38 am
Thanks Jill! Those are awesome!
For everyone else, Jill just sent me this link to Star Wars Valentines:
http://listoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/10/star-wars-valentines-of-day.html
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:38 am
Jill: Great. Now you have the entire Puntabulous readership checking their email for something off-subject…
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:39 am
Ewww I hate marshmallows. I think I just don’t like white stuff, cause I hate marshmallows (and fluff), sour cream, whipped cream and milk. But I do like mayo.
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:43 am
I’m with you Nicky, but I knew if I said that Dave was going to take that post straight to the gutter.
No mayo for me though. Ice-cream is okay and except for coffee no brown liquids either, cola, hot chocolate, etc.
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:44 am
Could it be that you are coming around to a world view in which things related to winter are held in disfavor? My work is done here.
SK
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:47 am
White stuff…must….make….joke….ARG!
Suburban Kamikaze: Never!
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:50 am
Holy crap, Jill, those are freakin’ hilarious.
“Your the small thermal exhaust port…right below my main port.”
“Yoda one for me.”
“You shut down all the garbage compactors…in my heart!”
Funny funny funny.
(though that last one — just to show how much of a geek I am — should be “garbage *mashers*” not “compactors” — Luke to Threepio: “Shut down all the garbage mashers on the detention level! Do you copy?!”)
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:52 am
White stuff? Like snow? And poodle puppies? And spring meadows full of fresh daisies? I mean, what else could you possibly be eluding to?
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:36 am
Jill: Those were really funny.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:55 am
Cotton bedsheets? Q-tips? Snow White and the Seven Dwarves? My grandmother’s hair? Mashed potatos? Salty sea foam? The President’s residence? Dandruff? Copier paper? What white stuff, indeed?
HUGS…
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:01 pm
MMMM MASHED POTATOES. Those are my favorite, so they disqualify my distaste for the white stuff.
And I do like snow and winter, btw, but I don’t eat them.
I have a great story about my birth (Dec 14th) but I’ll save that for a blog or something.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Q-Tips are evil and take pleasure in poking brains.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Craig: Totally. Poke it in the wrong way and I swear it turns into spear piercing your gray matter.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:10 pm
oops! sorry Dave S.
I just wasn’t sure if I should post the link in the comments
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
It’s all chemicals anyway, what does it matter what form they come in?
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I never got the marshmallow thing. It’s like eating cheese with your watermelon. Why ruin a good thing? I suppose it takes all kinds, but sometimes I find it hard to carry the burden of being the only one making sense in the world. It’s not easy. I didn’t choose this role–fate chose it for me.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Nicky: Mashed Potatoes = gross.
Craig & Dave S.: Exactly how far in are you pushing the q-tip?
Jill: AWESOME link! Thanks!
People in the Sun: I thought it was just me!
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
John: I wouldn’t know. I refuse to use them.
Mashed Potatoes = Wonderful
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
john: You are not me. I looove mashed potatoes. Although I do agree with you about the coffee. It does not live up to its aroma.
polt: Too true - hot chocolate is for snowy, cold days, blah blah blah. And jammies…yay jammies!
I like to put 2 hot chocolate packs in my cup of water. 1 isn’t chocolaty enough.
Jill: Those are great. Yoda best!
Here’s some more Star Wars fun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Okay, mashed potatos are okay, but I could live without them.
Snow? Don’t get me started. 6 freaking feet of the stuff on my front lawn last year and the 8 foot snowbanks beside my driveway pretty much cured me of any romantic notions I have about snow.
Only people who live where it doesn’t snow much think snow is lovely.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I can definitely live without mashed potatoes. Starchy, flavorless mushiness. Ick.
But I hate snow more.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:44 pm
If your mashed potatoes are flavorless, you’re doing something wrong.
Also, I hate when people called mashed potatoes “smashed potatoes”.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Michelle: That video was very funny.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
What about gravy? Gravy makes everything taste better.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I thought mashed potatoes were only for sculpting small scale models of Devils Tower?
