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First Donut Shop in America from June 23rd, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: But you had something for us. GNA.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we have the.
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  Speaker 3: Donut critic coming in, and I don't know what he's bringing.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't always bring donuts.
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  Speaker 1: I think today, I think today is bringing hot soup.
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  Speaker 3: But I read across this article about the first donut
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  Speaker 3: shop in America. Aren't you curious really about the first
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  Speaker 3: donut shop in America?
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  Speaker 1: They did they sell donuts?
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  Speaker 2: Well, something like that.
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  Speaker 3: The first donut shop founded by Anna Orlman in New
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  Speaker 3: York City in sixteen seventy three. The first donut shop
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  Speaker 3: was on Maiden Lane off Broadway, where she or she
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  Speaker 3: sold oily cokes.
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  Speaker 2: What or oily cakes?
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  Speaker 3: Oiley cokex is like the Dutch way of saying okay
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  Speaker 3: oily cakes. This was in the days before the title
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  Speaker 3: donut was officially made, but in sixteen seventy three, donuts
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  Speaker 3: would have been warmed into rough shaped, flattened doughnut balls
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  Speaker 3: before being fried to a perfect golden brown, puffed up,
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  Speaker 3: rounded out made of yeasted dough. The original recipe came
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  Speaker 3: from from Holland the oily cake. The origins of the
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  Speaker 3: Dutch doughnuts go back even further. As of sixteen fifty two,
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  Speaker 3: a Dutch painting shows a maiden holding a bowl filled
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  Speaker 3: with rolled fried doughnuts or oily.
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  Speaker 1: So were they cake? Were they flattened or were they.
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  Speaker 2: They were like doughnut, they were like donut holes, they
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  Speaker 2: were like balls. Yeah, and that the Dutch also brought.
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  Speaker 2: And I thank them for this.
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  Speaker 3: The the deep frying of the balls created fried all
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  Speaker 3: kinds of different fried foods.
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  Speaker 2: For people in the New World.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I think the Dutch for cleanser, cleanser.
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  Speaker 2: The Dutch was.
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  Speaker 4: A brand cleanser that was very popular, Dutch Boy cleanser.
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  Speaker 5: So when I have stints put in my heart, I
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  Speaker 5: should thank the dust and the Dutch.
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  Speaker 3: The Dutch didn't just bring donuts. They helped popularize deep
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  Speaker 3: fried foods. Here today we have deep friers, automatic donut cutters,
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  Speaker 3: But these luxuries were not available to the early colonists.
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  Speaker 4: Who first made a donut, who made a you know,
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  Speaker 4: a round thing with a hole in it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know. I'm still on this part right now.
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  Speaker 3: Donuts were made in a Dutch oven a This would
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  Speaker 3: have been hung over an open flame in a stone fireplace.
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  Speaker 3: As discussed, Colonists would likely have used lard to melt
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  Speaker 3: that down and then fried in.
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  Speaker 5: Oil lard darthy.
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  Speaker 3: They said the bakery was not like a shop that
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  Speaker 3: you would go buy a donut and sit there and eat.
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  Speaker 2: You would take it home and have it with your tea.
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  Speaker 3: There was no sugar used in the making of the donuts,
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  Speaker 3: although after they were made and fried, people would cover
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  Speaker 3: them in sugar ah.
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  Speaker 2: And have them on top. Let me see if I
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  Speaker 2: can scroll and find where.
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  Speaker 4: Who got the idea to, you know, make a hole
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  Speaker 4: in it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know we.
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  Speaker 2: Should put a hole.
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  Speaker 5: You know what this needs as a hole.
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  Speaker 4: And I wonder why reason I think there is?
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  Speaker 5: These are things that donut critics should know.
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  Speaker 4: It seems to me that I've heard the reason before,
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  Speaker 4: but I can't remember what it is. Let me see
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  Speaker 4: if because I know they used to you'd have a
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  Speaker 4: wooden peg and they would put donuts on this peg,
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  Speaker 4: stack them up on a peg, you know, with the
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  Speaker 4: h But I don't know if that's why they had
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  Speaker 4: a hole in it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Dutch boy was the paint. Old Dutch was the cleaner.
