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Crullers are what Aunt Em offers to the farmhands Zeke, Hunk and Hickory in the beloved 1939 film version of 'The Wizard of Oz'. The term comes from the Dutch word 'krullen', which means 'to curl'. Traditionally, it refers to the type of cake doughnut that's eaten by some Europeans on Shrove Tuesday. Traditionally, it's a way of using up fat that otherwise won't make it through the special dietary restrictions on Christian observers of Lent.

Lyman Frank Baum [May 15, 1856-May 6, 1919], author of the original 1900 book edition of 'The Wizard of Oz', was of German descent. So he would have been familiar with the food. Krullers or crullers particularly were popular in the New England and Mid Atlantic areas of the United States of America. But they could be found anywhere that Germans settled. So what with German immigrant communities throughout the mid and south west, it wasn't a far fetched choice for Aunt Em might to serve the family's farm workers.

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