Growing up when I was not feeling well, no matter if I was faking it to avoid school (don’t read that mom) or if I was actually sick, two things could always make me feel better. One was cinnamon sugar toast with the edges cut off (which was normally severed with 7-Up) and the other was hot chocolate with marshmallows. Though as a kid and even now as an adult, if they make a good one (like Stephens hot chocolate) I don’t mind a packaged cocoa mix. What I do/did mind however were the Lucky Charm type marshmallows that they tried to pass off in the cocoa mix with marshmallows as marshmallows. What crap. Those were no marshmallows. I’m not sure what they were, but they don’t melt and get gooey like real marshmallows do and that’s the best part about them. Melting down into and mixing with the cocoa. Plus if you don’t use real marshmallows you can’t reenact the scene from Wizard of Oz and shout out “I’m melting, I’m melting” as they slowly dissipate into the hot … [Read more...]