On 13/02/2011 12:08 PM, Damaeus wrote:

>>
>> If you have to be so damned anal about your chocolate chips why not just
>> get a knife and cut htem into halves or smeller?
>
> Why don't I just start a latch-hook project, knit a pair of socks or maybe
> mow the lawn with a pair of scissors?
>
> I'm not being anal about the chocolate chips. I'm being anal about people
> misunderstanding what's going on here. I provided a little background
> story about how I ended up with chocolate chips I don't want, and now
> everybody is being judgmental toward me, as if I should be happy to have
> chocolate chips at all.



You could have given the chips back to your friend. I don't think that
large chips are going to make much of a difference to the cookies....
for a normal person. If you think they are too big you can cut them into
half or quarters or put them in a blender..... but you don't want to.





They act as if the chocolate chips were a special
> gift to me and that I'm unappreciative of my friend's generosity. That is
> nothing like what this is about. *HE* got the wrong chips for *HIS*
> cookies. I used what was needed and we had a couple of bags left over.
> Neither he nor I like big, fat chocolate chips. I don't want to cut them
> into little pieces with a knife when I can more easily go to the store and
> get the teeny-tiny chocolate chips. I will turn the big chocolate chips
> into something else.