Celebrate National Doughnut Day, Friday, June 2 2017

Get ready folks! It's gonna be National Doughnut day on Friday, June 2 2017!

Do we really need to have a National Doughnut day? No, but it's doughnuts we are talking about over here. Any excuse to have a doughnut is welcome. They are so delicious. Especially when they are freshly made.

Now why is there a National Doughnut day? Glad you asked. 

Each year on the first Friday in June, people participate in National Doughnut or Donut Day.  This day celebrates the doughnut and honors the Salvation Army Lassies, the women that served doughnuts to soldiers during WWI.

In 1917, the original “Salvation Army Doughnut” was first served by the ladies of the Salvation Army.  It was during WWI that the Salvation Army Lassies went to the front lines of Europe.  Home cooked foods, provided by these brave volunteers, were a morale boost to the troops.

The doughnuts were often cooked in oil inside the metal helmets of American soldiers.  American infantrymen were then commonly called “doughboys.”  A more standard spelling is donut.

And there's your history lesson. Pretty cool. I didn't know about this. Glad I found out. 

So in honor of National Doughnut day I will be having a doughnut. And I will post some pictures of that doughnut in the comments below. I encourage other Steemians to post pictures of themselves and their doughnut eating experience as well. Let's have a Steemit Doughnut day. 

Mmmmm Doughnuts.....