To be clear, these are not the top four chocolate categories in terms of containing the top four chocolates of quality. No, these are the top four highly-generalized chocolate categories in that they do the best job in describing or categorizing the quality of certain chocolate and thus are the best in helping you quickly evaluate chocolate, without going through the usual unnecessary rigmarole of taking a long and expensive chocolatier class that could drain your life savings and cause you to be unable to afford any chocolate, other than possibly the lowly stuff from the 4th highly-generalized chocolate category below:

Great Chocolate. This is the stuff that has gone through the chocolatier process as described above.

1. High-cocoa chocolate. This is stuff that may have not had such a sophisticated chocolatiering process, but makes up for it with a high-cocoa percentage.

2. Hershey’s Chocolate

3. Cheap, sugary, low-cocoa content “chocolate” by large companies that are not educating kids at the Milton Hershey School and thus do not invite you to help the children by eating sweets.

4. Cheap, sugary, low-cocoa content “chocolate” by large companies that are not educating kids at the Milton Hershey School and thus do not invite you to help the children by eating sweets.