So I am trying to warm up (pun fully intended) to a new high-temperature beverage my mom sent me home with last week. It’s Trader Joe’s Spicy Hot Cocoa.
When you hear “hot drink” and “spicy”, you usually think “cinnamon” and “ginger” and fuzzy spices like that. Right? I do. Well… no. This is not that kind of “spicy.” This hot cocoa has cayenne extract in it.
Apparently it’s like the chocolate Mayan kings used to drink. I remember hearing about Mayans drinking chocolate in middle school and thinking, “That sounds utterly smooth, delicious, and fattening.” But it is not any of these words. How disappointing. …I’m really struggling.
As I reluctantly gulp down pepper powders, I wonder: How about you? What is an… exotic… beverage have you tried lately?
