Inmate allegedly gets beat down over Honey Buns

Forget smuggled packs of Marlboro reds. The new prison currency sweeping the nation is Little Debbie Honey Buns. No, seriously.

Earlier this year, the National Public Radio show Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me featured a story about a Florida jail’s obsession with the sugary desserts. Comedian Mo Rocca reported:

It’s not what you’re thinking. Inside Florida’s prisons, Honey Buns,

those indestructible mounds of glazed glob, are being used for

everything it seems. Birthday cakes, sweeteners for hooch wines, even

currency. Yes, Honey Buns have become money buns, for bribing, for

betting. One inmate paid his public defenders in Honey Buns after they

saved him from the electric chair. Prisoners have come to blows over

them. How do you kill somebody with Honey Buns? Force them to eat five

of them.

The Saline County Jail is now on the golden-baked standard, and theft of the buns will likely get you beaten now, The Salina Journal reports. It appears the smokes-to-cakes conversion has already turned bloody.