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Earlier this year, I wrote a negative nutritional opinion about Burger King’s Enormous Omelete Sandwich. Well, Burger King listened, and they decided that two eggs, two slices of cheese, a sausage patty and two slices of bacon on a bun was just not enough breakfast without adding a couple of slices of ham. At almost 800 calories and two days worth of saturated fat in one meal, I don’t see why they just didn’t throw in a nice galette of hashbrowns and gravy (you know, to help make it go down nice and smooth) to make it an even 1000. Silly me, I forgot…you don’t have to get this by itself, you can have a combo with a large breakfast tater tots and a 44oz Coke to wash this manly meal down with, all on your way to work/school/back to your house because you didn’t feel like cooking.

Now anyone who knows me knows for sure that 1) I am no health nut, 2) I have more than just baby fat on me, and 3) I don’t discriminate against hardly any kind of food, fast or slow. However, as I said in my post from earlier in the year, if I’m going to consume that many calories in a meal (which is a bad idea to begin with, but we all indulge ourselves in different ways…at least it’s not a crack pipe), I’m going to be 1) sitting down, 2) have a paid professional attend to my meal (or be the handiwork of a loved one or my own damn self), and 3) take the time to enjoy it. I sure as hell won’t waste it at Burger King.

Having said that (and proving the first sentence in the 2nd paragraph above), I love cinnamon rolls. I really don’t care for the outside part, though; it’s usually hard or too high a bread:flavor ratio. I bite the outside just enough to hollow out the middle where the flavor is packed in, leaving a moon-shaped carcass of a roll, shamelessly eviscerated. Chik-Fil-A released an item that was made just for me (and probably thousands of others, but I prefer to think of me first): a package of just cinnamon-roll middles. This is the cinnamon roll equivalent of muffin tops, only muffin tops are dumb and these are cool.

All this at 1:30 in the morning, as I study for a biochemistry exam tomorrow on (and I kid you not): dietary lipid metabolism (chylomicrons, [VL,L,H]DLs; cholesterol, fatty acid and triglyceride synthesis), gluconeogenesis, glycogenolysis/glycogenesis, hormonal regulation/effects in the fed/starved state, etc. I think, just writing about all this, “Just how much bile salts, CCK, lipases, and insulin would have to be mobilized to take care of all the above if I were to eat it?” Ha!