One of these things is donuts. In particular donuts from the Japanese chain, Mister Donuts. I used to go there before school on my motorbike and meet my friends, Rich and Kurt, and we'd drink coffee, eat donuts and smoke cigarettes. Once we found a pube in one of our donuts and got a dozen free ones.
In my twenties, when I was working as a freelance illustrator, I used to go to Mister Donuts in Shibuya or Shinjuku and draw comics and illustrations while eating donuts and drinking ice coffee. My usual daily consumption was three donuts and two ice coffees. Some fine art was made on the donut drug!
For afficianados my favourites were: Coconut Chocolate, Old Fashioned, French Cruller and Angel Cream.
OMG - I want one now!
ORIGIN OF DONUTS - everyone should know this!
Donuts first appeared in the 16th century as deep fried cakes known as olykoek by Dutch immigrants who then brought it to American soil. Legend has it how the hole-in-centre came to be is credited to a New England sea captain named Mason Crockett Gregory (also known as Hansen Gregory) and his mother Elizabeth, who made olykoeken for her son’s sea voyages.
The centres of these donuts tended to not cook through the middle and to conceal this, Elizabeth would stuff nuts in the centre (hence one explanation for the name).
Apparently, Captain Gregory didn’t like the nuts nor the uncooked centres, and during one of his voyages, the quick-thinking Captain impaled his donuts on one of the spokes of his steering wheel – and voila! The modern-day donuts was born!
Below is a video of donut cannibalism.
DO NOT WATCH if you are easily shocked or offended!!