For those of you that do not know, today is national donut day. National Donut Day honors WWI Salvation Army Volunteers. Lassies, as they were called, were women volunteers that would go to the front lines in Europe and cook food for the front line troops. The food most often cooked were doughnuts, or donuts. The first doughnut was made in 1917. It was commonly cooked with hot oil inside soldiers’ metal helmets. Hence the nickname given to American infantry men

As an annual holiday, National Donut Day started in 1938 by the Salvation Army and is on the first Friday June. The original purpose for National Donut Day was to raise funds during the Great Depression by honoring the WWI Lassies who had originally started cooking donuts. National Donut Day is now used by the Salvation Army as an annual fund raising event. This fundraising effort is usually funneled through local donut shops. Local donut shops give away free donuts soliciting a donation for the Salvation Army.

Donuts in one shape or another have been enjoyed by cultures throughout history. They have not always been they sweet ringed morsels that we think of today. They have also been used to hold meats or other foods. In the mid-1840s the donut as we know it began to be mass marketed. It would not be until the 1920’s that donuts as we know them would be produced on a mass scale. The donut as we know it today has changed very little. While the type and flavors of donuts have grown on a grand scale. So, as you celebrate National Donut Holiday say thanks to those WWI lassies that can be given the lions share of the credit for making them as popular as they are today.

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