Friday, June 1, 2012

Just when you thought we had run out of holidays

...along comes National Doughnut Day, the first Friday in June.

I am not even kidding.

You can read all about doughnuts here.

That’s it for today’s post. Short and sweet.

5 comments:

  1. Not much nutritional value in donuts, unless of course you're in need of carbs.

    Though they're useful for the aphorism: the optimist sees the donut; the pessimist sees the hole.

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  2. Elisabeth, hello! I don't think of myself as an optimist or a pessimist, more of a contrarian. When the whole world is advocating A, I consider the merits of B. Although, all in all, I think it's better to be a pessimist, because an optimist is constantly being disappointed but a pessimist is pleasantly surprised occasionally.

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  3. my son daniel who rides over hill and dale made the first monday in december national egg nog day and every year he and now us drink egg nog prolifferally ><>also read about new york bqanning large sugary drinks for it's citizens and i also get information from those others than yourself a woman with a cleaning service broke into a home to clean, did all the dishes, dusting etc etc etc that's all i have folks

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  4. In England we sometimes use the term "doughnut" to describe a dumb person so I guess George W. Bush will be the figurehead of your National Doughnut Day.

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  5. I think cinnamon doughnuts are the best food to come out of America !! Love them with a cappacino for a morning tea treat. Any day to honour the doughnut gets my vote !!!
    Cheers

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