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Donut Critic - Hot Chocolate From November 4th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Brought to you by Hot Chocolate.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, the donut critic is here. Ben is
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  Speaker 2: with us. Ben is not the donut critic today, he's
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  Speaker 2: the hot chocolate critic. Hot chocolate critic. So you've given
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  Speaker 2: us two samples here. Tell us about that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's election day, and so I thought you guys
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  Speaker 3: should be choosing your desserts as well as candidates.
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  Speaker 4: But you have to. In front of you, you have
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  Speaker 4: cup A and Cup B.
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  Speaker 3: And what you're going to be tasting is either hot
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  Speaker 3: cocoa or hot chocolate.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's obvious which one is. With obvious, Okay, Cup
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  Speaker 2: A is cocoa, Okay, And it tastes pretty good. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's fine. But Cup B is infinitely superior.
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  Speaker 4: Superior, it's richer.
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  Speaker 1: Well, tell us where these come from, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so this comes from Chelsea's Hot Chocolate. So this
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  Speaker 3: is a new hot chocolate. It launched about a month ago,
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  Speaker 3: and it is the most delicious hot chocolate in Utah.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: And it's not just some random person or neighbor.
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  Speaker 3: It's somebody that I've known for many, many years, and
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  Speaker 3: I've watched her travel around nations like Europe and other
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  Speaker 3: places New York, La, anywhere trying hot chocolate.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you were saying off the air, and I think
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  Speaker 1: it's probably true for most of us. Most of us
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  Speaker 1: when we think hot chocolate, it's the little pack of
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  Speaker 1: Swiss miss and that's all we've ever.
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  Speaker 4: Had is that this is not that, This is not that.
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  Speaker 1: How is this made?
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  Speaker 4: And that's the difference.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, even in a simple Google search, you can
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  Speaker 3: see the difference between hot cocoa and hot chocolate.
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  Speaker 4: So hot coco, yes, it's in the packets.
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  Speaker 3: It's where they've dried down that cocoa and it's losing
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  Speaker 3: that cocoa butter and so it's losing that smoothness to it,
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  Speaker 3: whereas like a hot chocolate is melted chocolate down and
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  Speaker 3: so you get that thicker, creamier filter, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Like is it the Polar Express where they talk about
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  Speaker 2: melting chocolate bars, Yes for the hot yes, hot chocolate.
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  Speaker 3: And I was telling them you all before we got
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  Speaker 3: on air. I don't think I had real hot chocolate
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  Speaker 3: until my adult life, and I think I was really
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  Speaker 3: missing out. Some people grew up with parents that were
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  Speaker 3: really dedicated or had a process for doing that, and we.
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  Speaker 2: Most parents don't care enough about their cakes to do that.
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  Speaker 4: And we use the terms interchangeably.
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  Speaker 3: So you go to a place and it says hot chocolate,
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  Speaker 3: but in reality, it's likely hot cocoa, and it needs
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  Speaker 3: to change, honestly, Like if someone is saying it's hot
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  Speaker 3: chocolate and it's really hot cocoa, like they really need to.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's like saying premium ice cream when it's
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  Speaker 3: not premium ice cream. Like they have to be able to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, correctly say what they're serving.
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  Speaker 2: Now, where is where is Chelsea?
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  Speaker 3: So Chelsea's Hot Chocolate can be found at every Momost Cheesecake.
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  Speaker 3: So she has three locations, one in downtown Salt Lake
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  Speaker 3: on fourth South, one in South Jordan off one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and six, and then one in Orum off of eight
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  Speaker 3: South and about State Street.
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  Speaker 2: And we've and we've had the cheesecake.
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  Speaker 4: You have the cheesecakes, and that's the little ones.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I mean you can get bigger ones too, but
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  Speaker 3: that is the best way to eat them is just
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  Speaker 3: the little grab and goes.
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  Speaker 4: But this is the that one two punch. It's cold.
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  Speaker 3: You get the cold, delicious cheesecake of Momo's. And then
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  Speaker 3: you can have Chelsea's hot Chocolate. It is the best
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  Speaker 3: date night dessert spot because you're eating and then you
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  Speaker 3: want to go somewhere a little bit later. There openly
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Now now you you brought this in this so this
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  Speaker 2: travels fairly.
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  Speaker 3: Well, well, she sent a machine with me. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: well so I I you're having it properly. Yes, you're
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  Speaker 3: having it properly, other than she usually puts some real
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  Speaker 3: whipped cream and then shaved chocolate on top. You did
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  Speaker 3: not get that. I couldn't travel with that. Well, not
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  Speaker 3: just that I'm dedicated, but not that.
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  Speaker 2: What now, what kind of a machine is it? I mean?
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  Speaker 3: So these are hot chocolate machines that you can actually
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  Speaker 3: get in the store. So they they whip up and
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  Speaker 3: they keep things melted, so it rotates it, it spins it,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So there are machines that are available to
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  Speaker 3: do that, and that is something that you know, if
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  Speaker 3: you want to try for your parties or whatnot for
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  Speaker 3: the holidays, that's a great thing. But truly I think
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  Speaker 3: the best thing is to go in and try what
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  Speaker 3: a real hot chocolate tastes like at.
