So I was in Sam’s Club a week or so ago, just doing the normal Sam’s thing. You know how it goes: a sample here, a sample there, two gallons of milk for under three dollars a piece, a large jug of orange juice, that large box of Honey Nut Cheerios. Stocking up in the land of plenty.
Over by the peanut butter I realized that we were getting low on chocolate chips. And although we have Loads of Halloween candy left (how is it possible??), semi-sweet chocolate morsels Must Be In The House. Because the holidays were coming (still are) and there is baking to be done. And I still prefer a handful of semi-sweet chocolate chips to most other candy. And I often make a snack for the children’s lunches that consists of goldfish crackers, raisins and—you guessed it—chocolate chips.
But when I reached the chocolate chip aisle (and no, they don’t have a chocolate chip aisle, but bear with me here)—Gasp! The Tollhouse Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels were All Gone.
What to do?
And then I spied them: Ghirardelli. Oh ho! Can it be?? Bags and bags of Ghirardelli Finest Quality Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels in a Sam’s Club-sized bag, reasonably priced in the seven dollar range, and I with a reasonable excuse to make the purchase (after all, I do need chocolate chips and the holidays are approaching and who knows when I will make it back to Sam’s Club). I bought a bag.
I did not tear the bag open until yesterday morning, when I was preparing a snack for the children’s lunches. And of course I had to have one, just one, before breakfast.
Let me say to you now that Ghirardelli chocolate morsels—even the semi-sweet variety—are uniformly dark in color with a creamy complexion suitable for anyone of royal descent. And the Ghirardelli chocolate Is Indeed royal, if by saying “royal” I mean of the highest and most refined quality and also Expensive. And they are Larger than the Tollhouse variety, with a plumpness that is most decidedly Promising.
Let me furthermore say that the subsequent tasting of said chocolate (after one has ogled the creamy and Most Promising Exterior) Does Not Disappoint. No. For the Ghirardelli chocolate morsel has a very nearly bottomless chocolateyness to it. One morsel resting on the tongue melts in a manner most languid and pleasing, sending the most delicate tendrils of rich chocolate to all the pockets and sweet-loving recesses of the mouth.
A Ghirardelli Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsel Does Not Disappoint. And I had More Than One before breakfast.
After school yesterday the children and I did our errands. We did a little grocery shopping; we went to the library. And somewhere between school, the library and home, Emma Grace commented to me on the snack she enjoyed at school today. “Mom,” she said, “those chocolate chips aren’t the same as our usual ones.”
No, indeed.
