Non-Latino customers have been more and more likely to frequent Latino bakeries in Salem, where a family-owned shop called La Bonita Bakery has churned out between 4,000 and 5,000 pastries daily for seven years now. (That’s a shitload of condensed milk.) Then there’s Salvadore’s Bakery, whose owners/operators recommend gringo customers try chocolate-dipped churros and fruit-filled empanadas to satisfy their sweet tooth. And the women behind Laura and Daisy’s Mexican Bakery can count on at least one guy daily for non-brown patronage:

“I drop by whenever I go past,” he said, grabbing a tray and loading it with three pastries.

What can we say? Once you eat flan, you wanna go tan.

Panaderias offer Latino goodies to all [Statesman Journal]
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