Why does my mother call hot chocolate "drinking chocolate"? Any ideas?!

Is she scottish? My dad calls it that too, he also calls the remote a 'tv boy' i have no idea why...i have a feeling he makes up a lot of what he says, the whole eat your greens or you won't grow up to be big fat and spotty is another one i can't get my heard round? lol very odd man haha x

Blame it on Cadbury's - they sold and marketed drinking chocolate where as Rowntrees sold their product as cocoa powder. I call it drinking chocolate too and the advert - 'Hot chocolate - drinking chocolate' was a cadbury's Ad. and very very brain washing - almost like a chant - must have worked 'cos we all still call it drinking chocolate.

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It's a term the older generation tend to use to describe the drink. Some older customers at my work (McDonald's) ask for 'drinking chocolate'.

Also, a lot of chocolate powders are marketed as 'drinking chocolate', especially the ones you have to make with milk rather than water.

It might have been an alternate name for hot chocolate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_ch…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_ch…

Well, it is chocolate that you drink. Hot chocolate could refer to solid chocolate that's getting a bit warm.

You can use either hot chocolate or drinking chocolate.

I always referred to it as hot cocoa.

I suppose you could call it drinking chocolate because it is the only form of chocolate that you drink. All other forms are part of food or you eat it.

back in the 70s when it was advertised on the t.v the slogan was hot chocolate drinking chocolate(that might be where its come from)

obviously, because it's drinkable...or because chocolate also comes in a solid form...

Thats what they used to call it a few year ago now it is hot chocolate.

because your drinking chocolate!!!!!!!!!!!! duh lol

Well the answer is "because you drink it".... I have no clue what you're looking for

maybe it's the fact that you're drinking chocolate??

Just a quirky thing? Like we call spaghetti and meat sauce "slops"

uh... let's ask her?