There is absolutely nothing wrong with drinking hot chocolate during the summertime.
Many years ago I asked for hot chocolate at McDonald’s. I was told they don’t sell it during the summer.
Obviously, many people won’t go near hot chocolate during the summer, but will drink it up during the winter.
Have these people ever stopped to ask themselves why they follow this ridiculous rule?
Funny thing is, they’ll drink HOT coffee from McDonald’s during the summer, and we all know how hot McDonald’s coffee is!
I’m autistic. One of the prime features of autism is rigid thinking.
I’m not going to believe that most of the people who find it unthinkable to drink hot chocolate in the summer are autistic.
These mostly neurotypical people can’t think outside the box and are slaves to marketing. THIS is rigid thinking!
To be fair, I’m sure that there are Autistics who won’t drink hot chocolate in the summer but will gulp it down in the winter.
But the majority of people who subscribe to this rigid thinking are neurotypical — because the vast majority of the human population is neurotypical.
Now get this: There are people who won’t touch hot chocolate in the summer but will drink hot tea in the summer! And hot soup! And the mother of them all — hot coffee!
Of course, I find nothing odd about consuming any hot liquid in the dead of summer.
But I just don’t get why hot chocolate is off limits for many people during summer months, while hot coffee is always being brewed up.
Where is the logic?
What is it about hot chocolate that makes it weird to drink on a hot summer day, but it’s perfectly okay to drink hot coffee when it’s 95 degrees outside?
And I’m sure Panera sells plenty of piping hot tomato soup between May and August.
Beverages are typically consumed indoors, where the temperature is controlled, regardless of the weather or time of year.
So even if it’s 105 degrees outside, INSIDE it’s air conditioned (usually, anyways).
So if it’s 72 or 74 degrees inside during a heat wave, what’s wrong with drinking hot chocolate?
You either like chocolate in hot liquid form, or you don’t.
What difference does the temperature OUTSIDE make, as long as it’s “room temperature” indoors?
Whether it’s 73 degrees inside from the A/C on a sweltering summer day, or 73 degrees inside during a snowstorm, room temperature is room temperature is room temperature.
So stop worrying about “what’s right,” “what’s normal,” and “people don’t do that,” and drink your hot chocolate on the same day you splashed around in a swimming pool!
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