Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/31/2016
 Tonight, is Halloween night, that time when kids (and adults)
dress up and go trick-or-treating. It is a happy time that kids look forward to
all month. I recall being a kid going trick-or-treating and later in life
bringing my kids around. Growing up in New York and later in Connecticut and
Chicago I recall going trick-or-treating in all kinds of weather-warm, cold,
snow, rain and yes, even fog, dense fog at that. I recall stopping along the
way at my friend’s houses where they would give the kids flavored hot
chocolate. It was heart-warming for me and my friends to see the little kids
wrap their hands around the cup of flavored hot chocolate to try and get warm particularly
on a cold raw, snowy or rainy night.
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/28/2016
 Ingredients
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1-1.97
Ounce Envelope-Sippity Chocolate Raspberry hot cocoa mix
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8
Ounces Milk
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1
Teaspoon Raspberry Syrup
Preparation
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Heat
8 ounces’ milk in microwave.
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Stir
in 1-1.97-ounce envelope of Sippity Chocolate Raspberry hot cocoa mix until
smooth.
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Add
1 tablespoon of raspberry syrup-stir until smooth.
Pour
into your favorite glass or mug and enjoy!
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/26/2016
 “Hi honey,” I said to my wife, Gloria when I called her this
afternoon. “My parents called and their coming for the weekend.”
“Great, Larry. I hope things will be better than the last
visit. Remember how you and your father argued over politics until he and your
Mom left?”
“How can I ever forget that. I was horrible. Listen, I
promise not to talk about politics ever again with my family.”
“Well that would be nice for a change. Why don’t I get some
Sippity chocolate raspberry hot chocolate for the weekend? I know your Mom and
Dad love that stuff.”
“That would be great, Gloria. My parents would appreciate
that.”
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/25/2016
Extraordinary is a word that I rarely use because it is
reserved for events or accomplishments that so out of the ordinary that they,
in and of themselves, are extraordinary. For example, a student who gets
straight A’s in college is extraordinary relative to their peers. An athlete
that sets a world record is extraordinary, or at least until his record is
broken. The terror attack on the World Trade Center is an extraordinary event.
You get the picture.
So is the case with Kemosabe Lite sugar free coffee. Only
once in a generation does a coffee that contains less than 1 gram of sugar with
41 calories deserve to be called extraordinary. Such is the case with Kemosabe
sugar free coffee. Americans have fallen in love with the taste Kemosabe sugar
free coffee has to offer from its six wonderful flavors-mocha, chocolate
cinnamon, chocolate hazelnut, chocolate irish cream, crème butterscotch and
french vanilla.
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/24/2016
“Tonight expect cool skies and hot chocolate,” the weatherman
announced on the news station I was watching on my television as I was putting
the lid on the pot of chicken noodle soap I just finished making. “We should
have our first frost of the season tonight,” he added. “Look for temps to drop
to the low to mid twenties overnight, so bring in the plants and break out the
Sippity hot chocolate.”
“Humm, hot chocolate. That sounds delicious,” Carol, the news
anchor injected. “I love this time of year. Pumpkin picking, hayrides and the
feeling of cradling a cup of chocolate cinnamon hot chocolate in my hands.”
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/22/2016
 “You know Judy, Robert Sled will be here in two days to
promote his new book, Murder At 10,
Details at 11, and we haven’t decided on the type of coffee to serve
the large crowd that is expected to be here at the book signing,” I stated to
my assistant store manager at the Bookworm bookstore on Tremont Street in downtown
St. Louis. “We haven’t even determined how much coffee to buy,” I added,
referring to the fact that we were expecting our largest book signing crowd
ever since Robert Sled is the leading author of murder mystery novels in
America.
For the next fifteen minutes Judy and I discussed various
types of coffee and brands that might be appropriate at the book signing. “I
think we then agree, Judy,” I stated referring the type of coffee we were going
to have at the book signing. “We just need to go now and buy it.”
