Junk Food Confession: I actually had a McDonald’s Cinnamon Melt on our trip. It was the morning of Space Camp, and that was the only place open we could find for breakfast. I wasn’t too hungry (TOO! MUCH! ADRENALINE!) so I just thought I’d get a pie or something. I had no idea they were a new thing when I ordered it; I just saw the sign above the cashier. Unfortunately about two seconds after I was given my change, a shout rang out from the kitchen. “WHO SOLD A CINNAMON MELT? WE DON’T KNOW HOW TO MAKE THOSE YET!” Apparently it was, like, Day One of the Cinnamon Melt and our cashier had unknowingly sold one before the kitchen was even prepared. I said I’d be more than happy to take something else, and after much back-and-forth I was provided with two(!) Cherry Pies. A little while later, my cashier appeared triumphantly at our table with a cardboard box in her hand. “I made one!” she announced. “That’s okay, really; I just ate a Cherry Pie!” I said. “No, you have to try it! They’re really good! And it’s on me.” Well… okay. It was pretty darn tasty! I don’t like dry, cakey cinnamon rolls, and this one was pretty much the opposite of that. Moist, gooey, loaded with icing… I guess that’s why it has 460 calories, huh? (Yeah, I gained like eight pounds on that trip.) If you can spare the nutritional deficit, I recommend the Cinnamon Melt. (Link courtesy of PCJM, who thinks they sound nast.)

Oh, and I tried Diet Coke Plus too. I thought it tasted exactly the same as regular Diet Coke (i.e. DOUBLE-PLUS AWESOME).