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Ok, so it’s only one day out of the month, and it lacks the balancing influence of being paired with a nice siege engine, but it is about donuts, which really deserve a whole month anyway.

So, without further adieu, I give you:

National Donut Day!

National Donut Day!

National Donut Day!

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National Doughnut Day

When : Always the first Friday in June

National Doughnut Day honors the Salvation Army "Lassies" of WWI. It is also used as a fund raiser for needy causes of the Salvation Army.

The original Salvation Army Doughnut was first served by Salvation Army in 1917. During WWI, Salvation Army "lassies" were sent to the front lines of Europe. These brave volunteers made home cooked foods, and provided a morale boost to the troops. Often, the doughnuts were cooked in oil inside the of the metal helmet of an American soldier. The American infantrymen were commonly called doughboys. Salvation Army lassies were the only women outside of military personnel allowed to visit the front lines. Lt. Colonel Helen Purviance is considered the Salvation Army's "first doughnut girl".

On National Doughnut Day, look to see if your local doughnut shop, or other organizations, are offering free donuts to solicit donations for the Salvation Army or for another needy cause. If you find them, please be generous.

Note: The word "Doughnut" is often shortened to "Donut. So, if you see the term National Donut Day, its the same day.

Who knew?

So, Happy Donut Day! Free donuts on me! Or doughnuts, whichever you prefer.

tinwë wrote:

Free donuts on me! Or doughnuts, whichever you prefer.

Does that include delivery?

Yes. Be careful what you ask for though.

You'll bite off more than you can chew there.


Whoops, wrong month!

What's the point of a National anything day on an international board?

Which nation are we talking about, anyway? Bahrain? Kazakhstan? Belize?

I hereby declare June to be International Donut Month, a celebration of donuts from around the world, featuring French beignets, Italian zeppole, Polish pÄ…czki, Austrian krapfen, Japanese sata andagi, Belgian smoutebollen, and Canadian Tim Ho's. Share your countries donuts with the rest of us!

Or not. I don't really care. I just wanted to wish Happy Donut Day to everybody.

Trebuchet ready - *check*
Set co-ordinates for Jr. High - *check*
Release the - um - releasy thingy - *check*

Okay tinnybaby - prepare to experience the joys of my country's doughnuts in five... four... three...

Just A Minute
Radio, 27 February 1973
Available on ‘Silver Minutes’, the 25th Anniversary Collection

I pissed myself laughing over this when it aired. I wish I could find an audio file of it. Much better than reading it.

NICHOLAS PARSONS: Thank you, thank you very much indeed, hello and welcome to Just A Minute. And once again we have our four most experienced and skilful male players of Just A Minute who have come in together to play the game. I’m going to ask them as always to speak if they can for just one minute on some unlikely subject without hesitation, without repetition and without deviating from the subject on the card in front of me. And according to how well they do it, they will gain their points or lose them. …and Clement Freud your turn to begin, what to do with the hole in the donut. That is the subject that Ian Messiter’s thought of for you...

DEREK NIMMO: The hole...

NICHOLAS PARSONS: So can you talk about what to do with the hole in the donut for 60 seconds starting now.

CLEMENT FREUD: It’s pretty difficult to spend 60 seconds on discussing what to do with the hole in the donut, because when you’ve said "fill it", it is left only to discuss the methods of filling and the means whereby this could be effected. Jam is a very popular substance, but lemon curd or even cream has been known to be inserted into the midst of this mass of pastry before it is sugared and fried in deep fat. In the Army where people...

BUZZ

NICHOLAS PARSONS: Peter Jones has challenged. Why?

PETER JONES: Well it isn’t made of pastry. It’s made of dough.

CLEMENT FREUD: Dough...

PETER JONES: Doughnut! It’s made of dough!

KENNETH WILLIAMS: Amazing really Clem lent himself open there to that! Because he’s supposed to be an expert isn’t he, on all this food business.

PETER JONES: Exactly! Yes!

KENNETH WILLIAMS: Amazing he laid himself open like that!

NICHOLAS PARSONS: It’s probably classified as a pastry, but I think we give it to him because of the dough. Don’t you Clement?

CLEMENT FREUD: Yes.

NICHOLAS PARSONS: Good! I like it when they’re sporting, it does help me so much! Otherwise I get so pained afterwards with the fisticuffs. Um, 30 seconds on what to do with the hole in the donut Peter Jones starting now.

