hot chocolate mystery solved

A couple of weeks ago I was on my way to programming 1 and I grabbed a hot chocolate packet out of a new box of hot chocolate (that I brought back from my parents' house I think) and I stopped off in the faculty lounge, dumped the hot chocolate packet and some hot water into my cup, put the lid on, and went to class. So far, so good.

When I got to class I was walking around helping people and I took a sip of my hot chocolate, "ooohhh gross!" I yelled out. In a normal class this would not be that noticeable since there would be general student working on a project noise, but not in this programming class, these students are totally silent while they program, an unnatural phenomenon that could easily by the topic of another post. Anyway, the "hot chocolate" that I made in my cup (which has recently held a variety of teas and coffees with perhaps not the most thorough washings between) definitely tasted more like the last three drinks I made than the current one. I tried another timid sip just in case. Definitely not drinkable. So the rest of the class I was walking around with my stomach growling in protest of the lack of hot morning drink.

When I got back upstairs I dumped the cup out and the water was surprisingly clear, "hmm, there must have only been marshmallows and no hot chocolate in that packet," I thought to myself. I don't really like those little fake marshmallows they put in hot chocolate, which is why I surmised that this box must be from my parents' house. Anyway, I continued on, I actually washed the cup I think, but then it fell apart, which is a whole different story.

So today I went to make hot chocolate in my mug, I got a packet out, dumped it in the mug, and "ah ha! no chocolate! At least now I'm onto their game!" I thought to myself (actually the "ah ha" part might have been out loud) so I grabbed the box to look and see how many of these defaulty (a word which means relatively the same thing as faulty that Carolyn coined, if you say it to yourself a few times you will discover that it is much more fun than just saying something is faulty) packets were left and I noticed that some of the packets say "marshmallows" and some say "chocolate." Apparently this is meant to be a two step process of making the hot chocolate and then dumping the marshmallows on top. Who knew?