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/21/2016
 When you think of the Fall you conjure up memories of when
you were growing up, trick-or-treating, Indian pageants, rolling in leaves and
enjoying flavored hot chocolate. As you grew older you took your girlfriend for
walks through the forest, drives to see the covered-bridges set against autumn’s
spectacular foliage, attended various October Fests, street fairs and football games.
Most likely each of these events ended with you holding a nice warm container
of flavored hot chocolate while sitting near a fireplace at a roadside inn.
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/20/2016
Ingredients
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1-1.97
Ounce Envelope-Sippity Chocolate Marshmallow hot cocoa mix
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2
Tablespoons Smooth Creamy Peanut Butter
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Small
Sized Marshmallows
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Crumbled
Peanut Butter Cups
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/19/2016
 Like most people in the morning, immediately after I wake up
I need my coffee, not want my coffee, but need my coffee. Barely having enough
energy to get up and get out of bed I always seem to find my way to the
kitchen-it’s like the coffee is a magnet that just draws me to it in the
kitchen from my second story bedroom. No matter how weak and frail, or tired I
am, my mocha flavored coffee always seems to bring me to it.
Once in the kitchen I flip the light switch and my day officially
begins. Like a robot, the first thing I do is reach for the box of Kemosabe
mocha flavored coffee and take out one single serve envelope. I then heat up a
cup of water in the microwave for 90 seconds. While I am waiting for the
contents of the cup of water to get hot I check my voice mail and messages that
have come in overnight. Admittingly, the sound of the beeping microwave sends a
message to my brain that mocha flavored coffee is on its way. A minute later I’m
sitting at my kitchen table sipping my cup of mocha flavored coffee and
replying to the voice messages and e-mails. Life as a Chief Financial Officer
of a fortune 100 company is hard, very time demanding.
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/18/2016
 “Janice, do you know of any diet hot chocolate that tastes
good?” I asked my workout partner after we had just completed our 45-minute
cycling class. “I love hot chocolate, particularly flavored hot chocolate, but
I can’t seem to find any diet hot chocolate that tastes good.”
“Actually, I do, Toni. My husband also loves hot chocolate, particularly
now that the weather is getting cooler. However, once he found out that he had
diabetes his diet hot chocolate choices became limited, and his attitude
changed for the worst, if you know what I’m saying. That was until one of his
work colleagues introduced him to Sippity Lite hot cocoa mix.”
“Tell me about this Sippity Lite hot cocoa mix.”
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/17/2016
 “Hi Jackie,” I said to my real estate broker as my husband,
Jeff, and I entered The William McFarland Real Estate office on Main Street
around 9 AM. “I can’t wait to show Jeff a few of the houses we picked out,” I
stated as I extended my hand towards Jackie. “I’ know he’ll just love them.”
“Hey Lynda, would you and Jeff like some coffee before we
begin?”
“That would be great Jackie,” I replied.
“Do you have any decaf?” Jeff asked. “Caffeine drives me up
the wall,” he then stated.
“Of course. As a matter of fact, Jeff, we have the best
decaf coffee I think I ever tasted. It’s Kemosabe flavored decaf coffee and it
comes in six delicious flavors-mocha, chocolate cinnamon, chocolate hazelnut,
french vanilla, chocolate irish cream and my favorite, crème butterscotch.”
“Well then, Jackie, let’s go with your favorite, crème butterscotch.”
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/15/2016
 “Right then, I had better get
started with my Saturday morning chores,” I thought to myself as I took the
last sip of my Kemosabe French vanilla gourmet coffee. A few minutes later,
while sorting the family wash between whites and colored clothes I called out
to my husband, Bill, who had already “anchored” himself in his favorite
recliner in the family room, “What are you doing today?”
“There’s a good football game on
at eleven that I want to watch,” he yelled back.
Picking up the laundry basket of
white clothes I started to make my way towards the laundry room, first passing Becky’s
room where she was sitting in front of her computer scrolling the Face book
page of a young boy she told me she “liked” at middle school with one hand,
while holding her cell phone with the other talking to her best friend, Carly. Next
I passed my seven year olds room-Kyle-where he and his 4 year old sister, Carolyn,
were playing a video game each focused intently on the TV screen and moving
their fingers on the control panel as quickly as possible. Just as I opened the
door to the washing machine I experienced a flashback to my childhood when I
went apple picking with my family. After pausing for a moment to re-live the experience,
and taking inventory of my family’s current activities, I loudly announced, “Be
ready in an hour everyone! We’re going apple picking today.”
