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Benny’s Pretzels Are A Saturday Morning Tradition In Saline
Lines outside the door of Benny's Bakery are common each Saturday morning.
Benny’s Bakery in downtown Saline serves a packed house each and every Saturday morning.
It is the only day of the week the bakery offers its fresh baked, salted pretzels. Customers and businesses pre-order the town favorite and families line up out the door and along the sidewalk every weekend to meet up with others in the community, and take home a “bag of pretzels’ all their own.
Taylor Jacobson, a retired Saline High School art teacher, has been coming to for fifty years. He said he and his friends used to come to Benny’s after school long ago, but says now it is all about the weekend, and loves everything about Benny‘s.
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“It is a Saturday happening,” Jacobson said, “The pastries are the standard for the world.”
Brandon Sears and his three kids have been coming to Benny’s on Saturdays for six or seven years now.
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“It’s the kind of place where you want your kids to grow up remembering the smell of a bakery,” Sears said.
Colin Sears likes the pretzels the best, while his brother Devon digs the gumball machine.
Sully Mills, a kindergartener in Saline, loves Benny’s pretzels. He was sitting at the bakery counter waiting for a bag with his name on it. That’s right, every Saturday morning Sully walks in to Benny’s, goes back and high-fives Mr. Steve, bakery owner, and then enjoys his Saturday pretzels.
“They are yummy and squishy, they taste good and they are brown,” Sully said.
His dad, Kevin Mills, agreed.
“It’s a tradition to get our bag of pretzels, then walk over to Bill’s Barber shop so Sully can give him a pretzel too.”
They even talked about one time when they were driving out early for a vacation trip, stopping in at Benny’s at 1am on a Saturday morning to get pretzels.
Benny’s is indeed hustling and bustling at all hours. To meet the demand for Saturday morning customers, bakery staff work all night Friday, and don’t leave until the bakery closes on Saturday.
Benny’s Bakery is a full service bakery, and the first store front to light up its windows each day in downtown Saline. They serve the earliest cup of coffee in Saline at 5:30 a.m., earlier if you happened to show up. They are located at 111 W. Michigan Ave. For more information and to see a photo gallery of their specialty cakes and cookies, visit www.bennysbakerycakes.com.