Japan is known for its unique and delicious take on traditional treats, and donuts are no exception! Mister Donut, the iconic Japanese doughnut chain, has served up sweet and indulgent treats to locals and tourists for over 40 years.
Canada is the number one donut consumer in the world at around 1 billion annually, followed by Japan in a close second! Lloydminster, Alberta wins for most donuts consumed per capita. The other Canadian cities better step up their donut game!
A great donut is the sum of all its parts - flavor, texture, fillings and freshness are all key elements.
The priciest doughnut on the planet is filled with champagne and topped with 24-karat gold. It's called the Golden Cristal Ube, and a dozen will set you back $1,200.
Marge explains that he ate the entire wedding cake by himself… before the wedding. On the back Homer pledges his soul to Marge, and the jury finds that his soul is the property of Marge, not the devil's. The devil begrudgingly agrees, but instead of taking Homer's soul, he turns his head into a big donut.
According to BIS Shrapnel, in the last 2 months, 20% of fast food consumers consumed doughnuts. Significant differences are noted only in living arrangement as couples with children are significantly more likely to consume doughnuts than those who live alone.
For the love of doughnuts
Whether it be a cruller or apple fritter, Canadians eat the most doughnuts in the world. Although in pop culture, like in The Simpsons, the donut is often seen as portrayals of the American life, there are more doughnut shops in Canada per capita than any other country.
1. As National Donut day approaches, the most popular donut flavor chosen is cream-filled donuts (22%). Plain glazed donuts are the second most popular choice (18%). Chocolate glazed (12%), cake/old fashioned (9%) and jelly-filled (9%) round out the top 5.
An indulgent iced caramel donut with gooey caramel filling, topped with biscuit pieces and a dark cocoa drizzle.
“But they really came into vogue in the late '70s and early '80s simply because it was a less expensive box to produce and buy.” The trend has caught on in other states too. Evergreen sells pink boxes in Arizona and Texas to relatives of local Cambodian doughnut shop owners.
10 Donuts is a chain of coffee shops that appears in Watch Dogs 2.
Hot jam donut is an Australian specialty hailing from Melbourne, which is why it's also affectionately known as the Melbourner. Unlike most other donuts, these ones are always served hot, usually from the window of a street food van at the Queen Vic Market.
Per capita, Canadians eat the most doughnuts compared to all world countries. The large number of Tim Hortons restaurants in Canada (over 4,600) significantly contributes to this consumption rate.
Origins. While food resembling doughnuts has been found at many ancient sites, the earliest origins to the modern doughnuts are generally traced back to the olykoek (“oil(y) cake”) Dutch settlers brought with them to early New York (or New Amsterdam).
Captain Hanson Gregory (1832-1921) created the donut as a teen while trying to feed a crew of sailors — and changed American culinary culture forever.
Hanson Gregory, an American, claimed to have invented the ring-shaped doughnut in 1847 aboard a lime-trading ship when he was 16 years old.
Hertfordshire can claim to be the birthplace of the doughnut... A recipe for “dow nuts” appears in The Recipe of Book of Barnoness Dimsdale c. 1800. Baroness Elizabeth Dimsdale lived in Hertford, to the east of St Albans, and the recipe in her handwritten book was thought to have been the earliest known recipe.
So which spelling is correct: doughnut or donut? Well, both are actually fine to use in Australian English. While the spelling 'donut' has typically been regarded as an American spelling, it was made popular in Australia through advertising.
Break 'donut' down into sounds: [DOH] + [NUT] - say it out loud and exaggerate the sounds until you can consistently produce them.
Australian Eating Habits
Australians tend to eat three meals a day: Breakfast – eaten in the morning is either light and cold (cereal, toast, coffee) or heavy and hot (bacon, eggs, sausages, fried tomato)
On the 21st of January in 1993, Hemstrought's Bakeries, Donato's Bakery, and radio station WKLL-FM made a record-breaking donut. In Utica, New York, representatives from these two bakeries came together to make a giant 3,739 pounds 16ft wide donut. To this day, this is the largest donut ever made.
To fully cook the insides of the dough, the dough would have to stay in the oil for a longer time, which would lead to the outsides becoming burnt. Punching a hole in the middle of the dough, however, allows the insides and the outsides to cook evenly, creating a perfect donut.
Introducing ~doughnicorns~, the magical combination of unicorns and doughnuts. Doughnicorns are doughnuts decorated with eyelashes, a unicorn horn, flowers, and sprinkles. Like unicorn cakes (and every other unicorn food trend), they're taking over Instagram.