Doughnut

A doughnut is a type of deep fried dessert food made out of dough or batter.

"Doughnut" is the more traditional spelling, although its shortened form, "donut," is also acceptable.

Doughnuts are sold at doughnut shops, bakeries, or grocery stores.

Ring doughnuts are made by joining the ends of a long, thin piece of dough into a ring or by using a doughnut cutter.

It leaves a doughnut-shaped piece of dough and a doughnut hole from dough removed from the center.

A disk-shaped doughnut can also be stretched and molded into a torus until the center breaks to form a hole.

Or, a doughnut depositor can be used to place a circle of liquid dough (batter) into the deep fryer.

The two most common types of doughnut are ring doughnuts, which are shaped like rings.

There are also "doughnut holes" or "munchkins" which come in the shape of small balls.

The name for a doughnut shape is a toroid.

Researchers have noted that the size of the hole in a doughnut correlates with the quality of the economy.

Specifically, the worse the economy, the bigger the doughnut hole.

National Doughnut Day was not created by doughnut manufacturers.

It was created by the Salvation Army in 1938 to honor the "Doughnut Dollies".

Eating a doughnut a day can add an extra pound every 10 days.

The world's most expensive Doughnut sells for $100 a piece.

Ten people in the United States have the last name Doughnut or Donut.

Ninety-five people have the name Longjohn (the name of a long doughnut).

It was a jelly doughnut made in New York on January 21, 1993.

There are more doughnut shops per capita in Canada than in any other country in the world.