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  Speaker 1: Mamas, and you can dress it up even more.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, so Malmos has all of our different cheesecake flavors.
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  Speaker 3: And that is one of the benefits of having Chelsea's
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  Speaker 3: hot chocolate in there, is because you can take any
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  Speaker 3: of those drizzles or any of those flavors that she
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  Speaker 3: does for cheesecakes and she puts it on top like.
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  Speaker 1: A salted caramel or bisc off or oh.
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  Speaker 2: Now, of course, this hot chocolate. It depends also how
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  Speaker 2: it's going to taste, on what kind of chocolate you use, yes,
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  Speaker 2: and where it comes from and right, whether it's light
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  Speaker 2: chocolate or dark chocolate or yep.
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  Speaker 3: So I gave you all the dark chocolate, which I
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  Speaker 3: think is the best. It's sixty two percent cacao, which
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  Speaker 3: if you know your percentages, that's that's high, but that's
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  Speaker 3: not too high. I usually go for about a seventy
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  Speaker 3: two percent. But in a drinking chocolate, I like it
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  Speaker 3: about sixty sixty two percent. But there are milk chocolate
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  Speaker 3: versions and that's about thirty six percent. And so that's
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  Speaker 3: like the kid friendly or the person that doesn't like
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  Speaker 3: the bitterness of chocolate.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I normally don't like to eat dark chocolate, but
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  Speaker 2: this drinking it is a different matter.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, And if there were a whipped cream
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  Speaker 4: on top of it. Oh man, yes, I'd be a
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  Speaker 4: little much for me.
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  Speaker 2: It's because it's I just drank the whole thing and
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  Speaker 2: it's really rich. I mean, yes, well it's good.
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  Speaker 4: Though, no for sure. And that's that's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: Is you go in and you can mix a match
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  Speaker 3: and so it isn't just that one thing that you're
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  Speaker 3: going to get. You can, you know, get all those
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  Speaker 3: drizzles and then you can mix it up with the
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  Speaker 3: cold on the side for the for the cheesecakes. It
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  Speaker 3: just creates that overarching beautiful dessert.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about the difference between you've got here Italian uh
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  Speaker 2: hot chocolate and Mexican hot chocolate. Talk about that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so this is more of a European style.
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  Speaker 3: So what Chelsea can say, not too thick, not too thin,
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  Speaker 3: So it is that perfect balance, whereas the Italian is
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  Speaker 3: a little bit thicker. So if you've been to an
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  Speaker 3: Italian restaurant and they serve drinking chocolate at the end,
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  Speaker 3: it is quite thick. Yeah it's delicious, but it is
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  Speaker 3: quite thick, and this is a little bit thinner than that,
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  Speaker 3: whereas on the Mexican hot chocolate side, it's usually thinner
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  Speaker 3: than European style.
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  Speaker 1: So isn't cinnamony.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, So you can buy those discs even in the
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  Speaker 3: grocery store, and you can melt them down, but there
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  Speaker 3: is that, yeah, a little bit of cinnamon. They sometimes
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  Speaker 3: will put chili in or you know, something to make
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  Speaker 3: it a little bit spicy as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, there's a lot of different readies, but I would
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  Speaker 3: say the European style that Chelsea serves here is my favorite.
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  Speaker 4: Again, not too thick, not too thin.
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  Speaker 2: And you point out that chocolate was originally I used
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  Speaker 2: for drinking, not not eating as we do now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a that's a fun fact you can pull
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  Speaker 3: out at family parties.
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  Speaker 4: Chocolate originally was for.
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  Speaker 3: Hot drinks, so it wasn't to be in a bar,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't to be eaten any other way.
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  Speaker 4: It was made this way.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what she's really trying to get back to is,
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  Speaker 3: let's make this that warm comfany drink that we have
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  Speaker 3: at family parties, and it's super delicious and high quality.
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  Speaker 2: It is really really good. Now, so is it How
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  Speaker 2: is it expensive?
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  Speaker 3: It's not too expensive for you know, an eight ounce
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  Speaker 3: cup or around that size.
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  Speaker 4: It's about five point fifty.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's it's on par, especially if you're you're talking.
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  Speaker 3: I've I went to a Utah football game and it's
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  Speaker 3: ten dollars for hot cocoa. That is so watered down. Yeah, so,
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's the thing is there's some time and place,
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  Speaker 3: but if you're out getting a dessert, five dollars for
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  Speaker 3: a cup of hot cocoa that are hot chocolate.
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  Speaker 4: That is so good.
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  Speaker 2: It's so worth it really excellent. It is actually good.
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  Speaker 4: So it's inside of Momo's Cheesecake location.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so search your locations and yeah, enjoy some and
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  Speaker 3: let me know if you try it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's so.
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  Speaker 1: Good, and how do you how do people let you know?
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  Speaker 3: So go to Donut Critic, d O n U T
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  Speaker 3: cri T. I see on Instagram and I have stories
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  Speaker 3: up so you can vote. I'm going to put up
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  Speaker 3: some voting too. All right, good, thank you, ben Hey,
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  Speaker 3: thank you all, thank you sir.
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  Speaker 2: All right