noone <up@arse> wrote in news:ibjmv41ev1gu22l22v0d9hrml8bekpngoq@4ax.com:
> I always thought it started from the phrase "Go take a flying fuck at
> a rolling doughnut". The first person to succeed thought "what a good
> idea" and the hole became a regular fixture.
>
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:11:57 -0500, "::darkshadows::" <bat@cave.org>
> wrote:
>
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>>Why do doughnuts have holes?
>>
>>The question as to why doughnuts have holes has been raised by dozens
>>of bakers over the years, but most agree that the answer to this
>>sticky question lies in the fact that the interior of these fried
>>cakes would not cook fully without a hole in the center. In short, the
>>consistency of a doughnut lacking a hole would be, quite simply,
>>doughy.
>>
>>Another riveting theory as to the origin of the bulls eye in the
>>doughnut holds that a sea captain named Hanson Gregory, while manning
>>his post one stormy night, found it impossible both to steer his
>>vessel and to eat his fried cake. Out of sheer frustration, and
>>probably out of hunger, he impaled his cake over one of the spokes of
>>the ship's wheel, thereby creating a finger hold with which to grip
>>the cake. Quite pleased with his ingenuity, Mr. Gregory ordered the
>>galley's cook to fry the cakes in that manner henceforth.
>>
>>Whatever the reason for the hole in the doughnut, this fried cake,
>>with or without a hole, has been incorporated into the diets of people
>>throughout the world for centuries. In fact, archaeologists found
>>petrified fried cakes with holes amongst the artifacts of a primitive
>>Indian tribe.
>>
>>Many credit Dutch settlers to America with introducing the non-holed
>>olykoeks, or "oily cakes," to this continent, and with their
>>subsequent popularity.
>>
>>There is no disputing the fact that the fried cake became the rage in
>>New York and in New England, and that before long, it became the
>>specialty of coffee shops. Fried cakes came into their own in 1673,
>>when a self-made New York marketing guru, Anna Joralemon, made their
>>purchase at the market possible.
>>
>>To this day, doughnuts, in any shape or form, remain married in our
>>minds to coffee and police officers, and are here to stay.
>
>
Actually it was put there to measure the IQ of the French. LOL.
Mercury.
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