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7. Then there was Nashville's Mother Teresa look-alike "nun bun!"

https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2016/12/02/11-years-later-nun-bun-mystery-remains/94743112/



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It all started at Bongo Java in 1996 when employees found what would quickly become the famous pastry. If you ask me, it actually does look like the Catholic missionary and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, who died in 1997.

The Nun Bun swiftly made world headlines, appearing everywhere from CNN and the Washington Post to "The Late Show with David Letterman" and the BBC.

Bongo Java shellacked the bun and put it on display, and within weeks, hundreds of people had flocked to the little coffee shop on Belmont Boulevard to see it up close. The shop sold T-shirts and mugs emblazoned with the bun’s image and the words “the Immaculate Confection.”

Then came the controversy. Shortly after the Nun Bun went viral, Bernstein got a letter signed by Mother Teresa herself, asking that her name not be used commercially. That’s when the pastry became known simply as the Nun Bun.


Nine years later, the Nun Bun resurfaced in headlines when it was stolen from Bongo Java on Christmas morning. A glass case protecting the relic was shattered and only the bun was missing.

Bernstein offered a $5,000 reward for its return, to no avail.

Bernstein said the mystery still remains, nearly 11 years after its disappearance.

You just can’t make this stuff up."