three cocoa quickies
Green & Black’s Maya Gold Organic Hot Chocolate Drink
A fine entry in the ongoing quest for adequately spicy faux-Aztec-Incan-Mayan-Mexican cocoa mixes. The only really crap thing about this hot chocolate is that pretty much almost nothing comes in a cannister of it. It says 7 servings per container, and that’s if you’re a spoon-measuring stickler. This might be tied with the Lake Champlain brand, but really, I’ll need a taste-off for that. TASTE-OFF!
StoryTime Hot Chocolate: Chocolate Raspberry
This suspiciously low-priced “fancy” cocoa from the Brattleboro Food Co-op was too tempting to resist — but it turns out I should have done just that. Good flavour, a good balance of raspberry — but a granular, kind of cloying sugary quality to it that just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. A cloying, granular, sugary bad taste. I mean, it’s not lousy or anything. But I could do better. Life is short.
Swiss Miss Chocolate Sensation
Can I say I liked this better than the Storytime? Because I did. It’s possible these little perforatedly-attached-to-one-another foil packets are infused with a little something extra — memories of fall camping, or perhaps a gas station — but this double-rich blend actually is more chocolatey than even most of the mid-brow cocoas I keep on hand. Could it be that perfect union with spray whipped cream that does the trick? Three out of four stars, in a pinch!
p.s. when are you coming over?