# All hail National Donut Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 1, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-national-donut-day/623787 "2012-06-01T16:22:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-national-donut-day/623787/1 "2012-06-01T16:22:59Z")
June 1st is National Donut Day! > **[National Donut Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Doughnut_Day)** > > National Donut Day or National Doughnut Day, celebrated in the United States and in some other countries, is on the first Friday of June of each year, succeeding the doughnut event created by The Salvation Army in Chicago in 1938 to honor those of their members who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War I. The holiday celebrates the doughnut. Many American doughnut stores offer free doughnuts on the occasion. > National Donut Day started in 1938 as a fundraiser for Chicago's The Salvatio... I thought, what better and more appropriate place to share this information than right here on the Dope? So go to your favorite donut shop and celebrate. Most likely, they’ll give you a free donut. Heck, it may be busy enough you can go out of the shop and come back in for a second free donut with no one being the wiser. Or you can go around to all your area donut shops and collect a dozen of them for your coworkers. They’ll think you’re being extravagant and lavish. Only you’ll know the truth. Or do all this and keep them all for yourself. Call it a scavenger hunt. Bon appetit! ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-national-donut-day/623787/2 "2012-06-01T17:06:10Z")
Can I have a 32 oz cola with that? ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-national-donut-day/623787/3 "2012-06-01T17:09:52Z")
I’ll just have a teacup. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-national-donut-day/623787/4 "2012-06-01T17:14:06Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Can I have a 32 oz cola with that? Come to Missouri, my friend! Here our plains are outstretched, as are our pants, and our cups be always overflowing with carbonation! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-national-donut-day/623787/5 "2012-06-01T17:35:19Z")
32 US fluid ounce? That’s… mumble mumble… carry the two… almost a litre! Cripes! You guys live in movie theatres or something? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-national-donut-day/623787/6 "2012-06-01T17:36:40Z")
I donut care. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-national-donut-day/623787/7 "2012-06-01T17:51:33Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > So go to your favorite donut shop and celebrate. Most likely, they’ll give you a free donut I had to pay for mine. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-national-donut-day/623787/8 "2012-06-01T17:52:57Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I had to pay for mine. ☹ Must have been glazed and confused. ---
**Author:** ![lizlizliz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/db5fbb/32.png) [@lizlizliz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizlizliz)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-national-donut-day/623787/9 "2012-06-01T18:01:41Z")
I got a free donut with my coffee at Dunkin Donuts this morning. Not a bad way to start a Friday. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-national-donut-day/623787/10 "2012-06-01T18:08:05Z")
I got a free donut at Dunkin too, and I hardly ever go there. Just happened to have a break, and went in for coffee. ---
**Author:** ![mage-girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-national-donut-day/623787/11 "2012-06-02T03:27:20Z")
Did indulge in a donut today, from WalMart. No, it wasn’t free. Dangit!