If you start straight across the middle, you're going to have a mess to deal with when you're holding it in your hand and it begins collapsing. The icing gets all over your lips and the roll falls apart.
Planning how to attack a cinnamon roll is
not much different
than planning to quit smoking.
You might find it would better serve your face and fingers (in public) if you cut that roll in half, and, start at one corner then work to the middle.
PS As it turns out, the best way is to grab the thing and hold on until you've eaten everything except what you're holding, then, eat that and lick your fingers and grab another one to practice on.
With quitting smoking all you have to do is
Keep them away from your face!
I bought a 6 pack of these purely for illustrative purposes.
I dropped some oranges off for Steve this morning but he was gone. We texted later and as it turns out, his right lung is still collapsed and he was getting a lift installed on his car for a brand new electric scooter to go on it and he was in San Diego for that.
I hope he doesn't back into anything. He has a history. 
