How the Doughnut Hole Came to Be

1. How the Doughnut Hole Came to Be By: Zackery J.

2. Hanson Gregory was born in 1832 in Camden, Maine, and died in 1921. He is buried in the Sailors’ Snug Harbor Cemetery in Germantown, Maine. During the eighty-nine years that Hanson Gregory lived, he spent many of them at sea as a captain. A legend says that is where he invented the doughnut hole.

3. OPTION 1 One night Captain Gregory was sailing on the ocean when he wanted a fried cake. He asked his chef to make him one, but the chef accidently put too much water in the dough. When he gave Captain Gregory the fried cake the middle was all soggy. He asked the chef if he could cut out the middle of the fried cake. He thought it was very helpful because it saved him on dough and made it easier for the chef to make. When he got back to the dock he told everybody about the hole in the middle of the fried cake. Then the stores heard about the hole in the middle of the fried cake, and they started selling it with a hole in the middle. And that’s how the doughnut hole began.

4. OPTION 2 One night he was eating a fried cake when a violent storm suddenly arose. Captain Gregory needed both hands to steer the ship so he shoved the cake over one of the spokes of the ship’s helm. Without thinking, he invented the doughnut hole. When Captain Gregory realized what he had invented, he was pleased. The centers of fried cakes were always unpleasantly soggy, so removing the center definitely improved the cakes. After the storm, Captain Gregory ordered the ship’s cook to begin making fried cakes with a hole in the middle.

5. Another less interesting story says that when Gregory was a kid his mother would make fried cakes. Since he disliked the soggy centers, he simply suggested she remove them. Mrs. Gregory tried her son’s idea and it worked. Today over $750 million worth of doughnuts are sold each year. That’s a lot of doughnut holes!

6. Is it Option 1 or Option 2???

7. The Answer is...

8. #1