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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TeddyTottie" data-source="post: 2316754" data-attributes="member: 519030">I remember being absolutely bowled over Spanish hot chocolate when I was a child in the 70s.  We used to take the caravan to Spain for 4 weeks during the school summer hols, my parents’ reasoning being that it was ‘cheaper to live’ over there, once you got yourself to Spain.  And possibly it was, but I’m fairly sure that what they really meant was, it was possible to drink lots of Rioja and Fundador and Triple Sec and smoke endless Gitanes and Disc Bleu for not a lot of money.  That’s what grown-ups did in the 70s, innit? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />On occasion, as the prospect of another night sweating in a sleeping bag palled, my parents would push the boat out and book us  in for a brief stay in a Parador.  We were staying in one fairly high in the Picos de Europa mountains, so hot choc for breakfast was entirely appropriate even in the height of summer.I was expecting something like Cadbury’s drinking chocolate, what I got was this fantastically thick, rich, powerfully sweet and chocolatey stuff which was almost too thick to pour.  I can remember it vividly almost 50 years later.  I also remember that, greedy child though I was, even I couldn’t finish the cup.  It’s made with cornflour, I think, and buckets of chocolate.  The non-keto version of your link, I suspect!</blockquote>

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