“…Preferring hot chocolate the guest perhaps goes to the other end of the table and asks for a cup of chocolate. The table hostess at the end also says “Certainly,” and pours out the chocolate. If she is surrounded with people, she smiles as she hands it out, and that is all. But if she is unoccupied and her momentary “guest of courtesy” is alone, it is merest good manners on her part to make a few pleasant remarks. Very likely when asked for chocolate she says: ‘How nice of you! I have been feeling very neglected at my end. Everyone seems to prefer tea.’ Whereupon the guest ventures that people are afraid of chocolate because it is so fattening or so hot.”

-Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home, by Emily Post (1922)

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