Who invented the donut?

Answer 1

homer simpson... or, maybe the canadians.

Answer 2

The United Federation of National Police Officers.
Due to the heavy work load of Police Officers, they seldom get lunch breaks, so they invented donuts to have with their morning coffee, and hence would not go hungry when missing their lunch.

Answer 3

The donut was invented in Poland, which you would know if you grew up in Western New York with the enormous Polish population here.

Answer 4

DONUT (Direct Observation of the NU Tau, E872) was an experiment at Fermilab dedicated to the search for tau neutrino interactions. Even though the detector operated only during a few months in the summer of 1997, it was largely successful. By detecting the tau neutrino, it confirmed the existence of the last lepton predicted by the Standard Model.
Otherwise I donut know.

Answer 5

The person who took out the trash for the person who invented the donut hole.

Answer 6

The origins of Doughnuts by Tallyrand

The true origin of today's doughnut is among the most colourful of old, tall tales of the sea. Historians agree the doughnut originated with Hanson Crockett Gregory, a sea captain of Rockport, Maine. One version of the story tells how his crew encountered a terrible storm. While this fierce tempest raged, the ship's cook appeared bringing popular fried Dutch cakes to Gregory as he fought to keep his vessel on an even course. Then a giant wave struck and the vessel lurched precariously.

As it caught the crew off guard, Gregory slammed his cake down onto the spoke of the ship's wheel. When order was restored and the cake removed it had a hole through the middle. The central portion, which was sometimes (reputedly) soggy, had gone.

An alternative account names Gregory as the Captain of the good ship Frypan. In this version a number of his crew had eaten fried cakes to excess. Indeed the sailors were so sated that several fell overboard and drowned. Gregory was devastated. The fried cakes were banned. All agreed they were too heavy. In his anger the distraught captain poked holes in all the remaining cakes. Now they were not only lighter, but they resembled life preservers.

Whichever incident is closer to the facts, Gregory made his findings public and Maine seamen enjoyed the cakes with the holes. Ninety four years later (1941), a great debate was held in New York's grand Hotel Astor. Among its principle speakers was Gregory's descendant, F E Crocket of Camden, Maine. He threw cold water on the seagoing invention stories, pointing out that Captain H C Gregory was a mere fifteen year old when both events were said to have occurred. Were the dates wrong? Or was F E Crocket right? He believed that Hanson had simply told his mother to remove the centre of her fried cakes to rid them of the soggy bit in the middle.

Another delegate, Chief High Eagle, a Wampanoag tribesman, said his people created the doughnut when several of their arrows missed settlers, striking Pilgrim's cakes instead. In 1872 John Blondel of Thomaston, Maine, took out a patent on a spring loaded doughnut hole machine and by the Great War doughnuts were so popular that the Salvation Army sent them to American troops. Mass production began with a machine introduced by a Bulgarian immigrant; Arnold Levitt in 1921. After World War Two , Levitt founded the Donut Corporation of America.

Answer 7

no one really knows who invented the donut..there are people who claim like their grandparents invented it..but here is a site that has a bunch of info about the donut and such

http://www.usc.salvationarmy.org/usc/www_met.nsf/0/773A5B0EB7DCA46086256FCE005F7180?opendocument

Answer 8

Jack Palance

Answer 9

don't know who invented it but the cops keep eating em

Answer 10

Hungry cops???