Drink

I'm one of the very few that never got into coffee and I really do not enjoy tea. No matter what, it always tastes like a watered down version of the flavor it is pretending to be. My drink is hot chocolate.

Once while traveling in Burlington, Vermont I found my first and only Hot Chocolate Bar where I tasted my first Mexican Hot Chocolate (also called Aztec).

Now, my husband had found another type of bar, several in fact. Vermont as it turns out is known for microbreweries and he was of the mind to try them all. By the time we got to my bar he was (as I was soon to find out) not in full command of his reflexes or depth perception. I discovered this fact when I asked him if he wanted anything from the menu. He pointed to that menu item in a grand sweeping arch of the arm and pointing of the finger, in process knocking over and spilling the entirety of my drink which had just been placed on the counter.

I was mostly concerned that I was going to have to pay for another hot chocolate or miss out on the experience of tasting my first mexican one. However, to my great relief while one girl started cleaning the counter, floor, cash register, and yes credit card machine, another started making me a new drink. My husband grabbed the paper towel roll they had gotten out and started to drunkenly rip off large bundle after bundle in an attempt to remedy the situation. I told him to go back to the bar next door.

After all that it was 100% worth it. If he had knocked over a mop bucket, tripped another customer and landed on the floor bleeding profusely, it would have been worth it.

The Mission restaurant, Downtown Syracuse serves them and they are small, but fabulous. Williams-Sonoma sells a mix I have yet to try, and you can find recipes on-line that I have yet to make.

or you can travel to Vermont:
Lake Champlain Chocolates
65 Church Street
Burlington, VT 05401