A honey bun is a fried
yeast pastry that contains honey and a swirl of cinnamon in the dough and is glazed with icing. Unlike most
sweet rolls, which are generally the product of bakeries, honey buns are common
convenience store
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and
vending machine fare made by companies like
Little Debbie,
Hostess and
Duchess. Normally sold individually wrapped, alone, or in boxes, they are a snack or grab-and-go
breakfast
Breakfast is the first meal of the day usually eaten in the morning. The word in English refers to breaking the fasting period of the previous night.Anderson, Heather Arndt (2013)''Breakfast: A History'' AltaMira Press. Various "typical" or "t ...
item which can be eaten cold or heated.
Culture
Honey buns are also used as currency in United States prisons, where they are sold from
prison commissaries. In the state of Florida, 270,000 are sold per month as of 2010.
In a highly publicized instance, honey buns were used by guards in
Miami to pay for the beating of a teenager in a
youth detention center, resulting in the teen's death. Referring to the case, a
public defender
A public defender is a lawyer appointed to represent people who otherwise cannot reasonably afford to hire a lawyer to defend themselves in a trial. Several countries provide people with public defenders, including the UK, Hungary and Singapore, ...
was quoted as saying, "In here, a honey bun is like a million dollars."
See also
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Cinnamon roll
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List of buns
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List of sweet breads
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Sticky bun
Sticky buns are a type of dessert or breakfast sweet roll that generally consist of rolled pieces of leavened dough — sometimes containing brown sugar or cinnamon — compressed together to form a kind of flat loaf corresponding to ...
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Sweet roll
A sweet roll or sweet bun refers to any of a number of sweet, baked, yeast-leavened breakfast or dessert foods. They may contain spices, nuts, candied fruits, etc., and are often glazed or topped with icing. Compared to regular bread dough, ...
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