By now I suppose you know that today is a day to celebrate the doughnut.
I had one this morning, although I didn't realize how appropriate it was.
For a long time, I preferred the powdered sugar ones, but I now like a variety. If I have a batch of plain ones, I'll eat one with yogurt. Or I might smear Nutella (or a Nutella knock-off) on it.
More doughnut/donut thoughts:
I understand that Cambodians have taken over the donut shop business in Southern California. Here's a video piece on one such store.
The Germans have a jelly doughnut-like roll they call "Berliner". John F. Kennedy is supposed to have made a linguistic blunder when he called himself a Berliner in his famous speech in Berlin. An entry in Wikipedia claims otherwise, that what he said was acceptable in Berlin. That the Berlin audience understood his meaning, since they don't use that term for the roll. (It is used in elsewhere in Germany.) Well, whatever...
I didn't know that Kennedy's faux pas was an urban legend, I thought it was true. So when I spied a jellied roll labeled "Berliner", a couple years back, in a pastry case in the Bonn (Germany) train station, I had to smile. (Maybe JFK had a premonition he would be reincarnated as a jelly doughnut.)
Posted by raacluse at June 1, 2007 07:12 PM