Your teeth prepare to clench as your mind races, imagining what surprises will be inside this perfectly rolled breakfast burrito. Your teeth make contact with the flour tortilla and bring to sink in. Suddenly, the protective shell breaks like skin covering flesh. The juices are no longer contained and begin to flow. Your taste buds relay the sudden impulse of sensation to your mind, and your mind is pleased. Your mind begins to discern the slight flavors contained in the liquid. Is that sausage or bacon? Is that a hint of salsa? Your teeth continue to apply pressure and severs the first chunk of the burrito. Your lips close and your tongue pushes it into the roof of your mouth. You feel the texture of the insides for the first time. The slightly melted cheese mixed with the egg produces a perfectly soft foundation for the bacon chunks. You also feel the folds of the top of the shell begin to un-ravel in your mouth. These folds save your mouth from the shock factor of a full burrito bite — dulling the otherwise overwhelming taste. You slowly push the rest of the chunk into the sides of your cheeks and continue to chew. With each grind, the bacon and cheese release more savory flavor bursts. Finally, you swallow your first bite. Satisfying a hole in your stomach that you didn’t know existed. Thankfully, you look down to see the rest of a wounded burrito. The wonderful salty scent wafts up from the gaping hole. Without hesitation, you approach for a second bite. This time attacking the other corner. Suddenly, you are surprised. Your mouth is quickly flooded with tangy juices. The guacamole and salsa nearly overwhelm your taste buds. Fortunately, the excessive folds of the tortilla save you. You continue to chew, and more flavors arise from the bite. Savory cheese begins to mask the sweet tang from the initial burst. You swallow and look down to see a fully opened burrito. Now, able to see the contents, you rotate it 90 degrees. Moving the salsa and guacamole to the top with the egg, bacon and cheese below. The distribution is perfectly uneven. The bacon more to the left and the cheese more to the right allowing you to make calculated bites separating the two flavor powerhouses. You approach for a bacon bite, and OH MY GOD is it GLORIOUS. The flavor is no longer dulled by the excessive tortilla. The bite is perfect. First the sweetness from the salsa hits the front of your tongue. Then, just slightly after, the sour flavor of the lime in the guacamole takes effect. Next, the egg and bacon flavor rushes through. Perfectly executed like a skilled boxer making a jab-jab-hook, you are blown away. You can’t get enough. The hole in your stomach that you didn’t know existed suddenly grew. You are hungrier and begin to devour the rest of the burrito. Through the next several bites, you black out forgetting to enjoy the food. You change from truly enjoying the food to merely consuming it. As you near the end, you come back to — trying not believing that the glorious, miraculous, delicious burrito is almost gone. Where did it go? Did someone else steal some bites? How did this happen? Fortunately, you still have a couple bites remaining — the two end bites. You gladly take them, but it is not the same. The dulling tortilla folds have a negative effect and do not allow the magical flavor dance to dazzle your taste buds. Your look at your final bite with lust and despair. You know this will be the end. The newly formed hole in your stomach is not full, and you know this bite is not going to fill it. You take your final bite — savoring the flavor. As you swallow it, you stand up and get back into line to order another.
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Extremely vivid descriptions, Pretty well written, but bad formatting. Also not a fan of second person stories. But thanks for the contribution.