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  Speaker 1: Old Dutch was the cleanser. Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 3: And of course the Spanish and the Portuguese they had
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  Speaker 3: they had the churro in the sixteenth century.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, that's not a donut.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a donut. Let's see. Dutch settlers brought the
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  Speaker 2: early cake to New York.
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  Speaker 3: A recipe for fried dough nuts was published in seventeen
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  Speaker 3: fifty in England under the title how to make Hertfordshire Cakes,
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  Speaker 3: Nuts and pin Cushions. A recipe labeled doughnuts was found
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  Speaker 3: in this book of Recipes of Domestic Tips, written in
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  Speaker 3: seven boks fifty.
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  Speaker 4: That's the I mean, that's very informative. Why is it
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  Speaker 4: called a doughnut because it was shaped like a nut.
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  Speaker 4: It was like a ball, so I but still I
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  Speaker 4: still need to know who's the wise guy that decided
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  Speaker 4: or the wise girl that decided to make them round
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  Speaker 4: and put a hole in them.
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  Speaker 3: One of the earliest known literary usages of the term
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  Speaker 3: doughnut is Washington Irving in eighteen oh nine The History
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  Speaker 3: of New York described balls of sweetened dough fried in
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  Speaker 3: hogs fat and called doughnuts hogs fat. These quote nuts
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  Speaker 3: of fried dough. So maybe that's the word nut used.
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  Speaker 3: Is like Bill is saying it's a little round nut,
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  Speaker 3: So dough it's a little nut of dough.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Texters are saying the hole in the donuts is
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  Speaker 5: to ensure that the center gets cooked thorough.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes sense.
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  Speaker 5: Provides for more crust as well.
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  Speaker 3: Hanson Gregory, an American, claimed to have invented the ring
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  Speaker 3: shaped donut in eighteen forty seven.
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  Speaker 5: Hanson Gregory aboard.
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  Speaker 3: A Lime trading ship when he was sixteen years old.
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  Speaker 3: Gregory was dissatisfied with the greasiness of donuts twisted into
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  Speaker 3: various shapes with the raw center of regular donuts.
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  Speaker 2: He claimed to have punched a hole in the center of.
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  Speaker 3: The dough with the ship's tin pepper box, and to
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  Speaker 3: have later taught the technique to his mother, Elizabeth Gregory.
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  Speaker 2: She made wicked deep fried.
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  Speaker 3: Dough that cleverly used her son's spice cargo of nutmeg
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  Speaker 3: and cinnamon along with lemon rind.
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  Speaker 4: Another another legend about it claims that Gregory cut the
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  Speaker 4: holes in it in them so he could impale the
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  Speaker 4: donuts on the spokes of the ship's steering wheel while door.
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  Speaker 1: Gregory himself, however, late debunked this.
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  Speaker 5: No, that's your Captain, Homer Simpson.
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  Speaker 1: There, no, no, I didn't do that.
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  Speaker 3: Now, after all of this, I don't know what the
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  Speaker 3: donut CRTs bringing. Probably not donut.
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  Speaker 1: It's not donuts.
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  Speaker 5: He's bringing the ice cream that I request?
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  Speaker 2: Is that the salt?
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  Speaker 5: Salt and local local.
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  Speaker 1: It's the goat ice cream.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's it's goat cheese and made with goat's milk.
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  Speaker 2: Cheese ice cream, yes, well.
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  Speaker 5: And other flavors.
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  Speaker 1: Gina won't eat it.
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  Speaker 2: Is it all not? All of it is goat.
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  Speaker 1: No, but it's all made with goat's milk. Is that right?
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  Speaker 5: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 4: No, No, well, we'll learn it when he will learn
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  Speaker 4: what Gina will have and what she won't have.
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  Speaker 5: Delicious?
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  Speaker 2: I want a donut, is what I want?
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  Speaker 1: No, you don't know. There's still devil dogs over there.
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  Speaker 1: Still I have a devil dog.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right.
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  Speaker 1: I know it doesn't have any icing on it.
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  Speaker 2: A cupcake, I know that, all right,