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/14/2016
 Five years ago I graduated from Bethany College, a small
liberal arts college nestled in the foothills of the Allegheny mountains in the
northern panhandle of West Virginia about thirty miles from Wheeling, West Virginia.
This Saturday is homecoming, and has been the case in each of the past five
years, my college buddies and I re-unite for the football game, this year
against Carnegie Mellon.
“Hey Jackie, what are you bringing to the tail-gating party
on Saturday?” Troy, my old roommate asked.
“Well, because they are forecasting a rather gloomy day, light
rain with a temperature in the high forty’s, I thought I would bring a twenty-five
box of Kemosabe single serve coffee packets, so that we can keep warm.”
“You’re getting soft on me, Jackie,” Troy replied. “I’ve
arranged for two kegs of beer.”
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/12/2016
 Being a single Mom requires a lot of work, which gets
compounded in the fall when I must tend to the yard cleanup chores. Last
Saturday I had promised my two boys, Troy-age 8 and Ryan-age 6 that I would
take them to the pumpkin patch in the afternoon after I had worked in the
garden in the morning removing the summer annuals and replacing them with the
fall mums. Well overnight on Friday a cold front from Canada entered Albany and
I awoke to a frosty 29 degrees. Needless to say after I had worked in the
garden from 8 AM to noon my little hands were frozen.
“We made you a surprise,” Troy called out when I entered the
mud room to remove my boots. Haven knows what this could be I thought to myself
after all my two young boys have offer surprises in the past that included
marking up the family room walls on Mother’s Day with Happy Mother’s Day-Mom
greetings and “warming up” their pet hamster, Sam, in the microwave, to name
just a few.
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/11/2016
 “Lori, can you come in for a few minutes,” my boss, Mr.
Andersen, called out to me from his office.
“Sure thing, Mr. Andersen. Just give me a minute to finish
posting these last few journal entries and I’ll be right in.” Five minutes
later I walked into Mr. Andersen’s office holding in one hand a note pad and in
the other a half full container of Kemosabe chocolate cinnamon instant coffee. “What’s
up?” I politely asked as I took my seat on the opposite side of his desk and
placed my container of instant coffee on the edge of his desk.
“Wow! That coffee smells delicious,” he stated. “What kind
is it?”
“It’s Kemosabe chocolate cinnamon instant coffee.”
“Next time you go downstairs to the coffee shop can you get
me a container?”
“Sure.”
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/10/2016
 Every year for the past 27 years I
have participated in the Columbus Day parade as part of the 1776 American Revolutionary
marching band to the many well-wishers who lined Main Street of Bethel,
Connecticut. Unlike past years when the weather was sunny and pleasant, this
morning when I left my house it was 27 degrees with frost covering the mums and
grass.
Wynn, our band leader, instructed
us at Friday’s rehearsal to meet promptly at 8 AM in front of Frank’s service
station on Troutman Street, one block south of the starting route. Always punctual,
I arrived twenty-five minutes early and met up with many of the band members
who were standing around chatting.
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/9/2016
 “Hi Don,” I said to the father of the high school football
teams quarterback as I approached him to take my along the top back railing of
the stands.
“Hi Bobby,” he replied. “Tonight’s game should be one of the
better games of the season,” he replied referring to the fact that we were
playing a team with a 4-1 record and was leading the conference in offense.
“Yeah, I’m looking forward to this game. So how’s life
treating you?”
“Actually, not so good,” he replied in a soft dejected tone.
“What’s the matter?”
“My company announced a move to Cleveland today and there is
no way my wife and kids will what to move to Cleveland. It’s not that I have
anything against Cleveland, it’s just that my wife and kids are established
here in Greenwich.”
