If you didn't know today is National Doughnut Day! It comes every year on the first Friday of June. Why Friday, why June? I don't know. But any day that is an excuse to eat donuts is good in my book.
The donut or doughnut (I prefer donut, it appears more aesthetically pleasing to me) comes in two types - the torus-shaped ring donut and the filled donut, a flattened sphere injected with jam, cream, custard or any other sweet filling you can think of. Once shaped and filled these doughy babies are dropped into deep-fried oil, where they make their transformation into the delicious snack we all know and all should love.
Where donuts come from no-one exactly knows. Their sacred history is full of holes (hahaha. Get the pun?). Some claim Dutch settlers to North America invented them. But then there is America's version of the girl at the reunion who claims to have invented post-its notes, Hanson Gregory, who claims to have invented the ring-shaped treat aboard a lime-trading ship when he was 16. He obviously wasn't a very popular kid though because no-one would back him up.
Though many associate donuts with Americans and fat, sluggish cops, it is the Canadians that consume the most donuts and whom have the most donut stores per capita. I guess Americans just get more attention because they are louder and resemble donuts more.
 Chocolate cream donut innards
As I said in Electric Satori, I am extending National Doughnut Day to NZ. Why should the Americans have all the fun? Of course, the celebration had to include the consumption of donuts so I made my way to Dunkin Donuts. I selected the traditional sugared donut and a chocolate cream donut to accompany the mini donuts my mother had already brought to celebrate the occasion.
The sugared donut, golden and delicately dusted with sugar; it was light and airy. The dough collapsed with every bite, then slowly sprang back. It tasted sweet, but not too much so. You could still taste that classic dough taste. This is the kind of donut you could eat a lot of.
The chocolate cream donut was my favourite out of the two because it was much more decadent. You couldn't eat a lot of these. The chocolate ganache filling was sweet, rich and creamy. It oozes out of its doughy home and I utter a delighted "mmmm" as the chocolate melts in my mouth. I lick the powdered sugar from my fingers with great satisfaction. It was gone too quickly, but then I only half of each donut. Not a bad lunch though.
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