Sweet home Alabama orange rolls have taken 'state by storm' of sugar, butter, citrus

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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.

Orange rolls from All Steak restaurant in Cullman, Alabama. (Chris Granger/Alabama Tourism Department)

"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.

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