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Roll, orange roll.
The home of the Alabama Crimson Tide has a curious obsession with pastries painted in the citrus tint of gridiron rival Tennessee Volunteers.
“There’s a chunk of Alabama that has fallen hard for orange rolls,” Melissa Hall, co-director of the Southern Foodways Alliance in Oxford, Mississippi, told Fox News Digital.
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She cites central Alabama as the orange-flavored heart of the Yellowhammer State.
Orange rolls look much like cinnamon rolls, both made with yeast dough.
“Every recipe has its own twist,” Southern Living magazine wrote in 2019.
“Some contain cinnamon, some do not, and some recipes will offer a filling containing orange curd or marmalade.”
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The magazine wrote of the phenomenon: “One special sweet roll, the Alabama orange roll, has taken an entire state by storm.”
All Steak, a venerable steakhouse in the north-central Alabama city of Cullman, is considered the birthplace of the state’s orange roll.
“There’s a chunk of Alabama that has fallen hard for orange rolls.”
But the steakhouse sweet traces its roots – perhaps not coincidentally – to a neighbor from the land of orange, Millard Buchman.
He opened the original All Steak in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1934.
He moved the restaurant to Cullman four years later.
The “soft, chewy” Alabama orange rolls at All Steak “get their delicious sweet and tart tang from a glaze made with plenty of sugar, butter and a hint of orange peel,” the Alabama Tourism Board said earlier this year.
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The travel group has named the steakhouse orange pastry one of the 100 best things to eat in Alabama several times in recent years.
Millie Ray, a Birmingham homemaker and mother of two boys, became an Alabama orange roll icon in 1979 when she began baking the treats for her garden-club potluck parties.
Millie Ray and Sons now distributes the late mom’s orange rolls throughout the Southeast and as far away as San Antonio, Texas and Wichita, Kansas.
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Alabama is not the only part of the country with an orange roll tradition, however.
They’ve been a Sunday brunch staple in the Midwest for decades.
“The origins of orange rolls and their popularity in the Midwest is, like many things, a bit cloudy,” writes North Dakota native Sarah Wassberg Johnson on her website, TheFoodHistorian.com
“If you search for ‘history orange rolls’ today, you’ll likely get a LOT of hits about ALABAMA orange rolls … but nary a one about the Midwestern kind.”
She concluded, “Truth be told, they don’t look like they differ much.”
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Johnson traces the origin of orange rolls to the explosive popularity of Florida oranges in the 1920.
Hall of the Southern Foodways Alliance says the citrusy sweets were likely popularized by Sunkist soon after the orange growers cooperative was founded in 1893.
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It’s time for Round 2.
Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving and the Dallas Mavericks are on the road against Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder for Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal Tuesday night. Follow along for live updates, game stories and more from our reporters on the scene in Oklahoma City.
— Game 1 is scheduled to tip off at 8:30 p.m. at Paycom Center.
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BUFORD, Ga. (Atlanta News First)—If you can’t get enough sports, listen up: Major League Pickleball will play its 2024 season this weekend in metro Atlanta.
You might have heard of the local MLP team, the Atlanta Bouncers, but the players are brand new.
“My name is Angie Walker. I am a professional pickleball player and play for the Atlanta Bouncers,” Walker announced.
Unlike your grandma, the Bouncers, made up of Walker, Jaume Martinez Vich, Todd Fought, and Genie Erokhina, don’t do this for kicks.
“Pickleball allows me not to have another job,” Martinez Vich said.
Most players come from tennis backgrounds. Martinez Vich was a three-time all-American tennis player in college at Hawaii Pacific, Walker played at Idaho State, and Fought at Weber State.
The four Bouncers were drafted by Atlanta in April’s MLP Draft.
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“Every day, I wake up and get to do something I genuinely love and call it my job,” Walker said.
But the time for excitement is over, and Chris Wolfe, who runs pickleball operations for Competitive Sports Ventures and acts as the Bouncer’s coach when they’re in town, has one goal in mind.
“I think we have one of the top teams, and we’re ready to move on to Premier [Level],” Wolfe said.
Major League Pickleball works a bit like European soccer. There are 22 teams spread into two leagues: Premier and Challenger. At season’s end, the top four Challenger teams move into Premier.
“They need waters, they want me to sing to them, I’ll do whatever,” Wolfe said.
The team practices at one of CSV’s businesses, the popular Pickle & Social in Buford.
The Bouncers are the Deep South’s only team, partly owned by Atlanta Hawks point guard Trae Young.
And a nearly 30-match season begins Friday, May 10, at the Peachtree Corners Lifetime Fitness.
It’s the start of Walker and Martinez Vich hope are long careers in a successful league.
“I hope so,” Walker said. “Definitely the next five. Hopefully forever.”
“We’re going in the right direction, and that’s what matters,” Martinez Vich said.
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