Rye Miles #13621 5,725 Posted July 29 I always wondered where the Police and doughnut mix got started. Any of you retired LEOs got the answer to this?? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 651 Posted July 29 Probably on those long night shifts with some good black coffee Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alpo 5,828 Posted July 29 I was thinking it was probably an easy way to get some sugar in your system, when your butt was dragging. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Black Angus McPherson 399 Posted July 29 Working midnights the only place open that had food was the doughnut shop. You either brown bagged it for your meal or you ate doughnuts and drank coffee. Angus Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Texas Lizard 1,014 Posted July 29 Which came first...The chicken or the egg???? Texas Lizard Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kid Rich 649 Posted July 29 It was definitely before 1970. kR Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pat Riot, SASS #13748 18,980 Posted July 29 Well, I don’t know but if you needed a cop in Redondo Beach CA back in the 80’s it was usually quicker to call Winchell’s than 911. Not kidding. The police had an unofficial substation there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pat Riot, SASS #13748 18,980 Posted July 29 2 hours ago, Black Angus McPherson said: Working midnights the only place open that had food was the doughnut shop. You either brown bagged it for your meal or you ate doughnuts and drank coffee. Angus Hmmm...sounds like this article. You nailed that one! https://time.com/4800386/donuts-doughnuts-police-cops/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John Barleycorn, SASS #76982 902 Posted July 29 The old Johnstown beat cops I worked with when I started in Johnstown 93 Would hit the all night donut shop around 3am for a donut coffee and a smoke. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Forty Rod SASS 3935 6,389 Posted July 29 3 hours ago, Texas Lizard said: Which came first...The chicken or the egg???? Texas Lizard Yes, absolutely. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blackwater 53393 4,899 Posted July 29 The egg came first!! The chicken is a mutant dinosaur!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Utah Bob #35998 14,581 Posted July 29 When did the first doughnut shop open? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 6,541 Posted July 29 2 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: When did the first doughnut shop open? Five minutes after the doughnut was invented. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 6,541 Posted July 29 Dunkin’ Donuts stores in Boston were very carefully planned. There is a police car with five minutes of any location in the city. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bgavin 1,275 Posted July 30 4 hours ago, Texas Lizard said: Which came first...The chicken or the egg???? Texas Lizard Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rex M Rugers #6621 309 Posted July 30 1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: Five minutes after the doughnut was invented. Heard a legend that the doughnut was invented by a girl who's sweetheart was a Pony Express rider , she formed them so he could grab one easier as he rode by. Good story , true or not. Rex Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rye Miles #13621 5,725 Posted July 30 Found this........... The earliest origins to the modern doughnuts are generally traced back to the olykoek ("oil(y) cake") Dutch settlers brought with them to early New York (or New Amsterdam). These doughnuts closely resembled later ones but did not yet have their current ring shape.[6][7][8] One of the earliest mentions of "doughnut" was in Washington Irving's 1809 book A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty:[9] Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast of an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog’s fat, and called dough-nuts, or oly koeks: a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, excepting in genuine Dutch families. The name oly koeks was almost certainly related to the oliekoek: a Dutch delicacy of "sweetened cake fried in fat."[10] According to anthropologist Paul R. Mullins, the first cookbook mentioning doughnuts was an 1803 English volume which included doughnuts in an appendix of American recipes. He also traces its origins to the oliekoek that arrived in America with the Dutch settlers in the early 18th century. By the mid-19th century, the doughnut looked and tasted like today's doughnut, and was viewed as a thoroughly American food.[7] Hanson Gregory, an American, claimed to have invented the ring-shaped doughnut in 1847 aboard a lime-trading ship when he was 16 years old. Gregory was dissatisfied with the greasiness of doughnuts twisted into various shapes and with the raw center of regular doughnuts. He claimed to have punched a hole in the center of dough with the ship's tin pepper box, and to have later taught the technique to his mother.[11] Smithsonian Magazine states that his mother, Elizabeth Gregory, "made a wicked deep-fried dough that cleverly used her son's spice cargo of nutmeg and cinnamon, along with lemon rind," and "put hazelnuts or walnuts in the center, where the dough might not cook through", and called the food 'doughnuts'.[6] Another theory on their origin came to light in 2013, when a recipe for "dow nuts" was found in a book of recipes and domestic tips written around 1800 by the wife of Baron Thomas Dimsdale,[12] the recipe being given to the dowager Baroness by an acquaintance who transcribed for her the cooking instructions for a "dow nu Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joke 'um 733 Posted July 30 If SJW rioters had a sense of humor, they would throw donuts at the cops. Ooooooooh, the IRONY! I can't watch!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
