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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2020 13:58:10 GMT -5
For many years I have dropped a peppermint into my hot chocolate.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 17, 2020 14:04:14 GMT -5
For many years I have dropped a peppermint into my hot chocolate.  Good Grief! |
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Post by berkley on Dec 17, 2020 15:37:03 GMT -5
For many years I have dropped a peppermint into my hot chocolate. does it melt, out of curiosity? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2020 15:40:12 GMT -5
For many years I have dropped a peppermint into my hot chocolate. does it melt, out of curiosity? If you are using a candy cane as a stirrer, the sugar dissolves in the hot water as you stir. It's a slow process, but it does eventually all dissolve. If you dropped a starlight (one of the small round peppermint candies) in it would likely dissolve as well since they are mostly sugar. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2020 15:50:27 GMT -5
does it melt, out of curiosity? If you are using a candy cane as a stirrer, the sugar dissolves in the hot water as you stir. It's a slow process, but it does eventually all dissolve. If you dropped a starlight (one of the small round peppermint candies) in it would likely dissolve as well since they are mostly sugar. -M  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 17, 2020 16:02:06 GMT -5
For many years I have dropped a peppermint into my hot chocolate. does it melt, out of curiosity? It melts as a result of a chemical reaction. Curiosity has nothing to do with the melting. |
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Post by tartanphantom on Dec 17, 2020 23:46:39 GMT -5
I love both gingerbread and peppermint.
But gingerbread has the edge.
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Post by brutalis on Dec 21, 2020 9:46:39 GMT -5
Gingerbread for a clean sweep as 1st ever mutual winner!
Which One? Opening presents Christmas Eve or Christmas morning? Growing up ALL of the family on my mom's side gathered for the traditional Christmas Eve. So everyone did a name draw and each adult and grandchild had 1 gift to open. As everyone got older it became more split up as the families all spread across the states. Eventually turned into Christmas at my parents house, my one aunt/uncle and 2 kids along with a visit for awhile from grandparents. The adults sat up all night visiting, talking, playing penny poker as us kids played or watch tv until midnight we all gathered to open up all the gifts under the tree.
Today we are all grown, separated and our own families so nobody gets together. It's open up the presents whatever time one can wake up anymore. So a nice lazy morning of hot tea and toast with music playing while opening gifts. Oh how the times change.
So its Christmas Morning for me.
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Post by Rob Allen on Dec 21, 2020 11:20:35 GMT -5
Definitely Christmas morning.
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Post by impulse on Dec 21, 2020 11:41:12 GMT -5
Both!
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Post by tartanphantom on Dec 21, 2020 18:01:29 GMT -5
When my brothers and I were young, and when all of our kids were young, it was both-- family gifts on Christmas Eve, and Santa on Christmas Day.
Now that everybody's kids are grown, it's Christmas Eve. I suppose that whenever grand-kids are born, it will revert back to both again.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 21, 2020 18:24:42 GMT -5
Christmas morning. I never understood Christmas Eve gift opening.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2020 18:55:18 GMT -5
When I was very young, it was Christmas Eve at my maternal grandparents place, and Christmas Day afternoon at my paternal grandparents house. By the time I was 6, my maternal grandparents had retired and moved to Maine, so Christmas Eve was solely about Midnight Mass, usually with my paternal grandfather (my paternal grandmother passed when I was 4-5). Christmas morning was always with my parents and Santa gifts. My paternal grandfather died my freshman year of high school and petty bickering splintered that side of the family, so Christmas Day became a smaller gathering with that side of the family and remained so until my university years. More petty bickering further splintered that side of the family, and there was no central gathering for the family. It remained just Christmas morning with my folks until they retired and moved as well, and then my dad passed in '99. It was Christmas Day with my mom until I moved to Ohio in '03. Here's it's been the big family gathering on my wife's side the first Sunday in December and then Christmas Day dinner with her folks, but neither was a gift exchange thing, just a gathering to share food and company (though there is a White Elephant thing at the big family gathering). This year the big gathering was cancelled and we're just staying home. So neither really this year.
-M
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Post by Batflunkie on Dec 21, 2020 19:49:25 GMT -5
Christmas morning. I never understood Christmas Eve gift opening. I had an aunt who let my cousins do that one year and it was just so frigging bizarre to me. Did get to play my cousin's present of Viewtiful Joe for Gamecube early, so there's that |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2020 19:51:01 GMT -5
Christmas morning.
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