Today I would like to thank God for coming up with the idea of the cocoa bean and sugar cane. I am also thankful to the folks who figured out how to combine these basic natural phenomena with other elements to create chocolate.
I want to thank the person with the foresight to not simply use chocolate as an ingredient in a cookie, but to maintain the integrity of the chocolate within the cookie by including it as individual autonomous chips.
I especially want to thank the person who first eschewed the baking of chocolate chip cookie dough into a conventional cookie, and instead added the dough to ice cream, which is an otherwise competent stand-alone dessert. This brilliant advancement not only resulted in a dessert greater than the sum of its parts, but I believe also greatly reduced any unfortunate enduring social stigma associated with eating cookie dough.
I had assumed that with advent of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, mankind had reached the point of diminishing returns on dessert. We created chocolate, added chips of the chocolate to cookies, and then added blobs of the cookie dough to ice cream. To that staggering achievement could there possibly be added yet another layer of goodness, and if theoretically possible, would we even have the wherewithal to try? I was skeptical.
And then I saw footage of the first moon landing. If we could put a man on the moon…