10 Interesting Facts About Donuts | 10 Fun Facts About Donuts

Описание: Doughnuts are sweet pastries, usually ring shaped with a hole in the middle and deep fried in hot oil. They are a popular snack in many countries and a classic American confection. They come in a variety of shapes, sizes, flavors, fillings and can be homemade or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls and specialty vendors. Doughnut is the traditional spelling, while donut is the simplified version.

Learn more about donuts with these 10 interesting facts.

1 - Fried dough pastries were introduced to New York in the 17th century, back when the area was called New Amsterdam and Dutch was the main language. The term 'doughnut' or 'donut' came in the 19th century after a New England woman named Elizabeth Gregory put nuts in the middle of the dough balls before frying them. Her son Captain Hanson Gregory claimed to have given the classic toroid shape to donuts. He skewered a donut through one of the spokes of the wheel of the ship for using both hands to steer.

2 - During WWI the Salvation Army decided to use donuts to support the U.S. militaries fighting in France and Germany. To do this, voluntary women called "Donut Lassies" fried and served donuts to the troops. To honor those heroic women, Salvation Army created the National Doughnut Day.

3 - In 1920 Adolph Levitt, a refugee from czarist Russia, started selling doughnuts in his bakery in New York. The demand was so big that he created a machine for mass producing donuts.

4 - Americans are crazy for donuts. Every year, in the U.S. they make more than 10 billions of donuts of a variety of shapes, sizes, flavors and fillings.

5 - DiGiovanni and Davis, a duo of chef bloggers, made the world's largest donut, getting the Guinness World Record title for "World's Largest Donut". It is a pink frosted donut, weights 102.5 kilograms and equals to 1,500 normal sized donuts.

6 - Besides the classic donuts made of flour, there is a variant called potato donut. It's made with either smashed potatoes or potato starch.

7 - There is an academic study that points out the correlation of the size of the hole in doughnuts to the health of the economy: the worse the economy is, the bigger the hole.

8 - Sufganiyot are round jelly filled donuts eaten in Israel and around the world on the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. This is because sufganiyot are cooked in hot oil, recalling the the second century B.C. rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, during which the oil in the temple lamp lasted eight nights instead of the expected one.

9 - For burning the 200 calories of one classic glazed donut, you have to ride a bike vigorously for half an hour.

10 - There's some truth about the "cops love donuts" stereotype. Back in the 1950s, before the debut of 24 hour open convenience stores and fast foods, doughnuts shops were one of the few late night options for police officers working the graveyard shift.

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