“Look at the price: $4.99 for a Big Pack of 9 Big Honey Buns. Let’s see how big they really are.” As she pulls out one of the honey buns, she shares, “It’s not really big.

On Sunday, Aug. 28, six judges ate their weight in fried food to award the 2022 Big Tex Choice Awards. Deep-fried honey buns, charcuterie and a horchata explosion win big.

Engineered to be better than the original, homemade honey buns take the best parts of their vending machine counterparts while using whole ingredients.

Honey buns later became part of Flowers Foods and haven’t been made in Greensboro for years. In the 1980s, an office building moved into the location where the now-defunct Griffin Pie Co ...