Eagles Super Bowl: Birds see local pastry shop as secret of success
Eagles Super Bowl: Birds see local pastry shop as secret of success
Philadelphia is on the road to New Orleans and no Super Bowl party is complete without a table of sweets. So, why not shop local for your party and eat like the Birds?
SOCIETY HILL - Here’s a little Eagles snack food trivia ahead of Super Bowl LIX - Loretta’s, in Society Hill, while supplying the team with hometown baked goods and pastries for their home games, might just have a hand in their success in the big game.
On every home game day this winning season, the bakers at Loretta’s, on 2nd Street, have been up long before anyone, baking some tasty treats and pastries just for the Philadelphia Eagles.
The backstory:
"It’s a balance of numbers and time. You start a little earlier, so we have 2 a.m. bake times now when we do the Eagles instead of maybe 4 a.m. because we have to get them there by a certain time," Loretta’s owner, Kelsey Bush explained.
Calm, unassuming and clearly talented at her craft, Bush says she got a call from the Eagles food and beverage manager a couple of years ago. He tasted her pastries and wanted them for the team.
She explained her response to the phone call this way, "We were like, yeah, absolutely, we’ll do it!"

Big picture view:
And, now, for the past several years, Loretta’s and their sister business, Bloomsday Restaurant, have supplied thousands of pastries, from almond croissants to cherry pop tarts and cinnamon rolls to the Birds when they play at the Linc.
Kelsey and her family, from Pennsylvania, bleed green and she says her brother is convinced the team’s home turf success is connected to the morning pastries on game day.
Kelsey explains, "Whenever they win and they’ve lost at home very little under our pastry delivery, he is convinced it’s something to do with the pastry."

Team gossip:
So who eats the most pastry? "The rumor has it Jordan Mailata has done the most of that."
What's next:
Kelsey is honored to provide sweet and savory pastries to the home team and wants, "To make sure they win the Super Bowl."
To that end, if they ask for their home turf treat to be delivered to New Orleans next week, she’d make it happen.
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