Right . Edited to add I once went to a daylong thing for the Women ' s Guild or some such thing at a local wardhall . We attended some panels in the first part of the day , where we listened to presentations by a couple of really elderly women talk about the olden days and another where women gave mothering advice to the attending females . Then we broke for lunch and would reassemble to package coloring books for the poor children in Peru or some place . By lunch I had sat though three panels my hostess had run off with some other women of the ward to a private panel of some sort never did learn what that was about and by then I was ready to cause bodily harm for coffee to wash down the food , but of course this was LDS so , none . Not even a nice tall glass of watery iced tea to ease my pain . However , they did serve some rather niceish sandwiches and little bags of potato chips with all the roomtemperature water you could drink . BUT for dessert to my surprise remember , this was lunch they served the biggest hotfudgesundaebrownies I had ever seen . I don ' t usually eat sweets but I figured that one brownie with fudge sauce hold the ice cream was worth at least 2500 calories , and as such would have a bit of caffeine to give me a jolt so I didn ' t fall asleep . It did too , and I swear , all the other women got pretty chirpy after that too . The hotchocolate thing I saw at a nighttime Christmas party , where we all gathered at our Mormon coworker ' s house and went on a walk to see the house lights in her upscale ' hood . Back at the house was every damn kind of sweet eat known to man , plus hot cider , lemonade and yes , hot cocoa . And it wasn ' t just for the gentiles , either . People were swilling this stuff like it was good booze . Very weird .