Three Chocolate Starters

Looking at the three questions that was asked of me, I could answer yes to two out of the three.  I felt that i made the promise, even through it was at the end of the second paragraph, but i didn't deliver on it as well as i though i could have.  I ended up going back and adding a little bit more detail to my delivery before I could move on to my next step.

Chocolate, chocolate, and more Chocolate

            Milk chocolate was invented in 1901 by Daniel Peter.  Originally he called milk chocolate “Gala” which is Greek for “from the milk.”  His original formula was the first successful milk chocolate made in the entire world.  Today an average American will eat 10 to 12 pounds of chocolate each year, which is 4.5 kilograms.

            In class, we read an essay called “No Wonder They Call me a Bitch” by Anne Hodgeman.  She is a food critic for Eating Well magazine.  Her essay was about her trying a bunch of different types of dog foods.  After reading this essay, our teacher decided to have us write a food critique for some type of food.  We made a list of foods that we could test and then we split up into groups and each group received chocolate chip cookies, chocolate, or potato chips.  My group received chocolate.

            There are many different definitions of Chocolate which includes…

1. A preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.

2. A beverage made by dissolving such a preparation in milk or water, served hot or cold: a cup of hot chocolate.

3. Candy made from such a preparation.

4. An individual piece of this candy.

5. Any syrup or flavoring made from this preparation or artificially imitating its flavor.

            Chocolate comes in many different types.  It can come in a bar, it can come with something in the middle of it, it can come in a liquid, but for are taste testing, we used chocolate in the form of bars.  Some of the different types that we tried were Dove, Godiva, Hershey, Symphony Hershey, and Lindt.  Most of them were milk chocolate, except for the dove which was dark chocolate with roasted almonds.

            Before we ate them, we looked at the packaging.  Each of the packaging was different, but they all had a little in common.  They all used rich colors on the packaging and many use silver wrapping of the actual chocolate on the inside of the main wrapping.  Godiva used gold silver wrapping.  These different colors draw you into looking at the wrapping and then buying the chocolate.    .  Not only the colors but the words on the package also draw you into buying the chocolate. Fancy fonts and words on packages like “creamy” and “silky smooth draw you into the chocolate.  Descriptions on the back describing how the chocolate with taste in your mouth lures you into the chocolate bar too.

            Not only did we look at the packaging, but also what the candy bar looked like itself.  Each bar had sections with which you can break so you don’t have to eat the whole bar.  On most of the chocolate bars there was the name brand engraved into the chocolate itself.  Godiva has a picture engraved into the chocolate of a horse.  This also drew you into what type of chocolate to buy.

            When finally tasting the different types of chocolate, they all smelled pretty sweet.  It wasn’t the smell that differentiated the different typed of chocolate, but it was there taste.  You could tell the difference in the Dove with it being dark chocolate.  It was much more rich and sweet.  The dove also had to crunch of the almonds that added a little bit something different to the chocolate that was away from the norm of the milk chocolate.  I will give the chocolate producers props for how creamy they make there chocolate, but you can tell the quality of the chocolates.  Dove, Godiva, and Lindt are the better brands of chocolate, which leads to them being a little bit creamier and sweet.  With Lindt, you can tell the sweetness after it melts in your mouth.  With Hershey and Symphony Hershey Chocolate you could tell the quality just wasn’t as great..  They were still pretty creamy, buy they didn’t melt in your mouth like all of the other chocolates.  They stuck to the insides of your mouth and were a little drier.  The more expensive candy bars had a high quality of chocolate that stood out.

            With doing this taste test of chocolate, it was some times hard to tell that it was different types of chocolate.  Chocolate tastes like chocolate.  They all have the same flavor to me.  There are only slim differences.  If I was to recommend chocolate to someone I would say that Godiva, Dove, and Lindt are better quality chocolate, but Hershey chocolates still are okay in taste if you are looking for a cheaper type of chocolate.  Anyone who loves chocolate will love any of the types of chocolate that has been mentioned.

The first introduction that I wrote consisted of two paragraphs.  The first paragraph had to do with facts about chocolate and who invented it.  Then it talks about the article "No Wonder they Call me a Bitch" and also about the assignment at hand.  The techniques that I used in my first introduction were to add statistics and facts.  I thought that this would add a little bit of background about the subject of the paper which is chocolate.


Milk chocolate was invented in 1901 by Daniel Peter.  Originally he called milk chocolate “Gala” which is Greek


 for “from the milk.”  His original formula was the first successful milk chocolate made in the entire world.  Today


an average American will eat 10 to 12 pounds of chocolate each year, which is 4.5 kilograms.

            In class, we read an essay called “No Wonder They Call me a Bitch” by Anne Hodgeman.  She is a food critic for Eating Well magazine.  Her essay was about her trying a bunch of different types of dog foods.  After reading this essay, our teacher decided to have us write a food critique for some type of food.  We made a list of foods that we could test and then we split up into groups and each group received chocolate chip cookies, chocolate, or potato chips.  My group received chocolate.

For a different introduction technique, I can use an anecdote about my childhood and with eating chocolate.  That will make it so it is a little bit of a different introduction, and not jump straight into the point.  With this I would keep the same second paragraph which explained why we were writing an essay on this topic.

Growing up as a little child, i remember every once in a while I would get a piece of chocolate.  My family and I would eat chocolate on all different occasions.  We would have Hershey chocolate on our sh'mores and every once in a while my sister and I would just steal a piece to eat plain.  I also remember when I would go and celebrate Christmas at my grampa's house and they could have these chocolate Santas on all of the plate.  Chocolate was always apart of my life at some point or another.

Another introduction technique that I might use for this paper is open ended questions for a good part of the essay.  Starting with that and then getting into what the assignment at hand is would be a pretty good way to start a paper.

What was your favorite type of candy when you were younger? Was it chocolate? If yes, do you remember always eating chocolate or have a bunch of special occasions of when you did?  Chocolate as a sweet that each person has had at least at some point in their lives.  There are tons and tons of different kinds.  I was in a group that was assigned to taste test and  critiqued 5 different types of chocolate.  we modeled this assignment after an essay called "No Wonder they Call me a Bitch" where a food critic tasted and critiqued a bunch of different dog foods.  With this assignment, we had to compare and contrast a bunch of different types of foods.

The third introduction technique I  might use is starting a paragraph with a quote about chocolate.  this will allow me to get the paper rolling a little bit before I get straight to the promise that I am making.\

"Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power. It is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits." Chocolate is a sweet that everybody loves.  It comes in so many different forms whether in liquid or sold.  With both being so delicious, I was assigned to try 5 different type of chocolate which were all extremely delicious.  After tasting all of these chocolates I noticed the differences between the different types of chocolate.