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You say doughnut, I say donut. However you spell it, there aren't too many people who would turn down one of these tasty treats, whether you're a Dunkin' Donuts fan or you're firmly positioned in the Krispy Kreme camp. But do you know what type of doughnut to choose if you're counting calories -- or should you just get a low-fat muffin instead? The answers might surprise you.
Krispy Kreme has been around longer than Dunkin' Donuts.
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Krispy Kreme, which started in 1937, beat Dunkin' to the doughnut biz by 11 years.
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almost fact: They were both founded in 1942.
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A German immigrant named Adolph Levitt created the first doughnut machine.
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almost fact: Levitt was Russian.
Adolph Levitt , a Russian living in New York City, invented a doughnut machine in the 1920s to keep up with neighborhood demand for his product.
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There are many more Dunkin' Donuts locations than Krispy Kremes.
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Dunkin' Donuts has Krispy Kreme beat by a mile on this one. At the end of 2008, there were 8,835 Dunkin' Donuts stores worldwide, as opposed to 360 for Krispy Kreme.
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almost fact: Dunkin' Donuts has 50 more locations.
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The original name of Dunkin' Donuts was Copper Kettle.
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almost fact: It was Open Kettle.
Dunkin' Donuts was founded in 1948 as Open Kettle in Quincy, Mass. Today, there's a Dunkin' Donuts on every single corner in the Boston area. (Just kidding, but it does seem that way sometimes.)
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Krispy Kreme produces enough doughnuts in a week to stretch from New York City to Denver.
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almost fact: Nope, you could drive all the way to Los Angeles on that doughnut road.
Krispy Kreme sells 7.5 million doughnuts a day -- in a week, you'd have enough to reach from NYC to LA.
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Krispy Kreme doughnuts are a little healthier than Dunkin' Donuts.
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It's a wash. The Dunkin' Donuts glazed donut has 20 more calories than the Krispy Kreme Original Glazed, but 3 fewer fat grams.
almost fact: They're actually a lot healther -- like 100 fewer calories per doughnut.
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If you're at Krispy Kreme, the chocolate iced custard filled doughnut is the one to steer clear of in terms of calories.
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almost fact: The biggest calorie-bomb is the apple fritter.
The chocolate iced custard filled isn't great at 300 calories, but the apple fritter has 380.
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If you're counting calories but really want a Dunkin' Donut, avoid the blueberry cake donut at all costs.
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almost fact: Beware the blueberry crumb donut.
The blueberry crumb donut has about twice the calories (470) and more fat (14 grams) than most Dunkin' Donut varieties. The French kruller is another killer.
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The Dunkin' Donuts glazed donut is actually a healthier choice than the low-fat blueberry muffin.
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Shocking, but true. The glazed donut has 220 calories and 9 grams of fat, while the low-fat muffin packs 450 calories and 10 fat grams. (The regular blueberry muffin has 510 calories and 16 grams of fat.)
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The donut has less fat and calories than the regular blueberry muffin, but not the low-fat version.
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If you're trying to be "healthy" at Dunkin' Donuts and can't decide between the glazed donut and glazed cake donut, pick the glazed cake donut.
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The regular glazed donut has 100 fewer calories and half the fat grams of the glazed cake donut.
It doesn't matter -- they're about the same.
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Canadians consume the most doughnuts per capita, and Canada has the most doughnut stores per capita.
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Yep, Canadians can devour some doughnuts.
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almost fact: It's actually India.
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Krispy Kreme makes more than $1 million a day from the sale of Original Glazed doughnuts alone.
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Assuming each Original Glazed costs 79 cents, Krispy Kreme rakes in about $1.5 million from them every day.
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almost fact: It's more like $3 million a day.
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Krispy Kreme uses the equivalent of 145 elephants in doughnut sprinkles every year.
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Krispy Kreme goes through a million pounds of sprinkles every year, which is indeed equal to the weight of about 145 elephants.
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almost fact: It's actually only 100 elephants.
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Doughnuts became popular in the United States after soldiers ate them during World War II.
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almost fact: It was World War I.
During World War I, the Salvation Army cooked doughnuts in garbage pails and served them to soldiers on bayonets.
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When President John F. Kennedy tried to say "I am a Berliner" in German in front of the Berlin Wall in 1963, he said "I am a jelly doughnut" by mistake.
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Although "Berliner" does have two meanings , based on the context, it's pretty clear that Kennedy was not calling himself a jelly doughnut.
almost fact: It wasn't a doughnut -- "Ich bein ein Berliner" can mean "I am a roast beef sandwich" or "I am a Berliner."
Although "Berliner" does have two meanings , based on the context, it's pretty clear that Kennedy was not calling himself a jelly doughnut.
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National Doughnut Day is on the first Friday in June.
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June it is. Next time it comes around, head to your local doughnut shop for a freebie!
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almost fact: It's the first Saturday in August.
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The glazed doughnut is twice as popular as any other type of doughnut.
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Actually, glazed is almost three times as popular as any other kind of doughnut.
almost fact: Glazed is just barely more popular than chocolate glazed.
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Café du Monde in New Orleans is famous for serving a doughnut variation called the baynette.
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almost fact: It's called a beignet.
Café du Monde has been serving up the square, French-style beignets since 1862.
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The largest doughnut ever made was actually created from 90,000 individual doughnuts.
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In 2007, as part of the celebration for "The Simpsons Movie" in Sydney, Australia, 90,000 doughnuts were fit together to make the world's largest doughnut.
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almost fact: It took "only" 50,000 doughnuts.
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Krispy Kreme Doughnuts went public in 2000 and had doubled its stock price by the end of 2001.
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almost fact: The stock price quadrupled.
Krispy Kreme really timed its IPO right. Stock prices quadrupled by the end of 2001, and earnings grew 49 percent in 2002.
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