A 10-year-old cinnamon bun that bore a resemblance to the late Mother Teresa was stolen from a Nashville coffeehouse Christmas Day.
Bob Bernstein, owner of Bongo Java coffee shop, said alarms went off at 6 a.m. Sunday morning, and he called police.
When he and officers arrived, they found signs of forced entry, and nothing missing except the bun from its smashed display case.
"They went right for the bun," he said. "What the heck they are going to do with it, I can't imagine."
The Nun Bun became the object of international attention in 1996, less than a year before the famous nun's death. To preserve it and its image, the bun was coated with shellac.
Bernstein stopped marketing T-shirts and mugs featuring it after Mother Teresa, then 86, personally wrote him asking him to stop.
"She didn't mind the bun itself, but she didn't want us making money off her name or image," Bernstein wrote in his history of the bun posted on his store's Web site, bongojava.com.
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