Han Solo might be a hunk, but “Pan Solo” is a hunk of bread.
That is what a bakery in the San Francisco Bay Area has dubbed its 1.8m bread sculpture of the Star Wars character as he appeared after being frozen in carbonite in The Empire Strikes Back.
Hanalee Pervan and her mother, Catherine Pervan, co-owners of One House Bakery in Benicia, California, spent weeks molding, baking and assembling the life-sized sculpture using wood and two types of dough, including a type of yeastless dough with a higher sugar content that would last longer.
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The two worked at night, after the day’s business was done. The lovingly crafted details show Han Solo’s anguished face and his hands straining to reach out.
Hanalee Pervan said she might have gotten a bit obsessed.
“Mom made me leave it because I was obsessing over the lips,” Hanalee Pervan told the New York Times. “She was like: ‘You need to walk away.’”
Creating Pan Solo was particularly meaningful, she told the paper, because she contracted COVID-19 in January last year and lost much of her senses of smell and taste.
“So just to find joy in a different part of food is really important,” she said.
The sculpture is on display outside of the bakery, about a half-hour drive north of San Francisco.
Pan Solo is the bakery’s entry in the annual Downtown Benicia Main Street Scarecrow Contest. The public are to vote on their favorites from among more than two dozen creations entered by local businesses.
The Pervans, who are science-fiction and fantasy fans, entered another Star Wars-themed creation in 2020 featuring the Mandalorian and Baby Yoda.
Unfortunately, Pan Solo would not last forever. The dough eventually would be composted, not eaten.
So as a wise Jedi might warn: Do not use the forks, Luke.
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