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SOLERA DIAMOND VALLEY | JUNE 2019 5 LIFESTYLE DIRECTOR REPORT By Richard Booth, Lifestyle Director Friday, June 7 is National Doughnut Day and although we've been gobbling down doughnuts by the baker's dozen for years, most of us don't know that much about their delicious history. Here are five tasty facts about the iconic pastry. 1. OVER 10 BILLION DOUGHNUTS ARE MADE IN THE U.S. EACH YEAR. The American doughnut industry is huge, with numerous fast food chains dedicated to their production. Canada, meanwhile, produces fewer doughnuts (approximately 1 billion per year), but with its lower population, actually has the most doughnut shops per capita of any country in the world. 2. THERE ARE 10 PEOPLE LIVING IN AMERICA WITH THE LAST NAME "DOUGHNUT" OR "DONUT." At least that was the total in 2011. It's unclear whether "Doughnut" was their given last name, or whether they changed it out of passion for the pastry. Meanwhile, 13 people have the first name "Donut," making it the 245,396th most popular name in the United States. 3. A NEW ENGLAND SHIP CAPTAIN CLAIMED TO HAVE INVENTED THE HOLE IN DOUGHNUTS. Elizabeth Gregory, mother of 19th-century ship captain Hanson Gregory, would famously make fried dough pastries for her son and his crew to take on their voyages. Though the elder Gregory may have been an early doughnut innovator (she packed the pastries with nuts, and flavored them with cinnamon and nutmeg), it was Captain Hanson Gregory who claimed to have invented the actual doughnut hole, calling it "the first doughnut hole ever seen by mortal eyes." 4. THE FRENCH USED TO CALL THEIR DOUGHNUTS "NUN'S FARTS." The airy fried dough fritters — slightly different from the American circular doughnut — are called pets de nonne in French, which translates to "nun's farts." 5. DOUGHNUTS WERE SERVED TO SOLDIERS DURING World War I. During World War I, Salvation Army workers would bring soldiers doughnuts and coffee in the trenches of France to cheer them up and remind them of home. To celebrate international doughnut day on June 7, the administration office will be providing doughnuts at the coffee station in the Lodge Lobby at 8 am. Please come have a doughnut with us and celebrate this delicious day. "To celebrate international doughnut day on June 7, the administration office will be providing doughnuts at the coffee station in the Lodge Lobby at 8 am."