Originally posted by Parallax I love Old Fashioneds (known around here as Norwegian Sour Cream) doughnuts. The only thing that compares is a cake doughnut from Wall Drug.
NO SPRINKLES on either. (The broken tooth story really is true)
Wall Drugs has great, no make that wonderful plain donuts. When we were there, I overindulged at the store, than continued to overindulge in the car as we traveled on.
Their flavour is reminiscent of a plain donut, an old city chain of restaurants offers in my burg. The restaurant company is Salisbury's. It used to be an kind of an old fashioned diner.
They were established in the early '30's by a guy who named the restaurant after the Salisbury steak. He made hamburgers for 5 cents (1931) and called them nips and also made these plain donuts..... that I occasionally wax eloquent about.
As an aside and in fact.... till McDonald's came up here in the '60's, no one in my area, called a hamburger a hamburger. They called it a 'Nip'. And French fries were called chips. Now that is all gone and it has come to just calling it a burger and fries.
Frankly, I like Nip and chips. But I digress.
I don't know the history of the Wall Drug donut, but I bet it goes back to at least the '30's. Both the Wall and the Salisbury donut taste similar to me, so I wonder if they have a similar, but not the same recipe. Some commonalities from almost a 100 years ago.
I like to think that my love of a good, plain donut is simply not about scarfing it down quickly...but that I also have an academic interest . However I do admit that scarfing it down, will always take precedence over pursuing the history of the donut.
Because that's the way I roll.