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A Sweet History

Did you know that The Salvation Army invented what we now know as the donut during WWI? That’s right! In 1917, General John Pershing knew his soldiers would need encouragement to boost morale.

At his urging, 250 Salvationists, many of them women, volunteered to risk their lives at the front lines in France to set up rest huts. Unable to bake in these conditions, the women fashioned a bit of dough and fried it up to hand out to the brave young men.