Kathleen wrote:

> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>
>> Kathleen wrote:

>>>I love Abuelita. My daughter's Spanish class was having a party and her
>>>contribution was Mexican hot chocolate. I asked my daughter if her
>>>classmates had enjoyed it and she said she thought so, given that most
>>>of them tore their cups in half to lick the dregs after they'd drained
>>>the contents.
>>
>>
>> "Abeulita" sounds like a diminutive of "grandmother". "Little
>> grandmother", if you will. If that's a name for hot chocolate, I wonder
>> if it got its name by being somehow associated with grandmothers -- as
>> in being something that grandma always made for you when you visited her.
>>
>>
> It means "Little Grandma". There's even a little old lady on the label.
> I can tell you, though, that my grandam never made hot chocolate so good.

Oh! It's a brand; I didn't know that.


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