{"id":65133,"date":"2026-08-19T01:23:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/drankengids\/chocomel\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T01:23:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:23:56","slug":"chocomel","status":"publish","type":"drink","link":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/drankengids\/chocomel\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch hot chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot chocolate with whipped cream, a Dutch winter drink with a fixed place on every menu.<\/p>\n<h2>With or without<\/h2>\n<p>The question is always: with cream. The correct answer is yes, and it usually costs fifty cents more.<\/p>\n<h2>Chocomel as a generic<\/h2>\n<p>The brand is so dominant that people call any hot chocolate by its name. In caf\u00e9s you order chocomel and get whatever they have.<\/p>\n<h2>Aniseed milk<\/h2>\n<p>Hot milk with aniseed cubes, older than hot chocolate and still around. For children and for colds, with the cubes in every supermarket.<\/p>\n<h2>At the ice rink<\/h2>\n<p>Koek en zopie is the stall by the natural ice: hot chocolate, pea soup and hot sausage. Nobody uses the word outside that context.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to find it<\/h2>\n<p>Caf\u00e9s, lunchrooms, snack bars and beach pavilions, all year but mostly in winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot chocolate with whipped cream, a Dutch winter drink with a fixed place on every menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false},"drink-type":[],"pairing":[],"class_list":["post-65133","drink","type-drink","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/drink\/65133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/drink"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/drink"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"drink-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/drink-type?post=65133"},{"taxonomy":"pairing","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pairing?post=65133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}