Did you know that the first Friday in June is National Doughnut (or Donut) day? Well it is! I just found out today and well no one I know will be getting a card. I may run out for a dozen. I won't be able to eat even half that many in a 24 hour stint but I will give it the old college stoner try.
National Doughnut Day started as a fund raiser for the Chicago Salvation Army in the 1930's. The great depression was on and the Salvation Army needed all the money they could muster. Doughnuts came into popularity during World War I when Doughnut Lasses made Doughnuts for the troops. After the Armistice Doughboys came back to the US with a real Hankering for a good Doughnut.
40 years later a little upstart doughnut shop opened in Massachusetts it was called Dunkin Donuts. They changed the spelling and the tastes of the good ole USA. They have become the McDonald's of Doughnuts. New England has a doughnut shop tradition. Any Sunday at any home a dozen box or two is not at all surprising. Krispy Kreme another chain of shops with a spelling anomaly seems to have the south by the Kustard. California has the mysterious and multi-cultural Dounts and Chinese food shops. We are a doughnut culture so go out and celebrate have a doughnut on the First Friday in June!
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