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[h=1]Friday is National Doughnut Day -- free sinkers![/h]
[h=2]Several national chains are giving away dunkers, and one company is giving away a year's worth of treats.[/h]
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On Friday we'll celebrate National Doughnut Day, a holiday that wouldn't sound nearly as pleasant if we called it "National Oily Cakes Day" or "National Treats-Fried-in-Mili<wbr>tary-Headgear Day."

Admit it: You just lost your appetite.

Well, get it back again because free doughnuts -- the correct spelling, no matter what those Dunkin' people tell you -- is coming to hundreds of shops across the United States.

For details on where to get your free doughnuts, check the end of this post. For now, it's back to the history of those oily cakes.
Although there are legends aplenty no one can pinpoint the birthplace of the doughnut. According to Smithsonian Magazine the treat "supposedly came to Manhattan (then still New Amsterdam) under the unappetizing Dutch name of olykoeks -- 'oily cakes'."

(Could be worse: In Austria a doughnut-like fried pastry is called a "Krapfen." Imagine Homer Simpson murmuring, "Mmmmm . . . Krapfen.") <!--EndofExcerptMarker-->

National Doughnut Day was created by the Salvation Army in 1938 as a way to raise funds for the lingering Great Depression, and as a nod to the "doughnut dollies" who served the fried treats to World War I soldiers. In 1917, the Sallies had set up a mission of 250 volunteers to provide a few comforts to men on the front lines: clothes-mending, writing paper and stamps, coffee and baked goods, and the smiles of pretty young volunteers.

Turned out that their huts were ill-equipped to allow much baking, so two enterprising women decided instead to fry doughnuts in Army helmets. The Salvation Army website does not mention whether the young women told the soldiers exactly how they produced the treats.

Incidentally, World War I soldiers were not known as "doughboys" because they ate so many doughnuts. The word was in use as early as 1840, according to a book of Mexican War letters published by the University of Kentucky.

Where to get free sinkers

These days, specialized machines turn out doughnuts en masse. Good thing, because nothing gets throngs of people into a doughnut shop like the prospect of a freebie.
 

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Gave up doughnuts. God how I miss them.

A couple years ago I said I would try to send you a box of Krispy Kremes. When we were in Vegas there was a Krispy Kreme store near the Golden Nugget but they didn't know how long they would last in transit.
 
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A couple years ago I said I would try to send you a box of Krispy Kremes. When we were in Vegas there was a Krispy Kreme store near the Golden Nugget but they didn't know how long they would last in transit.

Yeah I think I was going to try that too. But it would probably ended up as a box of grease by the time it got there. lol
 

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YUCK ! You'd have to pay me a tidy sum to eat that crap, and I'm no health food nut !
 

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