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Roll, orange roll.The home of the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/ncaa/alabama-crimson-tide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alabama Crimson Tide</a> 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 <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/southeast/mississippi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oxford, Mississippi</a>, told Fox News Digital.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/easy-drinking-herbal-beer-gruit-inspired-era-ale-aphrodisiac-medicine-hallucinogen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EASY-DRINKING HERBAL BEER GRUIT INSPIRED BY ERA WHEN ALE WAS APHRODISIAC, MEDICINE, HALLUCINOGEN</a>She cites <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/southeast/alabama" target="_blank" rel="noopener">central Alabama</a> as the orange-flavored heart of the Yellowhammer State.Orange rolls look much like cinnamon rolls, both made with <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/food-drink/recipes/techniques/baking" target="_blank" rel="noopener">yeast dough</a>."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 <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/food-drink/food" target="_blank" rel="noopener">orange curd</a> or marmalade."<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/american-culture-quiz-test-mastery-history-trends-celebrities-more" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AMERICAN CULTURE QUIZ: TEST YOUR MASTERY OF HISTORY, TRENDS, CELEBRITIES AND MORE</a>The magazine wrote of the phenomenon: "One special sweet roll, the Alabama orange roll, has <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/food-drink/food/food-trends" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taken an entire state</a> 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.But the steakhouse sweet traces its roots – perhaps not coincidentally – to a neighbor from the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/ncaa/tennessee-volunteers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">land of orange</a>, 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. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/grits-belt-unmarked-undeniable-demarcation-american-culinary-cultures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">THE GRITS BELT IS AN UNMARKED BUT UNDENIABLE DEMARCATION OF AMERICAN CULINARY CULTURES</a>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 <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/food-drink/food/cooking-basics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">baking the treats</a> 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.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/newsletters?cmpid=fnfirstnl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER</a>Alabama is not the only part of the country with an orange roll tradition, however.They've been a Sunday brunch staple in <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/midwest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Midwest</a> for decades."The origins of orange rolls and their popularity in the Midwest is, like many things, a bit cloudy," writes <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/midwest/north-dakota" target="_blank" rel="noopener">North Dakota</a> 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."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. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle">For more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.com/lifestyle.</a>

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content: 'Roll, orange roll.The home of the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/ncaa/alabama-crimson-tide"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alabama Crimson Tide</a> 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 <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/southeast/mississippi"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oxford, Mississippi</a>, told Fox News Digital.<a
 href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/easy-drinking-herbal-beer-gruit-inspired-era-ale-aphrodisiac-medicine-hallucinogen"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">EASY-DRINKING HERBAL BEER GRUIT INSPIRED
 BY ERA WHEN ALE WAS APHRODISIAC, MEDICINE, HALLUCINOGEN</a>She cites
 <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/southeast/alabama" target="_blank"
 rel="noopener">central Alabama</a> as the orange-flavored heart of the Yellowhammer
 State.Orange rolls look much like cinnamon rolls, both made with <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/food-drink/recipes/techniques/baking"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">yeast dough</a>."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 <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/food-drink/food"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">orange curd</a> or marmalade."<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/american-culture-quiz-test-mastery-history-trends-celebrities-more"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">AMERICAN CULTURE QUIZ: TEST YOUR MASTERY
 OF HISTORY, TRENDS, CELEBRITIES AND MORE</a>The magazine wrote
 of the phenomenon: "One special sweet roll, the Alabama orange roll, has <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/food-drink/food/food-trends"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">taken an entire state</a> 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.But the steakhouse sweet traces
 its roots – perhaps not coincidentally – to a neighbor from the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/ncaa/tennessee-volunteers"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">land of orange</a>, 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. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/grits-belt-unmarked-undeniable-demarcation-american-culinary-cultures"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">THE GRITS BELT IS AN UNMARKED BUT UNDENIABLE
 DEMARCATION OF AMERICAN CULINARY CULTURES</a>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 <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/food-drink/food/cooking-basics"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">baking the treats</a> 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.<a
 href="https://www.foxnews.com/newsletters?cmpid=fnfirstnl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CLICK
 HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER</a>Alabama is not
 the only part of the country with an orange roll tradition, however.They''ve
 been a Sunday brunch staple in <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/midwest"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Midwest</a> for decades."The origins of
 orange rolls and their popularity in the Midwest is, like many things, a bit cloudy,"
 writes <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/midwest/north-dakota"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">North Dakota</a> 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."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. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle">For
 more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.com/lifestyle.</a>'
summary: Alabama orange rolls have grown into an local culinary specialty. The orange
 rolls of venerable All Steak restaurant were named one of the 100 best things to
 eat in Alabama.
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