I started reading a book by Elisabeth Berg today- “True to Form”- and for the second time ran into characters eating Monkey bread. (the other book that mentioned it is “The Deep End of the Ocean”). Having no clue what it was, I looked it up. Bread with cinnamon, how exotic. Of course, neither of the recipes I looked at said why it’s called that…
Does anyone know? It can’t just be because it’s brown. Lots of breads are brown.
That’s always been the explanation given in my family, too. We also comment on how we tend to lick our fingers and smack our lips when we eat it, which are also simian traits.
I love monkey bread and I really shouldn’t eat it.