Honey buns — those intensely sweet, golden-glazed pastry snacks — are the currency du jour in Florida prisons, with Florida inmates buying more honey buns than cigarettes or Coke® — more 270,000 buns a month. They are used to barter for everything from prescription drugs to Social Security numbers, and at least two honey bun-related stabbings have been reported.
More facts about honey buns in prison:
Florida's inmates aren't the only ones with a love affair with honey buns. North Carolina's inmates use the buns to flavor fermented orange juice and even to make birthday cakes.
Honey buns are also a common request for last meals, and one inmate paid his public defender lawyers in honey buns when he was saved from the electric chair.
When the price of honey buns went up a few cents, many prisoners complained, and relatives of the inmates even wrote angry letters to the prisons.
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