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Posted by frame609 on 2005-06-08 04:49:59 +0000

Did you get this off of the Motorbooty calendar?

Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-06-08 06:24:18 +0000

Excellent question, Frame

I love all the food days : Fudge Day, Feta cheese day etc., and then June 18th "Watergate Day?"

Posted by tgl on 2005-06-08 13:54:08 +0000

No, I believe I first learned of National Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day from one of those informational placemats while waiting for my order at the Bridgeside Diner in Plymouth, NH (RIP).

Bridgeside (RIP) not Plymouth (RIP).

Posted by tendiamonds on 2005-06-08 14:11:57 +0000

Best god damned red flannel hash on the lot...

Posted by rladew on 2005-06-08 14:37:21 +0000

does boston creme count?

otherwise, Id have to say I am a sans jelly donut individual...
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Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-06-08 20:53:59 +0000

Just had a concord grape filled.
Dawn Bixtler -- doughnut eater, patriot.

Posted by tgl on 2005-06-08 21:03:42 +0000

In the strictest sense, boston creme does not count. We acknowledge your effort.

Posted by tgl on 2007-06-08 12:29:51 +0000

Bump.

Posted by tendiamonds on 2007-06-08 12:37:06 +0000

Anyone's <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/cp/moredetails.aspx?showBleed=false&ProductNo=58302744&colorNo=0&pr=F">birthday</a>?

Posted by tgl on 2007-06-08 12:38:52 +0000

Brilliant. Got into work sooooooo late today. People eat afternoon doughnuts, right?

Posted by cdubrocker on 2007-06-08 12:41:04 +0000

Oh, yes, and today I shall make it two.

Posted by Propagandatour on 2007-06-08 13:01:09 +0000

What we need is a national day of mourning for the cruller, which apparently you can <a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/food/articles/2003/10/25/with_progress_a_cruel_twist/">no longer get.</a> <p>How did I miss this?

Posted by Epoisses on 2007-06-08 13:21:01 +0000

We shoulda had a riot or something.

Posted by G lib on 2007-06-08 13:29:41 +0000

DAMN! And they've already retired the Plain Stick to no fanfare!!

Hey, PT, it's nice to have you.

Posted by cdubrocker on 2007-06-08 13:50:46 +0000

Dude, no way. I can't believe the plain stick is gone. The demise of the cruller was bad enough.

Posted by Propagandatour on 2007-06-08 15:26:30 +0000

I'm not familiar with the Plain Stick. Was it, well, plain? Maybe that's why it now resides in donut heaven. (Can you imagine: Donut Heaven?)

Posted by tgl on 2007-06-08 16:05:41 +0000

Overheard at Dunkin' Donuts: Medium iced coffee, extra cream, 5 sugars.

...actually makes more sense than the order I heard for _seven_Splendas™_.

Posted by tgl on 2007-06-08 16:06:32 +0000

I can't imagine how you missed that PT. I haven't had a cruller since the Millenium.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2007-06-08 16:38:50 +0000

The plain stick is a cruller which is not "crulled" (one imagines that the donut was named by a particularly uncreative dyslexic pastry-lover). A cruller is a delicious stick-shaped donut which is lovingly hand-twisted before being fried (baked?), creating peaks and valleys of donut-crispiness. The non-crulled cruller (or "plain stick") pales in comparison. No peaks, no valleys. Just a donut without the handy and fun O shape. Boo. And, indeed, hiss.

Posted by tgl on 2007-06-09 00:58:01 +0000

Fried.

Posted by tgl on 2007-06-09 01:13:46 +0000

June 8th has other significance too:

2007
<img src="http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/ap/Paris_Hilton.sff_CAMW101_20070608145703.jpg">
<a href="http://apnews.myway.com/image/20070608/Paris_Hilton.sff_CAMW101_20070608145703.html?date=20070608&docid=D8PKR3DG1">Nick Ut</a>

1972
<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/TrangBang.jpg">
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Ut">Nick Ut</a>


We've come a long way, baby. (HT: <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/06/maybe_al_has_a_.html">MFGR</a>)