in my paper and take notes on all of the different types. In order to prepare for this paper I also had to do some research about chocolate. I looked up the orgins of chocolate, a few statistics on chocolate and some of the definitions of chocolate. Once I had all of this information I could start writing my first draft.
At first, I didn't exactly know what I should write about. I had a pretty hard time starting, and also continuing. It wasn't like once I started writing that it started to flow. That wasn't the case at all. The easiest part was the introduction and the conclusion when I was writing my opinion about the chocolates and how they all tasted the same to me. It was not only the easiest part of the essay, but also the part I enjoyed the most. Writing an essay about my experience is what I do best. I had the chance to taste all of the different types of chocolate and differentiating between all of them. Also, the introduction of my paper was most of the research that I found about chocolate and composing all of that into a paragraph. The body part of the essay was just frustrating to write because I had to find the best way to compare all the different types of chocolate. I ended up comparing them and contrasting them by using point by point I think that I had such a hard time writing this paper because it wasn't the usual high school level type of paper. I never had to critic food like I did in this paper. I have never had compare and contrast anything before let alone chocolate bars which to me pretty much tasted the same. The type of chocolate bars didn't made a difference to me at all. Chocolate is chocolate!
When reading over my draft the things that I liked the most was the facts that were in my introduction. I think that I can add a few more facts and clean up the organization a little bit to make my paper a little stronger. When my partner for the peer editing looked over my paper she told me that I could probably make my introduction a little bit longer with a few more little facts about chocolate in general. I agree that I could make my paper a little bit stronger with adding facts about how chocolate was made or a few more facts about where it came from. Also my partner helped me pick the title that I will use and she picked Sweet Silky and Smooth because that is one of the ones that you can't exactly tell that it was chocolate.
I plan to revise this paper by adding a few more facts into my introduction about how chocolate was made. I also am planning on making the body a little strong by adding more details into each of the point by points. I think that in the body paragraphs I could describe each of the chocolates a little more with how they looked, tasted, and smelled. I feel that with most of my body paragraphs I didn't add much detail at all. I just wrote one sentence about all of them and that was it. I need to strengthen each of the body paragraphs.
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 or gold foil on the inside. These draw a person in to buying a certain type of 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.
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 they taste. You could tell the difference in the Dove with it being dark chocolate. It was much more rich and sweet. I will give the chocolate produces 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. With the tastes of the chocolate, they melted in your mouth, but with the regular Hershey and the Symphony Hershey chocolate kind of suck on the inside of my mouth. It didn’t just melt like all of the other chocolates.
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.
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