Kate Connally wrote:

>> Oh please....have you ever PROPERLY compared Nestle's to any of the
>> gourmet chips? Nestles is the Wonder Bread of chips.
>
> First off, I don't know what you mean by "properly".
> Second off, I said I'm not willing to pay the high price
> for the "gourmet" chips. To expand, the regular chips
> (i.e. Nestle's) are expensive enough, and I don't care
> for Ghiardelli chocolate at all so I'm pretty sure I
> wouldn't even like their chips and besides they're too
> expensive. No, I haven't compared, properly or otherwise,
> any of the "gourment" chips because I'm not willing to
> pay that high a price. Nestle's chip are fine for me
> and are perfectly good for making chocolate chip cookies,
> etc. Now, if I were making fondue, for example, I would
> not use Nestle's choc. chips, I would get really good
> chocolate (at least one that *I* consider good chocolate,
> i. e. *not* Ghiardelli's). But for anything that calls
> for choc. chips I'm going to use Nestle's. There's nothing
> wrong with it.

I've always been more than happy with Nestle semi sweet chips for
baking. I doubt a more "gourmet" chip is going to make an appreciable
difference to a kid or someone just wanting a basic sweet "Toll House
Cookie"