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Slam junk. (Food Porn).


"Two hotcakes, two eggs, two bacon strips, two sausage links, and too famous for words."

That's how Denny's menu describes the Original Grand Slam grand slam
n.
1. The winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand in bridge and other whist-derived card games.

2. Sports The winning of all the major or specified events, especially on a professional circuit.
 Breakfast. You get roughly 1,300 calories, three-quarters of a day's saturated fat saturated fat, any solid fat that is an ester of glycerol and a saturated fatty acid. The molecules of a saturated fat have only single bonds between carbon atoms; if double bonds are present in the fatty acid portion of the molecule, the fat is said to be , and a day's sodium for just $5.59.

Now the Slams are spreading. You can get a whole day's sat fat in the All-American Slam (three eggs plus cheddar cheese, hash browns hash browns
pl.n.
Chopped cooked potatoes, fried until brown. Also called hash brown potatoes.
 or grits grits

coarsely ground hominy served in traditional Southern breakfast. [Am. Culture: Misc.]

See : Southern States
, two strips of bacon, two sausage links, and bread). The French Slam will set you back 1,260 calories. The Farmer's Slam (three eggs with sausage, hash browns, peppers, and onions, all topped with gravy and cheddar cheese, plus two hotcakes, two bacon strips, and two sausage links) tops 1,400 calories. So does the Lumberjack Slam.

At least Denny's did one thing right. Its Slim Slam (Egg Beaters egg substitute with one slice of grilled ham and two hotcakes with fruit topping) means a mere 600 calories and three grams of sat fat.

A big breakfast used to mean either eggs and bacon or pancakes and sausage or an omelet and hash browns. The Slams put the whole shebang Noun 1. whole shebang - everything available; usually preceded by `the'; "we saw the whole shebang"; "a hotdog with the works"; "we took on the whole caboodle"; "for $10 you get the full treatment"  on one plate.

Dennys: (800) 733-6697.
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Publication:Nutrition Action Healthletter
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Date:Mar 1, 2002
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