The Military Origins of the Doughnut
- For all the joy a doughnut brings, fried dough is something you make when you don't have anything better around.
- Doughnuts' folksy cred may have reached its apex with the doughnut girls of World War One, Salvation Army volunteers who fried doughnuts for American troops.
- Hundreds of thousands of them were handed out near the trenches, and posters and tributes to these women's devotion to bringing a taste of home to soldiers abound.
- By the time the war ended, the doughnut became an ingrained symbol of home.
- The modern doughnut is seen as a dessert, but earlier varieties were much more rustic.
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