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...with chocolate chip cookies, frozen yogurt, oversize muffins and all the other sweet and faddish snacks? Then you might consider cinnamon rolls, perhaps the ultimate in sugary binges. Now taking defenseless nibblers by storm in the shopping malls of the Midwest, South and Far West, these huge pinwheels of thick dough enfold gluey cinnamon, butter (or one of the more or less convincing substitutes) and enough sugar to create a sticky, candied mass. Measuring from two to five inches in both height and diameter and weighing in at about half a pound each, the buns suggest great spiraled coliseums...
Kansas City is the center of the sticky craze, and the pioneer there is the T.J. Cinnamons Bakery, opened in the Ward Parkway Shopping Center in January 1985. T.J.'s workers shaped the ball of dough (called by some a brain) into buns and baked them nine to a pan in full view of the public. The proud creators were Ted and Joyce (thereby the initials T.J.) Rice, he a television cameraman and she an elementary-school teacher. After tireless testings of their recipe on friends, they arrived at the right formula. "I thought it should have a high center...
...They've been pretty well received for the most part, especially the cinnamon-apple crispitos," says David M. Lentini, assistant manager of Dunster and Mather dining halls...
Crispitos, which are tortillas filled with either apple chunks and cinnamon, a chicken and cheese mixture or chili, are offered with sour cream at the salad bar. The skincredibles, which are sold commercially as potato skins, are topped with either beef, cheese or cheese and broccoli sauce. Both crispitos and skincredibles can be fried or baked depending on the oven space and labor allotments of the different kitchens...
Waldorf estimated that 80 percent of the smokers she encounters want to quit, but have trouble finding the initiative. "People are afraid of gaining weight when they quit smoking," said Waldorf, so students in dining halls yesterday counseled smokers to fight the urge to smoke by substituting cinnamon sticks, chewing gum and low-calorie snacks like pumpkin seeds...