Honey Buns: N.C. History with a Sweet, Sugary Glaze
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The air-conditioning blasts you at the grocery store as you pass aisles of shimmering, highly-processed snack foods.
The sound of a wrapper crinkles as the vending machine’s metal coil slowly relinquishes its wares.
At the center of it all: a honey bun.
Introduced in Greensboro more than six decades ago, this plastic-encased pastry remains a fixture of gas stations, grocery aisles and snack bars. It’s also a fixture of so many childhoods, especially in North Carolina.
The gritty sugar glaze is delicious or cloying, depending on personal taste but regardless, it evokes deep-seated nostalgia for consumers as they hearken back to a time when they didn’t bat an eye at more than a dozen grams of sugar in one package.
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An author who inspired an LGBTQ+ writing competition in the Channel Islands says he hopes it will encourage others to be true to themselves.
William Dameron will be among those judging entries to the competition, which has been launched by the equality group Liberate as part of LGBT History Month.
His book
The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing and Coming Out told the story of how he was finally able to embrace his sexuality and come out as gay, having led a heteronormative life for many years.
He hopes that the competition might inspire others to embrace who they are.