Hot, Cross Buns: Things Get Tart Between Two Rival Hispanic Bakeries
12 February 2008, 6:15 PM. By Daniel Mauser
Two Hispanic bakeries are at war with each other over some recipes. Which is lovely, really, because it allowed us to come up with the headline above:
In a lawsuit filed Monday in Multnomah County Circuit Court, Saul Hernandez-Mendoza, owner of Tienda y Panaderia Santa Cruz on North Lombard Street, accuses two former employees of taking his recipes to a rival business.
Revenge. She is so sweet, no?
According to the lawsuit, those employees—Luis Moralez and Bejamin Gomez Mendoza—went on to work for El Grande Bakery, which now bakes identical cakes and pastries to the ones Hernandez sells.
“These recipes and baking methods constituted valuable trade secrets not publicly known and … the cakes and pastries made from them were and are in great demand by the Hispanic community in the greater Portland-Vancouver metropolitan area,” the lawsuit says.
Uh oh! Someone is sure to be left with egg on his face right after he gets his just desserts!
JUICY SUITS: War Between Rival Hispanic Bakeries [Willamette Week]
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Tres Leches can bring out the best and worse of some people
If anyone knows of Mexican bakeries in Boston, let me know!! Bosrican?!
I know you can find people willing to put their buns in your oven.
sweet jesus, i would die for a piece of tres leche cake from El Superior or El Gigante in LA. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…………. where can i find some in NYC?
hey didnt this happen with Magnolia and buttercup bakeries?
Unless Saul had these two sign some kind of NDA, he’s S.O.L.
@ latinogamer: Nice.
@ mare: I have no idea, but now I’ve got the strange urge to dive into a vat of frosting.
@mare: Yes. But in that case the people who founded Magnolia were a lesbian couple, and when they broke up, the one who didn’t get the bakery opened up Buttercup. That’s why they’re essentially the same cupcakes.
God! I would kill a puppy for some tres leches right now…
8 comments and not a single comment about panocha? C’mon!!!!
Sad
Tres Leches.
You can find it at the Zaragoza on Ave A and 13th
DeLeon Bakery on 9th Ave and 47th
And the best one I’ve ever had on the corner of 116 and 3rd Ave. To die for. After one bite, I felt the spectre of Wilford Brimley and I could swear I felt his whiskers on my ears as he whispered “DIABETUUS”
LP or Janie, want some leche for your conchas?
Gamer FTW!!!!
That’s the kind of albur I am talking about.
Oye Gamer, I hope its *leche* and not *queso* that you are bringing for my concha
Gamer, you dirty dog. No wonder we like you so much!
Dos Mujeres un Pepino all over again! I just hope LP does not get her concha stabbed by Janie.
and Janie, 1/3 qt of warmleche. I hopes you like it Whole
I want to put my coconuts in that bienmesabe
@ Gamer, I ain’t getting near anyone else concha, I only trust my own.
(Nothing personal LP, you know how I roll)
Y no mamo, yo tomo mi leche en vaso.
@ Janie: Agreed. We don’t roll that way. Just because we are Guana-B-F-Fs doesn’t mean we want to visit each other’s concha.
I guess LP and Janie never watched Dos Mujeres Un Camino, they never showed a threesome…but that would of been nasty
Erik Estrada, Bibi Gayton, and the fake plasticky woman all up in their pubes *shudders*
@ Gamer: Why were you watching Dos Mujeres Un Camino? :) My grandma watched that.
Bibi Gaytan and I was 13 when the showed aired…..i miss those dayz.
@ LP. Like, I know what I put in my concha, why would I want anyone elses concha and what they put in their conchas, there is just no way…unless you scissor?, right?
(Para las lesbionicas, I am not bringing the hate, Its all good, go back to slapping tortillas, nothing to see here)
@ Gamer. The last telenovela I saw was Maria Mercedes (with Thalia), after that, pues I got a life.
a lot of young men watch telenovelas cause of all of the women dress very risque that can not be seen on american stations. why do you think these novelas last so long, I know american friends going up, that did not know one drop of spanish, but watched the shows….
Gamer: you crack me up! :)