Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

After hearing the show that featured the call about jelly doughnuts sometimes called Bismarcks, I started thinking about the fried cinnamon rolls my older brother used to buy when I was a kid. He called them "pershings" and I'm pretty sure it was spelled that way (not "persians") because I vaguely remember seeing it on a package of the tasty treats in a supermarket bakery. I grew up in San Diego and always connected the name of the cinnamon roll to what used to be a familiar street my family would take to get to Balboa Park. The street, Pershing Drive, I'm sure was named after the army general, but what about the cinnamon roll?