MC: So uplifting.
AS: But in a funny, dry way which I can’t do because I’m too American and too earnest. But if I were Eastern European I’d be able to say it in a funnier way.
MC: Just take a drag of a cigarette and then blow the smoke out and then deliver the line and I think everybody will get what you’re getting at. All right. All the Witcher books, all the Witcher books.
AS: Just all of them at once.
MC: Julian, what’s your recommendation?
JC: My recommendation is chocolate. I went to a local Williamsburg, there’s a little chocolate factory. It’s called Fine & Raw Chocolate. They’re known for making chocolate bars and truffles, chocolate truffles. But over the pandemic, they had to try new stuff because sales were declining. And so they started making these chocolate spreads and apparently they became so popular that now they’re known as a chocolate spread company first and then chocolate bar and truffles second. So we went to the factory and we did a little tour and I was like, “All right, we’ll buy a spread.” Tried the spread, it’s fricking amazing. So I suggest everyone go to fineraw.com. You can pick up a spread, there’s chocolate hazelnut butter spread which is the one I may have finished way too soon.
MC: That’s like a Nutella analog basically.
JC: Kind of. My partner actually literally said this morning, “This is way better than Nutella.” So if you’re a fan of Nutella or any chocolate spread, this is something that you might want to try. And there’s a bunch of different flavors too that you can choose.
MC: Did they make drinking chocolate?
JC: They did at the shop. No, I don’t think they have any sort of drinkable chocolate things that you can buy from their website. But if you are in Brooklyn ever, you can swing by their little factory and they have little station there where you can order all sorts of chocolatey drinks.
MC: Nice.
AS: Mike, do you whisk drinking chocolate with your matcha whisk or is that forbidden?
MC: Oh no. The matcha whisk is just for matcha.
AS: OK.
MC: Drinking chocolate, in my day we used to just call it hot chocolate but now it’s drinking chocolate. It’s like you can’t get beats anymore, it’s always beat root. It’s like one of those weird marketing things where it’s this is for kids but this is for adults. So adults have drinking chocolate. I don’t know.
JC: Usually when I make hot chocolate it’s from cacao powder. So is that what drinking chocolate? Is it specifically something else?
MC: No, it’s exactly the same thing.
JC: OK.
MC: It’s just it has a fancy name because it’s fancy.
JC: It is fancy.
AS: I can’t keep up with this.
LG: It sounds alcoholic. Drinking chocolate.
