A Hot Chocolate for Those Who Love to Labour

Society discusses the late twentieth-century fajita craze not nearly as much as it should. In so strange a time, consumers were willing to pay to assemble their own food. Stranger still were the 1950s, when box cake sales soared when a recipe augmentation required customers to supply both eggs and water rather than only water, as was demanded of them prior. It seems that people across the ages have always dreamed of labour.

This natural inclination to keep hours worked above zero has fuelled my interest in a classic Vancouver hot chocolate: Rocky Mountain Chocolate's "The Ultimate Hot Chocolate". This chocolate was wonderfully interactive. I was provided with a chocolate-dipped marshmallow on a stick to melt into my cocoa. Perhaps it was the added labour cost of its production that made this drink all the more worthwhile.

The consistency was minimally thick, leaning into Vancouver-style chocolate while avoiding the faults of the average steamed milk and syrup (written with all contemptuous intent). I was impressed by its metaphorical embodiment of satin and silk. 

The curse of this chocolate was, unfortunately, its holding cell. Overall, I thought the flavour was quite good: a classic milk chocolate with caramel undertones, similar to many Vancouverite chocolates, and not too sweet, although I believe the marshmallow tipped the scale slightly. However, there was a subtle metallic taste to the mélange, and it was because the hot chocolate was stored in a metal container rather than a glass one. I strongly encourage a switch in apparatus. It was like a great painting coated in dust.

Nonetheless, this hot chocolate was worth a second try, and I returned a few days later just for that. This hot chocolate exemplifies the Vancouver hot chocolate market niche: somewhat thin, rich in flavour, and unique in consumption experience. It was fun and interesting, much like our beloved west coast. Being a prime representative of what Vancouver can offer if it so pleases, I naturally invite this chocolate into the heavenly ranks.