Fun Facts About Doughnuts

Here's some donut trivia to tuck away for sharing over
a cup of coffee and a donut, of course.

Donut trivia #1 Ernest Hemingway included donuts in a story called "The Mercenaries." And Gertrude Stein used "the hole in the donut" to metaphorically describe the inner beings of people.

Donut trivia #2 Some economists claim that you can judge the health of the economy by looking at the size of the hole in a donut. When times are good, more dough is used - hence, the hole is smaller.

Donut trivia #3 According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the record for donut eating is held by a man named John Haight, who consumed 52 ounces of donuts (about 26 average donuts - or 20 Tom and Son's donuts) in just over six minutes in 1981.

Donut trivia #4 The largest doughnut ever made was an American-style jelly doughnut weighing 1.7 tons (3739 lbs), which was 4.9 m (16 ft) in diameter and 40.6 (16in) high in the center. It was made in Utica, New York, USA on January 21, 1993

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