You know those strange "official" days I've sometimes reported on? Well today is National Doughnut Day. You have to love a place where a food fetish is raised to observance status. And trust me, this day will get observed. The doughnut providers are looking to help you celebrate. For one, Dunkin Doughnuts is offering a free doughnut when you buy a cup of coffee. And to borrow a phrase from one of our other food fetish advertisements, I bet you can't eat just one.
Just a wry observance--Memorial Day and National Doughnut Day both fall in the same week. Which one do you suppose more people will have observed?
6 comments:
Hmmm - donuts are (often) kosher, but many fruits & vegetables are now problematic if not outright banned. We're killing ourselves, slowly but surely.
I think that the origins of donut day is to thank the women who gave out donuts to World War I soldiers. A noble cause that has been lost...
True in many ways tesyaa but can you see a national broccoli or cauliflower day being really succesful or even publicized, even forgetting about the kashrus arguments that are going to come up? Lots of people like our former first president Bush who would say no thanks. I'll bet they sell millions and millions of doughnuts today. Do we even produce millions of heads of broccoli or cauliflower over a whole year, never mind for just one day's use?
Lol, may not be what you intended but this was the first I had heard about doughnut day and the free doughnut offer. heading out to get my free doughnut right after I finish this comment.
i should have checked you this morning. i was in DnD this morning. i don't drink coffee, but hey, if it means getting a free doughnut . . .
shabbat shalom
All I know was that I walked over the kosher DnD for my doughnut and it was good. The coffee coolatta I had to buy in order to get my "free" donut tasted like burned nuclear waste (I'm not a coffee lover, but the frozen coffee stuff at DnD is usually pretty tasty, if not very healthy--this did nothing to make me love coffee more). Unfortunately, I was halfway home and had no desire to schlepp back in this heat to the store to complain.
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