PETER JONES: Well of course quite apart from filling it with cream, flavoured or otherwise, you can peer through it at a number of things...

BUZZ

NICHOLAS PARSONS: Clement Freud has challenged, why?

CLEMENT FREUD: Deviation, you really can’t!

NICHOLAS PARSONS: Well if you lift a donut up to your eye, you can peer through it because it’s got a large hole.

CLEMENT FREUD: No, no, no it doesn’t come out the other side...

NICHOLAS PARSONS: Oh yes, you are thinking, you forget the round donuts...

DEREK NIMMO: Oh the round donuts.

NICHOLAS PARSONS: ... that have a hole that goes right through...

DEREK NIMMO: A hole right through.

NICHOLAS PARSONS: You can put them on your finger.

KENNETH WILLIAMS: No, no, no, that is not a donut, that is a donut ring, which is quite another thing.

NICHOLAS PARSONS: It’s still a donut! It’s no a donut, it’s a donut ring? Well if it’s not a donut, what is it?

KENNETH WILLIAMS: I’m afraid, no, I’m afraid Clement is quite right. The hole in the donut...

PETER JONES: No, it is a ring donut!

KENNETH WILLIAMS: ...is not a donut ring! That wouldn’t do at all!

PETER JONES: It is a donut, just the same!

KENNETH WILLIAMS: We’re talking about a donut and that would not do at all!

NICHOLAS PARSONS: I think, Kenneth put it perfectly well...

KENNETH WILLIAMS: The perfect...

NICHOLAS PARSONS: Oh shut up Kenneth! When he said it’s not a donut, it’s a donut ring. Peter Jones you keep the subject and there are 20 seconds on what to do with a hole in the donut starting now.

PETER JONES: You can thread raffia through a number of holes in...

BUZZ

NICHOLAS PARSONS: Kenneth Williams has challenged.

KENNETH WILLIAMS: Deviation, there is no question about this! Nobody would go round putting raffia through donuts! I can tell you this I’ve never heard such utter rubbish in my life!

NICHOLAS PARSONS: Kenneth...

KENNETH WILLIAMS: You earlier on accused a member of this team of talking balderdash! You stood there and said it! Sat there actually!

NICHOLAS PARSONS: I didn’t say anything, Peter Jones said... now listen! If you want to put a bit of raffia through a hole in the donut, you can have a wonderful party game by holding it up and seeing who can bite the most out of it! Peter Jones you have another point and you have 17 seconds on what to do with the hole in a donut starting now.

PETER JONES: And make a kind of necklace which can be decorative and be very handy if you...

BUZZ

NICHOLAS PARSONS: Kenneth Williams has challenged.

KENNETH WILLIAMS: Deviation, I’ve never seen anyone going around in a necklace! Donut necklaces!

NICHOLAS PARSONS: I’ve never seen anybody with a donut necklace but it’s perfectly possible if you were kinky and...

KENNETH WILLIAMS: Out of your own mouth you’ve convicted yourself, it’s deviation...

NICHOLAS PARSONS: He has not deviated...

KENNETH WILLIAMS: You said that was kinky! That’s devious! I’ve never heard anything more devious in my life! That’s kinky, he said, didn’t he! You heard him say it! What’s more devious than that!

NICHOLAS PARSONS: He has not deviated from the subject on the card which is what to do with the hole in the donut. He’s put raffia round it and he’s put it round his neck. He can do what he likes with it, providing he doesn’t deviate from the subject. He has 11 seconds on what to do with the hole in the donut, Peter Jones, starting now.

PETER JONES: It can be extremely helpful if you feel like a nibble and want to eat something before you take it off...

BUZZ

NICHOLAS PARSONS: Clement Freud has challenged, why?

CLEMENT FREUD: Deviation.

NICHOLAS PARSONS: Why?

CLEMENT FREUD: The one thing you can’t nibble is the hole in the donut!

PETER JONES: But I didn’t, I didn’t say you could eat the hole!

NICHOLAS PARSONS: You did establish...

PETER JONES: You thread them through the hole, you make a necklace of the donuts and then you nibble them!

KENNETH WILLIAMS: Don’t try and wriggle out of it mate! Don’t try!

DEREK NIMMO: He’s right!

PETER JONES: Who’s right?

DEREK NIMMO: You are.

