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“Humble” pie…., Joelle, not “real” pie 🥧 or π (3.14159), or…
…okay the hot chocolate works, w/o whip.  Trying to keep a waistline that I don’t need Euclidean geometry to…. ah, nevermind.
Bring on the spandex….if the hot choc has whipped cream, might as well tower up that peak of frothy white sugar like the Himalayas.

Speaking of Hot chocolate… 🤔
“They” [don’t ask me who] say the cocoa plant was first discovered by the Olmec tribe in Latin America.
They got their first taste of it and someone said, “Olmec goodness, this tastes sooo good!” so henceforth they were called the Olmec tribe.  Then the sneaky group of this other tribe came into their fields and stole some of their cacao plants, and the Olmec tribe took them to chieftain court to decide who owned the plants.  The sneaky tribe bribed the judge and were allowed to take possession of the pilfered cacoa plants, and to rub it in, they named themselves the “Mayans”, saying these plants are not “Youran”, they are “Mayan”!  So they Mayans decided to celebrate and they broke out their George Foreman grill, that they predicted would be one day invented using their special calendar, and began to roast the cocoa beans and poured them into pots.  A lot of pots. There was this guy there named Chakka, and he kept asking how many more pots they needed before they could eat the grilled cacoa beans.  The chef Mayan, Boyadee, threatened him with his barbeque tongs and finally screamed “Chakk, a lot”!  When that shout was as good as a dinner bell to the hungry Mayans who had been setting around watch Hoopula invent the game of “foot” ball while standing too long over an ant bed.
They all were delighted to try this new concoction called their chef called “Chakk a lot!!”
Well another tribe got wind of the cooking “Chakk a lot” and their chief name “Az” had learned how the Mayans had cheated and paid off the chief court, so he told his followers to round up all of the pots with the cooked cacoa beans and water.  He said, “Az tec these with us!”
So when the rest of the tribe came, after Az and his followers left, and said where is the cooked “Chakk a lot”?  They told them “Aztec” it with him.  And the mad Mayans called the chief all sorts of names I cannot repeat here, but the one phrase that stuck was “Aztec” our “Chakk a lot”!
And there is the secret history of “hot Chakk a lot….[ahem]…Hot chocolate”.

Since Jared is a history major, I figured he might appreciate the quasi-legendary, “facts” that led to the naming of the southern tribes and the subsequent discovery of an alternative drink to coffee.