"Hot Chocolate" or "Hot Cocoa"?

[tvguy]

Hot chocolate here, which infers to me either using a mix that you just add water to, or heating up chocolate milk you bought at the store.

My mom did make hot coco once.......where you take the coco, and add your own sugar and milks, it was a giant pain because coco takes forever to dissolve, I think she had to boil it for 10 minutes, then cool it before we could drink it. Too much work.

 

[kimmar067]

Hot chocolate, usually. Tomatoes... Tomahtoes...

....hmmmmm, I say TOH-mah-tos...

 

[pearlieq]

Hot chocolate. Somthing about calling it hot cocoa sounds pretentious to me. Dunno why.

For some reason I have the opposite idea in my head. Cocoa is what your mom makes you out of the packet. Hot Chocolate is what you pay $4 at Starbucks. I also don't really know why.

 

[Andtototoo]

Hot chocolate.

Cocoa sounds too much like caca.

 

[Hannathy]

Hot chocolate Unless I make it out of cocoa and then it is hot cocoa. There is a difference.

I like both but I do like to make it with milk and sugar and cocoa but my DS likes the packets so that is what I use for him and that is hot chocolate.

 

[trip]

It's not an either or choice. They are two different things.

 

[minniebeth]

Hot Chocolate, even if it's powder out of a package, and besides, the only thing that really matters is

"Here we only got one rule: never, ever, let it cool!"

 

[cm8]

Hot chocolate is what we call it when we make it from scratch at home using real chocolate and milk and cream.

Hot cocoa is what we call it from the box

 

[Scurvy]

I say hot chocolate. For some reason, cocoa always sounded more juvenile to me---kind of like saying "mommy and daddy" instead of "mom and dad". Wierd, I know...

I feel that way too. I don't know why. The word "cocoa" actually annoys me a little bit, unless it's being used to refer to "cocoa powder" specifically. That's the only way I ever use it - I never say the word "cocoa" without following it with "powder". I always refer to the thing you drink as "hot chocolate", whether it's made with cocoa powder or hot chocolate mix or melted chocolate. It's hot and it's chocolate flavored, so I figure "hot chocolate" is accurate no matter what the ingredients are!

 

[Mermaid02]

Hot chocolate or Cocoa... never "hot cocoa"

 

[FINFAN]

chocolate...I don't eat a cocoa bar, or cocoa milk, cocoa -covered strawberries......

 

[kristina87]

Hot chocolate, I don't think I've ever said hot cocoa

 

[disney1990]

As far as I am concerned, they are 2 different products. Hot Cocoa is what I make with unsweetened cocoa, sugar and milk. Hot chocolate generally comes out of a package.

 

[DisGirlAllie]

Mostly hot chocolate, but I'll sometimes say hot cocoa.

 

[redrosesix]

cocoa if I use cocoa powder....hot chocolate if it comes from a packet

Ita. My hot cocoa also has whipped cream and chocolate shavings on top.

Hot chocolate is what I get from a vending machine.