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Dunkers Muse Over Fashions In DoughnutsNational session to fix proper size of hole of doughnut for the 1942 season.By MARTIN KANE,United Press Staff Correspondent.New York, Oct. 23.—The doughnut stylists this year will change the caliber of the doughnut hole, Just as the fashion experts decree upswept or down-tumbling hair-dos.They have been doing It for years and no one has paid much attention. The standard doughnut of today, for Instance, has a regulation bore of seven-eighths of an Inch. A year ago the micrometers measured It at 13 116 of an Inch. In 1939 it was 15 | 16.No one, least of all the National Dunking Association, Is willing to offer a rational explanation. The association Is to meet In New York, October 27, and one of its sessions will decide on the proper size of the doughnut hole for the 1942 season. It has never been more than an inch and never under 13 116 of an Inch, so the chances are. If you want to bet, that it will go back in 1942 to the 1939 standard, 151 16. When the association has made its ruling the nation's doughnut-making machines will be rebored to conform.It’s Easy to Be Dunker.The National Dunking Association is composed of people who have been asxed If they want to Join the National Dunking Association and have replied Yes.” It claims a membership of more than 1,000,000, with 300 chapters In about 300 cities. The members orofess to believe firmly in dunking and are sworn to dunk whether anyone is looking or not. They have strong, but varying, opinions about the difference between a cruller derived from ‘he Dutch krullen,’’ (to curl) and a doughnut, (derivation obscure).At their meetings they usually wrangle about the origin of the doughnut and this subject Is due to come up at the convention again this year. Church-going dunkers believe that a Maine mariner, the late Captain Hanson Gregory of Camden. Maine, first showed his mother how to punch a hole in the center of the doughnut, thereby permitting the heat of the frying fat to penetrate evenly through the dough. Previously doughnut centers had been raw and soggy.Cape Cod I1m Legend.A splinter group this year Is challenging the plan of the association to ,*rect a statue In honor of Captain Gregory and organize a pilgrimage to Camden. Left-wing thought, led by a New England historian, one Henry Ellis, of Hyannls, Massachusetts, is that an unknown Cape Cod Indian made the first doughnut hole, shooting his arrow through a fried cake while aiming at a Cape Cod housewife who was holding a bunch of roundcakes. fdie Is believed to have perpetuated her narrow escape in her future cooking. This legent Is undocumented.Otherwise the convention Is expected to go its usual way, revising accepted dunking procedure to authorize, In the Interests of national defense, a V for Victory” dunk brought to this country by British American Ambulance Corps workers. The British dunk Is done by grasping the doughnut with the pinky, thumb and fourth finger, using the remaining two to form a “V.”
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Brookfield Argus
Brookfield, Missouri, US
Thu, Oct 23, 1941
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