"Bongo Java" news and stories

At Slashfood we're no strangers to images of holy women in food. We've brought you dispatches about everything from visions of the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese to her likeness in chocolate. Here's a new one on me, a cinnamon bun bearing the image of Mother Theresa.

But wait, the plot thickens. Said bun was stolen from Bongo Java a Belmont, Tenn., coffee shop about two years ago. The Nun Bun as it's come to be called had been on display for about 10 years before its theft. Fear not dear reader, the pastry is safe. A letter received by The Tennessean states that the pastry has not fallen victim to foul play.

In other nun-related pastry news, there's a another type of nun bun that's not quite as sacred, but probably no less delicious. "Nonnevotten," or nun's bums, are a sticky syrup-laden Dutch treat. Who knew? [via Boing Boing]

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Early Christmas morning, the Bongo Java coffee shop in Nashville, Tennessee, suffered a break-in. While the shop and register appeared to be undamaged, it's famous NunBun was missing. The cinnamon bun, discovered by the store manager in the 1996, was said to have the likeness of Mother Teresa in its cinnamon-glazed layers of pastry. The bun was preserved in the freezer until a local crew made a short film about it, after which the story was picked up by the city paper and propelled into the national spotlight. After having received so much attention, the bun was coated in shellac and put on display in the shop, where it has enjoyed attention as a local novelty for 9 years.

The shop owner fears that the Immaculate Confection may have been destroyed, since it was so clearly the target of this crime.

[Thanks to Tracy for the tip]

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