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(lively music) We are James and Jolly Onobun, the owners of Jolly Jolly Bakery right here in Houston, Texas. We are both from Nigeria, came to Houston in 1981. We've been at this location eight years. Nigeria is a big bread culture, yes. - Culture, yeah. We can eat it with beans. Stew. - Stew. -

Jolly

Bread and stew. Coke. Break and Coke and peanuts. Ain't that right. - That's a popular way of eating it. Yes, they've got some good break in Nigeria but not on the level of Jolly Jolly. You are looking for the softness, kind of like your pillow you lay on. Relax, mm-mm. When we started thinking about this bakery, I was looking for a name. And I said, "My wife's name is Jolly. "Jolly means happiness," so that's how it came about, just double Jolly. Yeah. (laughs) Our main business here is really bread, but we make other stuff also, such as Scotch egg. Big British influence. If you remember, England or Britain, our colonial master, so we took the Scotch egg-- -

Jolly

The Scotch egg, yep. We definitely took the tea, and we also took the Guinness beer. And Nigerians drink the most Guinness in the world. (lively music) Our cultural base, you have Cameroonians, you have Nigerians, you have Ghanaians, you have people from South Africa, Botswana, yeah. I mean, Kenya. - Yeah, everywhere. They all come out here, Americans-- Americans. - Come out here for Jolly Jolly bread. Yeah. The bread is our bread and butter. I have three wonderful sons. I would love for them to be a part of Jolly Jolly. My father left me nothing. I wanna leave them with something. -

Jolly

This is for them, really. This is for them, yeah. - Yeah. (lively music)