Doughnut, Donut, Dough nut

A visual presentation on my doughnut inquiry By Carrie Nowell Honors English 1103 Professor Presnell

A Doughnut Inquiry

Why is it that doughnuts have holes?

Whats up with the funky spelling? Is it doughnut, donut, or dough nut?
I need answers

Origins = ambiguous
Dutch olykoeks, sweet pastries fried in pork fat

Basket-Maker Indian, 1924

Types of Doughnuts
Cake Doughnuts Yeast-rise Doughnuts

served in the home and kneaded

made from a mold and sold by large scale doughnut manufacturers

The American doughnut

Doughnut girls of World War I raised popularity of doughnuts in States by frying up and handing out doughnuts as comfort food for GIs overseas

Doughnut lassies

Krispy Kremes beginnings

Young entrepreneur and doughnut salesman Vernon Rudolph took opportunity to capitalize on doughnut craze and opened his first doughnut shop with brother Lewis in Winston-Salem, N.C. with only $25 Company took off! (left) Original Krispy Kreme store, Winston-Salem, N.C. in 1930s

(right) Krispy Kreme headquarters 2013,

Winston-Salem, N.C.

Industrialization
Original humble Krispy Kreme doughnut maker of 1950s, Ring King Jr., crafted 75 dozen doughnuts per hour Todays doughnut factories manufacture 10 times that an hour *I inferred the transition from homemade, hand crafted to factory and machine produced was the cause of the doughnut hole, but I never found substantial evidence

(right) Ring King Jr. doughnut molder

(above) Inside a Krispy Kreme factory

Summary: Why it matters

Diverse and ambiguous origins, several varied types of doughnuts, multifaceted, patriotic, and industrialized sounds pretty American!

A Prideful American Dessert

As Americans, we should our melting pot history, represented by novelties like doughnuts, because we are a nation of assimilation!

Others Interesting discoveries

Doughnut Industry= $12 billion/yr

Create Dunkins Next Donut Popularity Vote

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My favorite?

Maple Bacon Doughnut