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Don't like cocoa but I like wine. :-)

lol Allan although it must be said a half decent stilton should go with it

Pauline a good wine is always a pleasure

Awesome, Errol. We can buy stilton here but the quality is not the best :-(

I spend every New Year Day with Stilton and good port

Stilton is nice with wine as well...... but I didn't have any so just drank the wine.

Another bonus about stilton is that it destroys the aftertaste of cocoa

true and true

I only use cocoa to bake with. Don't like it as a drink :-(

In winter I have a few hot chocolates, but I prefer coffee (strong, black & no sugar). The only tea I like is chrysanthemum :-D

Aussies like Milo. I was 12 when my family came to Oz, I never developed a taste for it :-)

is there an Oz equivalent to cocoa?

No I don't like Cocoa or Horlicks, too sickly ,never been one for Ovaltine either.
Only tried any of them once or twice....but I didn't like them.

I'd prefer a glass of white vino,
Never had it until I was of legal age to drink it.!

Trust Allan to go for Port ,tho as you say ,nice with a good cheese.

Hi I find if cocoa has not been stirred properly it tends to end up all horrible & lumpy. That’s why I find it’s sometimes best to avoid it as it’s an acquired taste that not everybody likes. :-D

Strange coincidence that this thread was put up by Errol. I used to love cocoa myself but have gone off it now. For all the same sort of reasons mentioned.

Strange to find a thread where everybody seems to agree. :-) :-) :-)

I am a bit odd about chocolate,don't like it much and find the idea of hot drinking chocolate kind of not quite right.

Think it must be something to do with the combination of milk and cocoa I don't like because I do like really strong 85+% chocolate.

I prefer cocoa, as hot chocolate is too sweet.

I have never poured boiling water on it before adding to a cake mix, I reduce amount of flour & add a small amount of baking powder.

I used to like Horlicks as a child, but now prefer to take my malt as a nice Scottish, or Irish, beverage.

Malt is very good for you, I am sure, Allan. Whether you have it as a warm drink, or as a biscuit ingredient. Or mashed to a pulp, mixed with water from the Brecon Beacons or the Scottish Highlands, boiled up and the residue bottled for 15 years. I prefer my drinks not to have been made in 1998 and left.

Carol - you are the only one who likes cocoa on this thread. :-0 ;-)

15 years is good, John, but I have been permitted to taste malt much older...very, very smooth: and for every drop to be savoured :-)

HI John I have said it’s an acquired taste that not everybody likes. Brecon Beacons or the Scottish Highlands, noooooooooooooooooooo not for me. Boiled up and the residue bottled for 15 years I prefer my drinks to have been made in 1998 or longer and left with the name Jack Daniels on it. :-D

:-D :-D :-D My son loves Jack Daniels as well. Assume that is molasses.

In my drinking days (over 30 years ago) I loved one malt in particular. My very favourite was Longmorn Glenlivet, which I could only buy in Harrods or in a little bar within University Arms in Cambridge. It was very peaty and not hugely different taste to Glenmorangie - creamy and gentle on the back of the palate.

My wife bought me a bottle of The Glenlivet early in our marriage and I never drank any of it. Poured it for guests. I was a one malt person and could immediately taste any impostors like The Glenlivet or other glenlivets.