why are donuts called donuts???? just a stupid question :)?

Answer 1

The earliest known recorded usage of the term dates an 1808 short story [3] describing a spread of "fire-cakes and dough-nuts." Washington Irving's reference to "doughnuts" in 1809 in his History of New York is more commonly cited as the first written recording of the term. Irving described "balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks."[4] These "nuts" of fried dough might now be called doughnut holes. Doughnut is the more traditional spelling, and still dominates outside the US. At present, doughnut and the shortened form donut are both pervasive in American English. The first known printed use of donut was in a Los Angeles Times article dated August 10, 1929. There, Bailey Millard jokingly complains about the decline of spelling, and that he "can't swallow the 'wel-dun donut' nor the ever so 'gud bred'." The interchangeability of the two spellings can be found in a series of "National Donut Week" articles in The New York Times that covered the 1939 World's Fair. In four articles beginning October 9, two mention the donut spelling. Dunkin' Donuts, which was founded in 1948 under the name Open Kettle (Quincy, Massachusetts), is the oldest surviving company to use the donut variation, but the now defunct Mayflower Donut Corporation appears to be the first company to use that spelling, having done so prior to World War II.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnut

Answer 2

Go to mr.breakfast.com to find out the answer. I love donuts espically glazed and choclate frosted!!!!

Answer 3

i always thought they grew from a donut tree

Answer 4

because they are made from DOUGH, and the real spelling is DOUGHNUTS.... but has been shortened to donuts for simplicity

Answer 5

i think originally they were dough knots, you know knots tied in dough, and then they changed it to donut for short

Answer 6

I thought they originally had a wallnut in the center.....