Are Hawaiian rolls and coffee really from Hawaii?

For galore radical successful the mainland US, Hawaii is simply a spot we imagination of.

That's wherefore Kona java and Hawaiian saccharine rolls are truthful popular: they instrumentality america there.

Fans of the Aloha State cognize that the adjacent champion happening to being determination is to bask immoderate Kings Hawaiian Rolls and lavation them down with a large cupful of Hawaiian Kona coffee.

But atrocious to shatter that tropical dream: that dainty whitethorn not person been made successful Hawaii astatine all.

A caller study successful the user tract Mouseprint.org points to a lawsuit filed against the makers of Kings Hawaiian Rolls.

While the bundle says Hilo, Hawaii on the front, the suit says the bakery is truly located successful Torrance, California, hardly a tropical paradise.

Hilo is wherever they were archetypal baked respective generations ago, with caller Hawaiian pineapple and honey, the suit says.

Kings Hawaiian has not commented connected the lawsuit.

However, determination whitethorn not beryllium overmuch wound to this case, according to Mouseprint.

It points retired that the bundle ne'er claims the rolls were really made successful Hawaii, truthful determination whitethorn not beryllium a lawsuit for mendacious advertising.

Hawaiian coffee...or not?

But from the "doesn't that stink" file, java blends connote they came from Hawaii erstwhile they did not.

Hawaii's Truth successful Labeling law requires Kona java to beryllium Hawaiian grown.

But the state's coffee commercialized radical warns that immoderate Kona blends masquerade arsenic the existent happening erstwhile they are not truly from the land and are little than 10 percent Kona.

That stinks.

Want Kona coffee? Look for a statement that says 100 percent axenic Kona.

And if you privation caller rolls made the time earlier with axenic Hawaiian pineapple, see an land vacation.

That way, you don't discarded your money.

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