From The Smithsonian:Elizabeth Gregory, a New England ship captain's mother who made a wicked deep-fried dough that cleverly used her son's spice cargo of nutmeg and cinnamon, along with lemon rind. Some say she made it so son Hanson and his crew could store a pastry on long voyages, one that might help ward off scurvy and colds. In any case, Mrs. Gregory put hazelnuts or walnuts in the center, where the dough might not cook through, and in a literal-minded way called them doughnuts.Her son always claimed credit for something less than that: putting the hole in the doughnut. Some cynical doughnut historians maintain that Captain Gregory did it to stint on ingredients, others that he thought the hole might make the whole easier to digest. Still others say that he gave the doughnut its shape when, needing to keep both hands on the wheel in a storm, he skewered one of his mom's doughnuts on a spoke of his ship's wheel. In an interview with the Boston Post at the turn of the century, Captain Gregory tried to quell such rumors with his recollection of the moment 50 years before: using the top of a round tin pepper box, he said, he cut into the middle of a doughnut "the first doughnut hole ever seen by mortal eyes."
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In the Philippines we have Dunkin' Delivery.
In my opinion doughnuts taste better. I LOVE doughnuts but I don't really care for the doughnut holes
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Generally, some people eat doughnuts every day...
Dora's Dunking Doughnuts was created in 1933.
Top Pot Doughnuts was created in 2002.
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It is made out of dough, and in it's earlier stages, had ground nuts in it.
The Doughnuts - 1981 TV was released on: USA: 1981
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Doughnuts and Society - 1936 is rated/received certificates of: USA:Approved
A dozen donuts cost $5.99