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Michigan bakery sells Hoffa cupcakes
AP/Yahoo ^ | 5/24/06 | BRIAN CHARLTON

Posted on 05/24/2006 8:09:57 PM PDT by martin_fierro

Michigan bakery sells Hoffa cupcakes

By BRIAN CHARLTON, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 52 minutes ago

MILFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Cupcakes aren't usually a best-seller at the Milford Baking Company. But since the addition of a plastic green hand emerging from the chocolate-flavored sprinkles and frosting meant to resemble dirt, the bakery can't make enough of the desserts.

In the week since dozens of FBI agents, police and others invaded this small community 30 miles northwest of Detroit to search for the remains of former Teamsters chief Jimmy Hoffa, local businesses are taking advantage of the national spotlight aimed at them.

With humorous signs, specially made T-shirts and themed meals, business owners are poking fun at the search while trying to attract more customers.

About 500 of the 95-cent cupcakes had been sold as of Wednesday afternoon, with orders coming in from all over the Detroit area. One businessman even waited outside the bakery at 5 a.m. so he could treat co-workers, and an FBI agent ordered three dozen to take to those working at the dig site, co-owner Laura Helwig said.

While basketball-shaped Detroit Pistons cookies also are a popular item, the Hoffa cupcakes are the best single-day seller ever at the bakery, Helwig said.

The bakery has ordered an additional 700 green hands with the expectation that demand will remain high. The FBI has said the search, which began May 17 at the Hidden Dreams horse farm, is expected to last a couple of weeks. The FBI on Wednesday intensified its search for Hoffa's remains, using an excavating machine to knock down a barn.

"I never dreamed it would take off like this," Helwig said as she put icing on a batch of Pistons cookies. "We're just trying to have fun with the whole thing."

Another local business, Main Street Art, has sold 50 to 75 T-shirts with an ironed-on decal that reads: "The FBI Digs Milford, Do You?"

Main Street Art owner Leslie Watson said she has received orders for the $15 shirts from as far away as Virginia and Florida.

"We thought there would be interest here, but not nationally," Watson said. "We're just trying to keep up."

Business owners are quick to say they're not trying to offend but want to have a little fun with the media hoopla.

Lu & Ruby's Bar & Grill offers a $12.95 Hoffa Steak Salad "buried under field greens with mushrooms and edible flowers."

The local Dairy Queen changes its large white sign daily with new sayings. On Wednesday, it read: "Old McMaster Had A Barn EE I EE I O," referring to Rolland McMaster, a Hoffa associate who owned the farm at the time of the former Teamster leader's disappearance in 1975.

"We've been having a great time," Dairy Queen manager Joyce McNulty said. "People tell us they can't wait to drive by daily to see the new signs."

Across the street at Bakers of Milford, a restaurant and banquet hall, general manager Angelo Nardoni said his business also was having some fun with the situation.

On Wednesday, its sign read "Hoffa Mile Down The Road Experienced Diggers Wanted" on one side and "Welcome To Milford Have A Hoffa Day!!" on the other.

"The whole town is abuzz," Nardoni said. "But if it's got to be somewhere, why not here?"

Although some members of the community are focusing on the goings-on at the farm, Milford Township hasn't changed much to Lynnette West, a 65-year-old resident of nearby Highland Township.

As she shopped downtown Wednesday afternoon, West said most residents were busy with planting flowers and preparing for the annual Memorial Day parade.

"I wish they'd find him," she said. "I just think it's a waste of money though."


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Food; Humor; Miscellaneous; Test Topic, Ignore It; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cupcakes; hoffa

1 posted on 05/24/2006 8:10:00 PM PDT by martin_fierro
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Cashier Laura Hosbach, 19, prepares an order for a customer at The Milford Baking Co., Wednesday, May 24, 2006, in Milford, Mich. The store is selling cupcakes featuring plastic hands posed in a rising-from-the-grave manner as a macabre reflection of the ongoing local investigation seeking the remains of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. (AP Photo/Gary Malerba)

2 posted on 05/24/2006 8:10:57 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro
Imagine what pastry that they could make in "honour" of Bugsy Siegel.
3 posted on 05/24/2006 8:17:48 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: martin_fierro; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; SandyInSeattle; Darksheare; OSHA; ..
Is dat bak'ry usin' Union labor? If it ain't, dere could be accidents, knowwhaddimean?


4 posted on 05/24/2006 8:17:55 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Pray for peace, prepare for war.)
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To: JRios1968; Toby06

Hoffa bakery ping

Didn't they just find jimmie in MI?

I won the fight with the pitbull, btw!!!! ROFL!!!!


5 posted on 05/24/2006 8:20:33 PM PDT by phantomworker (And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds...)
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To: phantomworker

What pitbull?


6 posted on 05/24/2006 8:27:42 PM PDT by JRios1968 (In memoriam...)
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To: windcliff

We have to make these for Halloween.


7 posted on 05/24/2006 8:38:59 PM PDT by stylecouncilor
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To: JRios1968

The jimmie Ipw pitbull I told you about last night. No matter, it's dead and gone anyway.


8 posted on 05/24/2006 10:29:47 PM PDT by phantomworker (And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds...)
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To: mikrofon; Charles Henrickson; LibertarianInExile; aculeus; dighton; Thinkin' Gal

He sleeps with the loaves.

9 posted on 05/24/2006 10:32:52 PM PDT by martin_fierro (not the fishes)
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To: martin_fierro

Those hands are still stained with greenback cash.


10 posted on 05/25/2006 2:18:06 AM PDT by battlegearboat
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To: battlegearboat; martin_fierro

"Those hands are still stained with greenback cash."

Aw, get Hoffa their back...they're just bakers, you dig?


11 posted on 05/25/2006 3:58:56 AM PDT by LibertarianInExile ('Is' and 'amnesty' both have clear, plain meanings. Are Bill, McQueeq and the President related?)
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To: phantomworker

It's daed, Jim.

12 posted on 05/25/2006 5:06:29 AM PDT by JRios1968 (In memoriam...)
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To: JRios1968
LOL. Kind of a scary guy. He's supposed to be right here:


13 posted on 05/25/2006 5:28:37 AM PDT by phantomworker (And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds...)
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To: martin_fierro

They were too heavy and overcooked...almost like concrete.


14 posted on 05/25/2006 5:31:46 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: phantomworker

Of course! X marks the spot!


15 posted on 05/25/2006 5:34:36 AM PDT by JRios1968 (In memoriam...)
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To: LibertarianInExile

Loose lips "sinks" ships


16 posted on 05/25/2006 10:16:53 AM PDT by battlegearboat
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To: martin_fierro
They should sell Hoffa bread. "Hoffa Loaf is better than none!"
17 posted on 05/25/2006 3:39:18 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Faster than a speeding building; able to leap tall bullets at a single bound!)
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To: VadeRetro

Of Hoffa Nuggets. "Parts is Parts."


18 posted on 05/25/2006 3:40:45 PM PDT by dfwgator (Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)
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To: VadeRetro

L O L


19 posted on 05/25/2006 4:05:52 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

Wonder if they have the John Holmes Hot dogs buns?


20 posted on 06/04/2006 11:51:30 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( When are we going to draw a line a say"this far and no farther")
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