A four-hour wait on Election Day? Well, yes, when it comes to these cinnamon buns
Voters in Homestead have overwhelmingly made their choice on Election Day.
It’s Knaus Berry Farm’s cinnamon buns by a big margin over presidential candidates, incumbent President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
A spokesman for the popular fruit and vegetable stand in the South Miami-Dade community told a Miami Herald reporter the wait in line for the ever popular cinnamon buns and other goodies was about 4 1/2 hours on Tuesday afternoon.
A first for this voter
It was a first for Janet Aguado on all fronts.
The first-time voter and Knaus Berry Farm goer had a plan: stand hours under the sun at her West Kendall voting precinct and then treat herself to a cinnamon roll at the legendary hot spot.
“But we had it all wrong,” she said as she showed a reporter her “I VOTED” sticker.
“It was the opposite. Voting took five minutes and the cinnamon rolls — well it’s been two hours and still no cinnamon rolls.”
The 54-year-old mother said her daughter has been raving about the gooey rolls for years, so she made it a point to celebrate with dessert.
“I guess several other hundreds others had the same plan in mind,” she joked.
Aguado was one of hundreds of people who stood in the 4-1/2 hour line on Election Day. Many of them had voting stickers on, while others said they had already voted.
José Rodríguez, 61, said he was actually planning to to treat himself before going to the polls.
“I won’t say who I’m voting for but I will disclose that I’m picking up two dozen rolls and a chocolate milkshake,” he said.
When asked why go to Knaus Berry Farm on Election Day, 23-year-old Christian Gilde said: “there’s nothing more American than cinnamon rolls.”
As for Election Day lines nearby?
At one point in the afternoon, it was a dead zone at Homestead Senior High Tuesday afternoon.
But the precinct still drew some candidates stumping for last-minute votes.
Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a Democrat seeking reelection to Congress in District 26, stopped by to talk to any voters who walked by.
Her opponent, Republican Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez, was in the area earlier but had since headed north.
“Carlos Gimenez has lost the trust and support of the voters here ... that has been apparent and that is why he got booed” at the Trump rally, she said.
A Gimenez supporter told the Miami Herald that Gimenez got her vote for a second time. The canvasser, Andrea Toledano, who was disappointed by the lack of foot traffic at the precinct, said the nearby Knaus Berry Farm is “where it’s at.”
“I thought to myself: ‘Today may be the day to finally get some famous cinnamon buns’ — but I was dead wrong. That line we were anticipating at the polls is actually out there getting some buns.”
Toledano, who couldn’t make the hour line, ultimately came to the polls hungry.
This story was originally published November 3, 2020 at 2:08 PM.
