Chocolate Chips

i've recently been testing a variety of chocolate chips, and i have come to the, not suprising, conclusions:

in the milk chocolate variety giradelli wins out by a long long shot. nestle comes in a distant second, and hershey even farther into the realm of wax. the thing about giradelli's milk chocolate chips is that, aside from being made of real chocolate and a minimal amount of wax, they are not shaped as chips should be chaped. they are larger and more disk like...sort of mini versions of like those candys i recently learned are called nonpareils.

in this little taste testing venture, i did however discover two note worthy things. first, giradelli semi-sweet chips are not an odd shape. they look just like any other chocolate chip, and do not out distance their competitors by nearly as much in this variety.

second, the rececipe for chocolate chip cookes provided by nestle and giradelli are almost identical. i dont know if i should be suprised by this, but it seems like there may be vague trademark issues at stake. though, if you're going to put the recipe on the package, i guess you may be giving up some of your rights to its exclusivity.

the process has given me ground on which to bond with my roommate and made me lament the continued absence of a mixer in my life.