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" It&amp;#039;s sort of incredible to me what symbols of wanton excess doughnuts have become; what totems of over-indulgence and fat-kid behavior. They were once fed to soldiers as a health food during World War II, after all. I&amp;#039;m not quite sure when things went off the rails in terms of public perception, although I think Homer Simpson had something to do with it. Anyway, when Dunkin&amp;#039; Donuts said it was taking a &amp;quot;glazed donut breakfast sandwich&amp;quot; nationwide earlier this week, the country let out a collective gasp of head-wagging disapproval, as if Dunkin had crossed some kind of invisible threshold of common breakfast sandwich decency. The thing is, the school-marmish reaction doesn&amp;#039;t map particularly well onto the actual health credentials of doughnuts, which are hardly as ruinous to one&amp;#039;s health or to the moral fabric of American society as everyone seems to believe (I&amp;#039;m particularly attuned to this topic because I&amp;#039;ve co-authored a doughnut cookbook, out later this summer, which I will now shamelessly plug via this pre-order link). Not that you&amp;#039;re necessarily counting, but just for the record, a glazed doughnut is not the most calorific breakfast bread that Dunkin&amp;#039; Donuts could have used \u2014 or has used \u2014 to sandwich your morning bacon and eggs. For reference, a Dunkin&amp;#039; Donuts Glazed Donut is tabulated at 260 calories; here are four alternatives that rank higher on the gut-busting scale. 1. Biscuits: Biscuits, while gloriously delicious, are essentially little hockey pucks of flour and lard. Dunkin&amp;#039; Donuts&amp;#039; versions contain 280 calories and are guaranteed to sit like a rock in your stomach all day long. 2. Croissants:\u00A0These butter-soaked French pastries tend to be pretty unrepentent fat and calorie bombs, but are commonly used as buns for breakfast sandwiches without anybody batting an eyelid. Dunkin&amp;#039; Donuts croissants run you 330 calories. I cannot speak for the caloric content of\u00A0cronuts.\u200B   3. Bagels: Yeah, bagels. Some of you might think of bagels as doughnuts&amp;#039; sensible, vaguely-nutritional-seeming cousin, but you would be wrong \u2014 at least from a calorie perspective. A plain bagel at Dunkin clocks in at 310 calories. 4. Brioche: Dunkin&amp;#039; Donuts doesn&amp;#039;t stray into brioche territory, but it&amp;#039;s a common enough type of sandwich bun that it deserves a mention. See, brioche is basically France&amp;#039;s attempt at dressing butter up in a bread costume. It&amp;#039;s just butter with enough flour mixed in it to create the semblence of a carbohydrate. A brioche hamburger or sandwich bun will likely run you 300 or more calories.   So, gentlemen, enough with the rending of moo-moos and throaty howls of outrage. If you&amp;#039;re really concerned about your health, you&amp;#039;d go to your local bagel shop right now and order a donut sliced in half and slathered with cream cheese. And if they look at you funny, tell them you&amp;#039;re watching your figure. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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