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 These next few introductions are alternate introductions to my cookie comparison/contrast essay. I tried to use many different ways to make each introduction unique. I think that they are all very different from each other but all three grab the readers attention. In my first introduction, my favorite, I gave a very interesting fact and also introduced the assignment put upon me which gave a point to the essay. My second revised introduction was my least favorite, it  is too short to grab a readers attention and doesn't have a point at all. I think my third introduction was unique because it sort of introduced the essay in a different format. It was good, but probably not good for a comparison/contrast essay.

1) The chocolate chip cookie was an accidental finding, when Ruth wakefield was baking cookies one day. She decided to keep the chocolate in chunks rather then melting it in her cookies. since then this accident has been carried on for many years, modifying her recipe to create whats said to be the best cookie on earth. Many brands take a different view on the chocolate chip cookie and modify it to make it their own. Introduced in class, we had an assignment to analyze the texture taste and smell of Chips Ahoy!, Murray sugar free, Keeblers chips deluxe, wegmans, archway farms and pepperridge farm soft batch chocolate chip cookies.

2) Many different cookies have certain characteristics that make each one of them unique. although classified under the same genre of "chocolate chip cookies" no two of them are the exact same. No chocolate chips are evenly dispersed in the exact same way and the blend of the ingredients in each cookie can never be exact.

3) During our class assignment we had to sit and analyze chocolate chip cookies, everybody had to have an open mind to the assignment in order to make it successful. Somebody who hates chocolate chip cookies had to learn to put this aside and still analyze the cookies well, although they still might have different tastes then others.

Food Paper

when I first started this paper I had to learn how to really analyze something, how to break down the real basics of the chocolate chip cookie. I struggled a little with the first draft because there was a lot of information that had to be condensed into an essay format. I also struggled a little because I did not really know how to put the feelings about the cookie into words. I enjoyed tasting the cookies because it was interesting to see how under the same classification of "chocolate chip cookies" all of the different cookie brands tasted so different and were very unique. It was sometimes frusterating to try to write down on paper what I actually though of it, describing in detail a simple cookie was challenging and frusterating. In order to write this paper I had to develop techniques such as knowing how to put in useful quotations, understanding more background knowledge of the cookie and decifering opinions.
After re reading my paper again today I realized that I established a good introduction to the paper. I thought this because it explained my definition of the chocolate chip cookie and established exactly what the paper was going to be about by saying " from the sampled brands ( the names of brands) the cookies had a very wide variety of prescence and tastes that make each one unique". this was a good way of introducing the paper but I think that I should have intoduced the assignment first before jumping into saying the sampled brands without saying how got the sampled brands or why they were sampled. That is also what my partner said about my paper, she said other than that my paper had very good description in it. I plan to indroduce more of the history of the chocolate chip rather then making the paper strictly comparing the different cookie brands and to add more details that gives the reader a better idea of exactly what everyone else and myself thought of the cookie.

Taylor Dreste

College comp- cookie compare and contrast.

            The “Chocolate chip cookie” can have so many unique characteristics that are rarely thought about.  The basis of a chocolate chip cookie remains the same, in my opinion being a delicious treat consisting of a sugary beigeish cookie base, with chocolate chunks dispersed through out the cookie. There are in fact many factors that can set apart one chocolate chip cookie from another. Whether it be the texture, size, shape, smell or taste of the cookie, no two chocolate chip cookies are the exact same. From the sampled cookie brands of Keebler’s Chips Deluxe, Nabisco’s Chips ahoy!, Murray’s sugar free cookie, Archway’s chocolate chip, Wegman’s chocolate chip and Mantauk’s soft batch chocolate chunk, the cookies have a very wide variety of presence and taste’s that make each unique.

            Packaging plays a major role to the attraction of the cookie. Cookie brands such as Chips Ahoy! And Chips Deluxe had packaging that seemed to attract a younger age group, with pictures of children on them, fun games and slogans such as “A great snack for in your lunchbox”.  These showed off more of the “cool” package rather than the delectable treat. The Murray sugar free cookies had a very bland package, the chocolate chip cookie shown on the package did not look appealing, with only a few chocolate chips in the picture. The package did not have any good design to it either; it was a simple royal blue color with a gold stripe, not very appealing to taste testers. The Wegman’s cookie had clear packaging to see the actual cookie. I thought that this was a neat idea because it gave a great sense of how appealing the real cookie looked rather

Than on paper. Archway’s Package was quite bland as well but not as much as the Murray’s, a simple picture of the cookie was well portrayed on the packaging, attracting many of the testers, but there was no good information. The Mauntak package looked the most appealing to all the testers, including myself. The picture of the cookie looked delicious, with big chocolate chunks imbedded in a rich soft warm cookie, made all of us crave one immediately.

               Texture, taste and smell are all other leading factors that set various brands of cookies apart from others. Some types of cookies smell great but taste disgusting. The chips ahoy cookies had a rough texture and smelled delicious, they were also harder than most of the other cookie brands. They also tasted in my opinion better than most of the other chocolate chip cookies. The Murray cookies had a bit of a softer texture and were also smoother, although they tasted disgusting; this was probably due to the cookies being sugar free. The Archway cookies, due to the plain package, disgusting smell also had a taste that was almost unbearable and in comparison to the disgusting taste of the Wegman’s chocolate chip cookies. The Montauk cookies were very well presented and smelled good, they had a very soft texture with big chocolate chunks. I was not very pleased with the taste though, along with many other taste testers we agreed that they tasted like vinegar and raisins. The Keebler cookies were very soft and did not taste great but were also not bad, others argued that they tasted the best but I feel they were outweighed by the chips ahoy cookies. 

            Many taste testers agreed with each other on which cookies they thought tasted good, bad or okay and which ones presented themselves best. Eric was the only one in the group that liked the taste of the sugar free cookies while others said that they tasted very bland. Grant did not like a lot of the cookies either; he and many others thought that the Archway cookies were the worst.

            In my opinion I thought that the Chips ahoy! Chocolate chip cookies were the best. They had a perfect texture, presentation, smell and taste. The Keebler chips deluxe cookies were very similar to them as they presented themselves to a younger eater. Each cookie had very unique characteristics but after all were all classified under the same category of: chocolate chip cookies.