There's a good, century-long debate in The Times archives, apparently, over the difference between a donut and a cruller.
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OK, back to the donuts, with a slight detour: seltzer.
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'crusty wall street patrons' want food and drink but 'are bound to find fault' http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1908/07/19/104741112.html?pageNumber=14 …pic.twitter.com/aKFfTJ3Z2G
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'to hold the feminine patronage it is considered almost necessary to invent one new chocolate mixture yearly'pic.twitter.com/AAiX5QvdU8
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Men liked soda because, apparently, they could ingest them faster than a doughnut or piepic.twitter.com/M2yplqDcfs
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Donut math, from 1917 http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1917/12/16/102386839.html?pageNumber=50 …pic.twitter.com/PWGHdS3AtV
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1919: "what did you do in the war, grandpa?" "ate donuts." http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1917/12/16/102386839.html?pageNumber=50 …pic.twitter.com/ZfprQOzkPa
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$100 for the prettiest doughnut cooker from Dutchess County to make an appearance at the Hotel Astor in 1922pic.twitter.com/oCLpeE6ZK1
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any word on who won that? I grew up in Dutchess - would be interesting
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no further reference alas
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