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Published on Thursday, April 24, 2008
By JAMMIE SALAGUBANG
ON THE DASHBOARD: Warm cinnamon roll at Jack in the Box.
THE SPECS: Pastry covered in cinnamon and drizzled with icing. It's medium palm-sized, or big enough for about four or five bites.
WHAT'S THE CONCEPT? Providing people with yet another way to get their sugar fix. Bonus: You can rationalize about getting one so early in the morning because it's sort of breakfasty. Get it with that Jack's Bold Roast Coffee they're pushing with it and voila - unstoppable!
DOES IT DELIVER? It's called the warm cinnamon roll, and it indeed lives up to the "warm" part of its name.
As for the "roll," well it's really a conglomeration of pastry poofs, which, oddly for the amount of syrupy sweetness and icing it resides in, is a bit tough and dry.
The cinnamon seems to be in an identity crisis. It tastes and looks like gritty sugar that's gotten a tan. This may be partly the fault of the icing that's been liberally drizzled over the "roll
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