JFG Nation, the battle between NY Pizza and Chicago Deep Dish Pizza has been done before – the arguments are always the same: “Deep dish isn’t really pizza!” “NY pizza people are snobs!” “Your pizza is just bread covered in sauce!”   “The Cubs are the best!” On and on and on…I’m bored of it. Look, I’ve had both and would crush both without hesitation.

But then a friend posed to me that NY Pizza was superior because of its superiority in the cold, day-after arena. And it got me thinking: I’ve never had cold deep dish, but maybe that’s amazing too. Maybe the extra doughiness is a plus. I have no idea.

So my question for you today, JFG Nation, is what is the better COLD pizza, day after option? Is it thin crust or deep dish? Tell me in the comments below.

Today’s review: Sam’s Club Colossal Cinnamon Roll!!

Growing up in Upstate NY, our area FINALLY got a Sam’s Club while I was in high school. It was a bonanza – it’s where I would get all of my 25 lb bags of chicken breasts. But I haven’t been to a Sam’s Club probably in eight years, and the Junk Food Gal had NEVER BEEN to one. So, when Sam’s asked me to stop by to try a new item, off we went to our nearest Club:

Junk Food Gal: “Hey, this place looks just like [redacted].” Yep, that’s why they’re competitors, darling 🙂

Sam’s Club is launching 300 new Member’s Mark items this year, including a colossal Member’s Mark cinnamon roll, which is what they wanted me to try. It’s already in clubs across the country.

The cinnamon roll can apparently feed up to 16 people and weighs THREE POUNDS.

The assistant manager Marlon who gave me the Colossal Cinnamon Roll let me know that besides the top icing, they also split the Roll in the center and ice the inside, like a layer cake. The result: SUGAR EXPLOSION.

This is me trying to casually lift this sucker and tilt the plastic pan so you can get a good view of this thing. This is also me trying to keep the monster from sliding off the pan as I tilt. This is me failing to look smooth.

The Colossal Cinnamon Roll was so thick that my knife just stuck in it. Cutting away, you could see all the lovely cinnamon folds. The profile view of the slice reveals the layer of icing on the inside too. The icing was perfect – wet enough to slide but dry/firm enough not to just melt immediately.

DO THESE TASTE GOOD? Yes, yes, and yes.

WHY OR WHY NOT? The Colossal Cinnamon Roll was a bundle of sugar exploding with pastry goodness. When you have a baked good, you worry that it’ll be too doughy with not enough flavor. Not so here – not overwhelming cinnamon flavor but a good amount that matched how much dough there was; I never got a bite that WASN’T nice and cinnamon-y.

The icing was classic cinnamon roll icing – sugary, super sweet, and a tiny bit grainy which I appreciated – you could tell this was fresh whipped and mostly sugar, not corn syrup or other shelf stabling ingredients.

The combo – really good, but honestly, this would’ve been hard to screw up. The dough was slightly sweet, slightly buttery no parts were bland. Add cinnamon and a tidal wave of sugar icing – you’ve got a complete sugar rush. This is completely dangerous to diets everywhere.

ANYTHING ELSE I SHOULD KNOW? A single critique – because the icing in the center was layered on top of open dough (not the golden crusted top of a cinnamon roll), it definitely melted/seeped into the dough beneath. Result was that the lower half was more dense and not as regular fluffy like the top half. Still tasted great – but the bottom layer was definitely heavier than the top layer.

Thanks again for letting me try the Colossal Cinnamon Roll, Sam’s Club!

PURCHASED AT: Sam’s Club.

WHERE FOUND IN STORE? Bakery section.

COST? $5.

Sincerely,

The JFG