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Tam: I don’t know that gracy would make hot chocolate, the original point of this post, any better….
And Tam again, I live in south central PA, which, while we don’t get 6 feet of snow, we DO get snow in the winter. And I LOVE snow!
People, Q-tips are not meant to be RAMMED into the ear as if you’re trying to play the eardrum like a snare drum. Sheesh, what are they teaching these young kids nowadays???
HUGS….
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Hey, gravy *does* make everything better!
(except when it’s too hot and burns your skin…)
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Polt: In my perfect world it would only snow on Christmas eve, soft fluffy sparkly snow that would nicely cover everything, would last until Jan. 2 then melt and the temp would rise to about 75. I was truly born in the wrong hemisphere.
I’ve completey lost the hot chocolate train of thought it appears. Booze, I think booze might make hot chocolate more palatable.
FDot: When I went to the Devil’s Tower that’s all I could think of. Where are all the potatoes?
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Dave: Grrrr. Now I’ve got an image in my head I really don’t want. Thanks for that.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Tam: you are on the right track, a shot of peppermint schnapps in hot chocolate is the way to go.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Dave and Tam - why don’t you two do it already?
Tam - I live in Colorado, so I feel your pain. If I knew how, I’d post a snow picture. But a light snow can be lovely.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Michelle M: Right on! These two have been flirting up a storm on the Puntabulous
message boardscomment section far too long. It’s about time they GOT! IT! ON!October 2nd, 2008 at 2:42 pm
ok, you kids provoked my motherly instincts: Do not ever use Q-tips, at least not to clean your ear-canals. Q-tips just push the wax further in and then you have to go to the doctor, who tries to flush the stuck wax out with a water-hydrogenperoxide mix, which bubbles in your ear, and wax will not come out and then the doctor will flush some more and more and more, while you are holding a receptacle under your year to catch all that water-hydrogenperoxide-ear-wax mix, which spills over onto your clothes, ruins them and you have to go home to change. Do not use Q-tips!
If I never see snow again in my life and the accompanying weather, it will be to soon. Hate it, hate it, hate it. Been there, seen that, crashed my mom’s car, good riddance.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Craig - what about potato salad?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_tKu4Zr54c
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Mmm gravy covered mashed potatoes. With butter and salt.
I never heard anyone say “smashed potatoes” before Craig, but I feel like it would annoy me too.
And I think if Dave and Tam hook up, Craig should be there and then blog about it. Makes sense…..
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Love potato salad. Love macaroni salad. Love cole slaw most of all. And my sister-in-law makes a fantastic broccoli salad. You’ll think it sounds gross, but it’s awesome.
Nicky: Great idea! I can live blog it!
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Michelle M. - and I LOVE potato salad and macaroni salad, but ONLY from home. I find potato/macaroni salads in restaurants/other homes to be inferior compared to the deliciousness I find at home.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Craig - Thanks! And make sure you get a lot of shots of Dave’s abs (no offense Tam)
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Holy shit, the kink factor is ramped up in here today. No offence taken Nicky, seriously. LOL
I don’t like broccoli. I only eat it because its good for you.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Tam: Are you equating me to broccoli? I think I should be offended…
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I’ve found that the best way to jazz up your hot chocolate and not care about the starch spoon taste is to add a shot of peppermint schnapps.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Chocolate is a gift from the heavens. To pollute it with other ingredients is heresy. Craig needs to be burned for this crime. We can use the fire to eat the marshmellows we didn’t put in the hot chocolate. Everybody wins!
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Dave: I am soooo not going there. Its only going to encourage them further.
(as if they need any encouragement)
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:50 pm
On second thought, it wasn’t Craig, it was the people at the Coffee Shop or whatever. Which is good, I kinda liked Craig and I prefer to burn total strangers at the stake.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:51 pm
And ew. Broccoli has high sulfur content. Out of respect for mankind I avoid it.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
So, let me get this straight….we’re gonna have Craiggers blogging live about a Tam and Dave S. hookup wherein they eat mashed potates and gravy with starch spoons and drink hot chocolate with snapps stirred with Q-tips whilst it snows outside….
