Oppressed with sleepiness, she went to bed and was snuggling down in the perfumed sheets when her eyes fell on the little table by the bedside. Someone had set a cup of hot chocolate there; half asleep, she reached out her hand for it and drank it. Her eyes closed and she fell into a delicious slumber where she dreamed of her lover, a prince as handsome as the God of Love in picture-books, and when he spoke it was with a voice that went straight to her heart.
Arthur Quiller-Couch, "Beauty and the Beast" from The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French (1910)
series of holiday cows I made! nutmeg the eggnog cow, clove the fruit cake cow, holly the peppermint cow, ginger the gingerbread cow, and cocoa the hot chocolate cow!! would like to have these made into plushies eventually, maybe by next holiday season! let me know who your favorite is :3c
I remember back in 2015-2016 when I was reading tinglers for the first time, I skipped this one for a while, because there are a lot of them and chocolate milk just didn't inherently appeal to me as much as other living objects. When I finally read "Handsome Sentient Food Pounds My Butt And Turns Me Gay" I realized I was missing out, and I should have known better- because unlike coffee (the beverage I personally find sexier), chocolate milk has a special significance to the Tingleverse. (I hope someday we get a spaghetti tingler. That could be great for some tentacle-type action. OK maybe my monsterfucker bias is showing.)
This tingler is one I recommend to people who are tingler-curious but aren't really romance fans in general. I love it when tinglers go to unexpected places. Also, some of my favorite tinglers are ones that end with a main character's destruction or some sort of cataclysmic event. It's just something you don't see often in romance, and it makes tinglers more exciting to me that while the story might end with the main characters getting together romantically or parting ways, there are a whole host of other possibilities, like... the main character being fatally wounded and killing an alternate version of his future sexual partners in the middle of the story, and eventually becoming the universe itself. God, this one goes places.
Peppermint is the toothpaste mint, spearmint is the ice cream mint. If for some reason someone could not taste the difference between spearmint and peppermint then I could understand why they'd think mint chip ice cream is nasty, however as a person who CAN, mint chip is refreshing and delicious and one of my top five favourites