NICHOLAS PARSONS: The subject is the hole in the donut!

PETER JONES: He’s right! Derek Nimmo says I’m right!

NICHOLAS PARSONS: Well Derek Nimmo’s against me entirely through the show anyway! You were talking about, the subject is what to do with the hole in the donut, and you talked about eating so you were either deviating from the subject or else you were deviating...

PETER JONES: Well naturally you eat the hole with the rest of the donut! It’s not done to ignore the hole and leave it at the side of the plate!

NICHOLAS PARSONS: All right, they both chalked up metaphorical points for cleverness and rapport and wit! But Clement, Derek ah...

KENNETH WILLIAMS: Ah he doesn’t even know what’s he talking about! He’s terrible!

NICHOLAS PARSONS: What’s his name? Clement Freud he has a point for a correct challenge. What to do with the hole in the donut Clement, four seconds, starting now.

CLEMENT FREUD: In the Royal Navy there was a directive...

BUZZ

NICHOLAS PARSONS: Kenneth Williams has challenged.

KENNETH WILLIAMS: Deviation, the Royal Navy has nothing to do with donuts, they have rum!

NICHOLAS PARSONS: He hadn’t got going, he has two seconds left on what to do with the hole in the donut starting now.

CLEMENT FREUD: Whereas the Air Force...

WHISTLE

*stands firmly in that area of the cosmos that transcends time, with one foot firmly planted in May and the other in June*
Some people see the doughnut, other people see the hole.

Some people see the calories.

Amen.

Donut’s: The final frontier
These are the voyages of the Starship, Donut Hole
Its 5 year mission
To explore strange new fillings
To seek out new life and new toppings
To boldly go where no donut has gone before..........






into Tinwe's Trebuchet....

tinwë wrote:

I hereby declare June to be International Donut Month, a celebration of donuts from around the world, featuring French beignets, Italian zeppole, Polish pÄ…czki, Austrian krapfen, Japanese sata andagi, Belgian smoutebollen, and Canadian Tim Ho's. Share your countries donuts with the rest of us!

Facts about Krapfen you did never want to know:

They are NOT rings.

Austrian ones are filled with apricot jam.

Bavarian ones are filled with rosehip jam. (say it aloud: "Hiffenmarkmarmalade" )

In carneval season you'll get those filled with mustard to play tricks on friends (or foes)

In northern Germany they are called "Berliner".

In Berlin they are called "pancakes".

They all sound good--except the mustard ones.

To celebrate, I ate half of a doughnut yesterday. It was from Bill's Donuts, the best in this area.

Hey Areanor - bitte keine direkten Bilder-Links

It began with the forging of the Rings of Donut. Three were given to the Elves, immortal, wisest and thinest of all beings. Seven were given to the Dwarves, great miners and eaters in the mountain halls. And nine, nine donut rings were gifted to the race of Men, who above all else desire sugar. For within these rings was bound the power and the will to rule each diet. But they were all of them deceived, for deep in the land of Mordor, the Dark Lord Sauron forged another donut ring, a master ring, and into this donut ring he poured all his calories, his sprinkles and his will to dominate every living Krispy Kreme outlet.

Mine doesn't make me invisible. Far from it.

You guys crack me up!

Lidless, that radio show bit is a classic! I’ve read it somewhere before, but I’ve never heard the original. I’d love to get my hands on it if I could.

And your ring parody is brilliant, but like Tosh all the donuts I’ve ever had left me seeing decidedly more of myself in the mirror, not less. At least I don’t need to worry about becoming a wraith.

Areanor, we have filled donuts too - cream filled, custard filled, raspberry and blueberry jam filled, even dulce de leche filled. But I’d love to come to Germany to try some of your versions. Because then I’d get to come to Germany !

Ara-Anna, it was just Donut Day, not Trebuchet Day, but I think they should combine the two. I think I’ll call the Salvation Army and see if I can get them to change it to National Donut and Trebuchet Day, what do you think?

Lali, get some of Lidless’s donuts - they’ll make the calories disappear! Bill’s sound good too though.

Jude, I’ll put the net out back to catch the projectiles. Nothing like a flung donut.

No, indeed.

For once I am prepared! Because, lo and behold, in my lunch bag today there is, besides the curry leftovers from last night (I swear, sometimes I have SUCH a student's lifestyle ), resplendent in its ringness, a donut. Rejoice!

Well, I will.