Is that right?????
Frankly, I don’t care if it’s right or not, just so long as we get photos of Dave S.’s abs. Seriously……
HUGS…
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:01 pm
polt: will they or won’t they be wearing their jammies?
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:04 pm
I told you, I don’t drink hot chocolate okay? Ain’t gonna happen.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Tam: 1 hot chocolate and schnapps - hold the hot chocolate - coming up.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Much better Michelle, now someone is listening to me.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Oh and it seems that I’m not really an integral part of this whole live blogging scenario so you just go ahead and set it up with Dave, Craig and I’ll be happy to sit back and watch with everyone else.
This could be “really” interesting.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:30 pm
So it’s me and Tam, drinking schnapps while Dave S. smears mashed potatoes all over his naked body?
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Hey! Equal pay for equal time! I’m all for Dave S. flashing his abs, but let’s not hide Tam now.
FDot: You are made of awesome!
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Tam: I think many of Craig’s readers just want to spend a snowy day eating mashed potatoes (and gravy) off of Dave S.’s abs (without the starch spoon). Since you have the wrong parts, you’d probably just be in the way : ).
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Oh and Nicky, thanks to this,
“OH! And the new Britney single “Womanizer” is out now!! GO LISTEN EVERYONE!!”
that song (and little else) has been in my head for 6 damn days now.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:39 pm
You’re right Michelle. Sigh. But hey, I like to watch as much as the next straight girl (or gay guy apparently) so bring it on.
Time to go home. buh-bye.
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Long, long day at work and I finally check in and think, “Hey, I have something to say, since it’s not just about which TV programs to add to my watch-someday list! My contribution can be that if you put hot chocolate powder IN your coffee, it’s fabulous. With or without marshmallows.”
But then the next thing I know the marshmallows are all over DaveS and Tam, along with various other food items, and suddenly no one seemed to care about the hot chocolate anymore. Poor hot chocolate.
[Hmmm. No hot chocolate here. But TwoPi is making hot biscuits, and those are just as good.]
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Love hot biscuits with butter and jelly! Mmmmmm
Definitely gonna have to try a packet of hot chocolate in my coffee tomorrow.
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Michelle M. - YAY! I’m so proud. Boy don’t try to front I-I know just-just what you a-a-are!
Everyone - I’m confused! So what exactly is going on? Tam pulled out (lol) of her Dave sexcapades so now Dave is just gonna link to a pic of his abs we haven’t seen?!
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:39 pm
OK, Dave S., as long as they’re garlic mashed.
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:53 am
You really have 74 comments for this post. Really? Your readers are insane.
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:39 am
Sheesh… this was a microcosm of my love life. Potential sex. Potential sex with a girl. Potential sex with a drunk girl. Potential broadcast sex with a drunk girl. Potential broadcast sex without a girl. Potential just photographed sex with myself. Likely sex with just myself.
And mashed potatoes.
…sigh…
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Aww. Don’t feel bad Dave. S. I think you can still do the “just photographed sex with yourself” and share it with the message boards though.
Or just photographed abs.
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
If I do, then they might end up on Polt’s site…
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Ξ_Heather: I’m currently drinking a cup of coffee with hot chocolate powder mixed in. And it is wonderful.
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Dave S. - Good point. You’re totally gonna end up in a shirtless du jour post.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Craig: It’s awesome on a cold winter night, curled up watching Lost. Yum.
Nicky: It scares me that I know what you’re talking about…
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:58 pm
AH, Nicky, you gave a shoutout to Shirtlessness du jour!!! LOVE it!!!
And Dave S., you neednt worry about a photo of you appearing on the Palace…I have a stock of….private photos, just waiting for a contribution from you!
(fingers together like Mr. Burns) exxxxxxxcellent……
HUGS…