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Coco Bread
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Coco bread contains no coconut flesh at all despite the name; the "coco" comes from the coconut milk used in the dough, and Kingston bakeries are where the bread became inseparable from being folded around a hot beef patty.
A soft, slightly sweet, folded roll enriched with coconut milk and butter, baked fresh and typically split open to wrap around a hot patty, sold from bakeries and street windows across Kingston.
Why it's made this way: Kingston's dense bakery culture and its central role in popularizing the patty-and-coco-bread combo make the bread a defining piece of the capital's street food identity.
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