“I understand, Don. Perhaps I can help. I know a lot of
executives and executive recruiters.”
“That would be great. Say, Bobby why don’t I run to the
concession stand and get us two containers of coffee, then when I come back we
can watch the game and you can tell me about who you know.”
“That sounds like a plan to me, Don.”
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/8/2016
Ingredients
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1-2.60 Ounce Envelope-Sippity Pumpkin Spice hot cocoa mix
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8 Ounces Milk
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Pumpkin Pie Spice
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Whipped Cream
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Chocolate Syrup
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/5/2016
 Today is my first day of living in the Kappa Kappa Gamma
sorority house on the University of Iowa campus and I must admit I did not know
what to expect. Based on what everyone has told me in high school and the image
Hollywood creates of sorority houses I have a perception that only rich girls
live in the sorority houses, which could be a problem for me coming from a
middle income family in Mt. Kisco, New York.
“What kind of coffee is this?” my junior roommate Janice
asked after she had taken a sip from the cup of diet coffee I had just
microwaved in our room. “You’ve got to be kidding me, Claudia,” she added with disgust
in her voice. “This is perhaps the worst coffee I ever had!”
“I’m sorry if you don’t like it. I’ve been making this diet
coffee for the past year while I was a senior in high school and I enjoy it.”
“Well, Claudia, you’re not in Kansas anymore,” she sarcastically
replied referring to the fact that I was now in college and a Kappa Kappa Gamma
member. “It’s time you took your coffee up a notch,” she added.
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/4/2016
 How quickly the seasons changes from summer to fall. Think
about it for a minute. It’s Labor Day and the summer sun still offers beach
days. Thirty days later the chill of the autumn air descents creating frost on the
pumpkins, sweaters to be worn, leaves to change and pumpkin spice hot cocoa mix
to be purchased. I’ve always enjoyed the early autumn-sunny, glorious dry days
and cool, chilling nights-great for sleeping with the windows open and sitting
on your porch enjoying pumpkin spice hot chocolate.
“Sam, I’ll be on the porch writing tomorrow’s blog” I said
to my wife, Samantha after we had just finished eating dinner. “I thought the
cool, dry autumn air would motive me to write,” I added, referring to the 47-degree
weather.
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/3/2016
 Being the mother of four children ranging in age from six to
seventeen, mornings around my house during the school year are full of surprises.
There are fights for the bathroom, arguments over what clothes to wear, or what
clothes not to wear-in the case of my 17-year-old daughter, forgotten lunches,
missed buses and unforeseen accidents, as was the case this morning.
I usually start my day off by getting up about 45 minutes ahead
of the kids, taking a shower, getting dressed and preparing myself a cup of my
favorite coffee, Kemosabe chocolate cinnamon caffeine free coffee. When the
kids were little I used to drink caffeine coffee, however now that they have
grown and require more of my time and attention in the morning I drink Kemosabe
caffeine free coffee. Not only does it taste great, but it eliminates any
possibility of morning jitters that is caused by drinking caffeine coffee, and
heaven knows I need all the calmness I can get in the morning readying this
family for school, particularly this morning when I had an accident.
Posted by Southwest Beverages on 10/2/2016
Recipe Makes 24 Pumpkin Spice Cup
Cakes Ingredients-Cupcakes 1-2.60 Ounce single serve envelope of Sippity Pumpkin Spice flavored
hot cocoa mix 1-1/2 Cups Packed Light Brown Sugar 2 Cups Granulated Sugar 3 Cups all-purpose flour 1/2 Teaspoons Baking Powder 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda 1 Teaspoon Salt 1 Cup Unsalted Butter 1/8 Teaspoon Nutmeg 2 Teaspoons Cinnamon 4 Large Eggs 1-15 Oz. Can Pumpkin Puree Cupcake Tin Ingredients-Frosting 1-8 Oz. Package Cream Cheese, softened 1 Stick Butter, softened ½ Teaspoon Vanilla ½ Teaspoon Cinnamon 2 Cups Powdered Sugar Chopped Walnut Chopped Banana
Pumpkin Spice Sauce
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