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Albuquerque Closed in 2023 Donuts Gone But Not Forgotten

Rebel Donut – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)

Gil GardunoFebruary 18, 2018June 16, 202312:04 AM

Many years ago if someone proposed a wager of “dollars to donuts,” you might have been well advised to take it. The phrase “dollars to donuts” essentially meant the person proposing the wager thought he or she had a sure thing, that he or she was willing to to risk a dollar to win a dollar’s worth of donuts. Donuts weren’t worth much at the time (and they weren’t very good either) so winning a bet might result in being paid off by a baker’s dozen or so donuts. Today, if someone offers a “dollars to donuts” wager, the counter…

Albuquerque Closed in 2016 Donuts Gone But Not Forgotten Specialty

Duke City Donuts – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)

Gil GardunoMarch 16, 2013July 17, 20181:37 PM

If you love donuts (and who doesn’t), you might want to consider being just a bit more generous when you see the ubiquitous Salvation Army bell-ringers and their familiar kettles standing in the chilly winter air to solicit donations. The Salvation Army didn’t invent the first donut, but you can certainly credit much of their popularity to this philanthropic group. During World War I, the “lassies” in the Salvation Army prepared donuts for thousands of soldiers, an act which along with their compassion endeared the group to the American public. It also stimulated a taste for donuts which hadn’t existed…

Albuquerque Closed in 2011 Donuts Gone But Not Forgotten

GoNuts Donuts – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)

Gil GardunoNovember 20, 2010July 19, 20184:26 AM

Their Points of View. ‘Twixt optimist and pessimist The difference is droll; The optimist the doughnut sees – The pessimist the hole. – New York Sun, 1904 It’s almost deliciously ironic that the “Optimist’s Creed” references the oft-maligned donut. In recent years, donuts and their high-carb brethren have been damned and all but banned by the “nutritionally correct” who believe America should supplant these decadent orbs of sugary deliciousness with tofu, celery sticks, carrots and beef juice. Donuts went through a period in which they were nearly as popular as terrorist extremists at a New York City fire department party. …

Closed in 2012 Donuts Gone But Not Forgotten Illinois Specialty United States

Apple Haus – Long Grove, Illinois (CLOSED)

Gil GardunoOctober 12, 2010July 24, 20243:07 AM

In grade school back in the 1960s, such characters as Paul Bunyan and Johnny Appleseed filled my mind with wonder and awe as I learned to determine fact from fiction (a process I still employ when listening to nauseating political commercials which pollute the airwaves). My mind was a veritable tabula rasa (blank slate) upon which my teachers (and my incessant poring over the Encyclopedia) imprinted knowledge of legend, lore, myth and fact. Learning was a much more innocent process, not yet clouded with the cynicism wrought by historical revisionism based mostly on political ideology. Johnny Appleseed, it turns out,…

Albuquerque Bakery Breakfast Closed in 2012 Donuts Gone But Not Forgotten Specialty

Paradise Donuts – Bosque Farms, New Mexico (CLOSED)

Gil GardunoDecember 27, 2008July 22, 20185:41 PM

Though often boorish and crude, America’s favorite everyman philosopher Homer Simpson is prone to occasional bouts of insight. Who can argue with such Homeric sagacity as, “donuts, is there anything they can’t do.” At first browse that statement may appear clouded, make that glazed, but it’s a statement replete with credibility–and not solely with police officers. Cultural anthropologist Paul R. Mullins posits that one of the best ways to examine a culture is by looking at its eating habits and regional cuisines. He reasons that Americans don’t really have a culinary culture we can call our own, that the American…

Bakery Breakfast Closed in 2012 Donuts Gone But Not Forgotten New Mexico Specialty

The Hole Thing Donut Shop – Red River, New Mexico (CLOSED)

Gil GardunoOctober 1, 2006July 23, 201811:40 PM

A less optimistic man than I once lamented that the healthiest part of the donut is the hole, but you’ve got to eat the entire donut to get to it. To me, that’s a “glass is half empty” perspective on one of the most popular breakfast and dessert items in the world. With almost thirty percent of American adults indicating they are trying to control their diets, donuts have also been lambasted and their consumption decreased with the increase of cholesterol conscious consumers. Adkins himself might have given up his cholesterol denouncing diet had he found The Hole Thing Donut…