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The Noble History of Scots and Donuts

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Thinking Scotland? Think donuts! Join Moe’s Donuts on Saturday, July 16 in Look Park for the 23rd Annual Glasgow Lands Scottish Festival! Bring the family and friends for a day of fun, music and sport – and of course, a variety of tasty treats including our indescribable signature donuts!

Now we know what you’re saying: “What exactly is the connection between poaching in the King’s Forest, Rob Roy, a 19th century New England ship’s captain, the hole in the donut and that dapper guy slinging batter under the Moe’s Donuts tent?” Read on as we connect the dots that bring clarity to this murky bit of donut history. Continue reading →

#tbt – Never Underestimate the Allure of Donuts

#tbt – One more for Donut Month

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One more for Donut Month 2014…not sure what year this was but guessing it’s during WW1. With little more than a pack on their backs and a M1903 rifle, our soldiers fought long and hard to keep the world free from tyrants. It is truly this sort of sacrifice that makes someone appreciate the little things, like a donut. So why don’t we all find a vet, thank him or her profoundly, and treat them to a coffee and donut.

One more for Donut Month

Salvation Army War Service, with donuts for our boys.

#tbt – Donut Month, 1945

#tbt – An American Donut Heroine

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From the United States National Archives:

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Image: Liz Richardson (left) and Mary Haynsworth with smiling GIs in front of their Clubmobile in Normandy. Liz sent the snapshot to her parents on June 4, 1945, noting that the “blur” in her left hand “is a doughnut. And it’s just as well that it wasn’t photogenic.” (Courtesy of James H. Madison)

National Doughnut Day started in 1938 when it was created by the Salvation Army to honor the women who served doughnuts to the soldiers during World War I. Doughnuts were back on the front lines in World War II.

Elizabeth A. Richardson, the woman on the left in this photograph, is standing in front of her Clubmobile, a single-decker bus fitted with coffee and doughnut-making equipment that drove around the England, bringing cheer to the soldiers stationed there. “I consider myself fortunate to be in Clubmobile—can’t conceive of anything else,” she wrote to her parents in World War II.

But like many of the young men she served doughnuts to, Elizabeth did not return home. She was killed in plane crash in July 25, 1945, and is buried in the American Cemetery in Normandy. You can read more about her story in this Prologue magazine article: http://go.usa.gov/d4k