blackforest.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE GASTRONOMIC VALUE OF GOLDILOCKS AND RED RIBBON BLACK FOREST CAKE


TWO slices of black forest cake, one bought from Goldilocks Sta Lucia (Cainta) Branch and the other from Red Ribbon Sta Lucia (Cainta) Branch, would be compared based on the following criteria.

Appearance: colour, size, presentation
Taste: icing, cake, chocolate
Cost

Findings of the said study are as follows.

APPEARANCE
Colour
Goldilocks black forest cake is a three-layered dark brown cake with a cream white icing in between. It is topped with chocolate shavings, a cherry and a slice of peach. Red Ribbon black forest cake, on the other hand, is also a three-layered dark brown cake with a cream white icing in between, though icing is creamier in color. It is topped with cherry ad chocolate shavings.
Size
Though both are three layered cakes, Goldilocks black forest cake is wider in width by a centimeter compared to the Red Ribbon black forest cake.
Presentation
Aside from the plastic container in which both cakes are packaged, the Goldilocks black forest cake is inserted into a plastic sleeve thus reducing mess.

TASTE
Icing
Goldilocks black forest icing has a relatively bland taste with oily textured as opposed to the frothy semisweet icing of Red Ribbon black forest cake.
Cake
Goldolocks black forest cake is soft and has a smooth texture. There is very little taste of rum which makes the cake almost similar to that of a chocolate cake. Red Ribbon black forest cake, on the other hand, has soft granular texture. Flavor of rum is very distinct.
Chocolate
Goldilocks used unsweetened chocolate and is relatively thicker in dimension compared to the semisweet milk cholate shavings used by Red Ribbon.

COST
Goldilocks black forest cake is cheaper at Php 56.00 per slice compared to Red Ribbon at Php 59.00 per slice.

CONCLUSION
Based from the observations made above and my personal preferences, I therefore conclude that Red Ribbon black forest cake is generally better than Goldilocks black forest cake.

9 down, 1 more to go.

FIRST semester has already been finished and I only have one more semester left until I finish college. Looking back at my performance, I could not say that I have been a good student. In fact, ever since I entered the corps and shifted to polsci, it have been very seldom that I get a grade of 1.00+. Nevertheless, I do not regret being involve in other extra curricular activities. What I only wish is that I exerted more effort in my studies. Especially now that I am planning to enter med school next year. But I won't delve on that at this moment. Sem break is too precious to be wasted being depressed. I only have two weeks, don't I?

For the duration of my aforementioned break from academics, I have planned a list of things to work on:

1. assemble emergency kit
2. bonsai
3. t-shirt printing
4. natural history
5. assemble radio
6. read "men of mathematics" by E.T. Bell
7. study calculus and quaternions
8. study planes and fluid mechanics
9. build Lueewenhoek microscope
10.glassblowing
11.Georg Cristoph Lichtenberg's "waste books"
12.concept of perfect crime (crime and punishment, oxford murders, el filibusterismo)
13.life of Ludwig Wittgenstein
14.anaesthesia (see Sherlock Holmes, Salt and zombies)
15.works of Guillermo Martinez (oxford murders)
16.PT!
17.on rats and men
18.tickler notebook
19.notes on manliness
20.60s clothing

I'm not sure if I am going to accomplish all this but hey, its worth a try.

law of survival.

DYING is not so bad. It is part of the natural process. But heck, I don't want to die yet. I don't want to believe that I am weak and that I am not fit to survive.