Mother Teresa cinnamon bun stolen from coffee shop
Last update: December 26, 2005 at 7:18 AM
coffeehouse to assess the scene of an early Christmas morning break-in, the one
thing he noticed missing was the cinnamon bun that bears a striking likeness to
Mother Teresa.
A customer pays Bongo Java employee Brian Ray for a cup of coffee adjacent to
the Mother Teresa Cinnamon Bun Shrine in a 1996 file photo. The sticky-sweet
apparition was first noticed on Oct. 15, 1996, by a manager at the store. The
“nun bun,” as it’s known, was stolen on Christmas Day, 2005. Mandy Lunn Associated Press
Bernstein said he believes that the culprit is someone angry over the shop
displaying the world-famous pastry, which has been preserved with shellac. A jar
of money next to the Nun Bun was not stolen.
“They went right for the bun,” he said. “Unfortunately I think it’s somebody
who wanted to take it to destroy it.”
The Nun Bun gained worldwide attention in 1996 when a customer nearly took a
bite of it before recognizing the revered nun in the folds of flaky pastry.
The bun was featured on world news programs, “The Late Show” with David
Letterman and was even mentioned on episodes of “The Nanny” and “Mad About
You.”
The shop, Bongo Java, sold T-shirts, prayer cards and mugs with the bun’s
image before Mother Teresa wrote a personal letter to the coffeehouse asking the
sales be stopped. (PROFILE (COUNTRY:United States; ISOCOUNTRY3:USA; UNTOP:021;
APGROUP:NorthAmerica;)