Happy National Doughnut Day! Free Doughnuts at Dunkin'

As you no doubt know, today is National Doughnut Day. We've been looking forward to this ever since we got a press release from Dunkin' Donuts five minutes ago! Apparently, it's a real thing? Observed on the first Friday in June, it was originally celebrated by the Chicago Salvation Army in 1938 to honor women who served donuts to soldiers in WWI.

Today participating Dunkin' Donuts locations will be giving out one free doughnut with the purchase of any beverage (limit one per customer). We spent some time calling around to various locations, and the only one that picked up was the Dunkin' at First Ave and Stuy Town, where they'll be running the deal until midnight. Out of curiosity we called around to other doughnut purveyors; the owner of the ever-seductive Peter Pan Donuts told us she didn't know it was National Doughnut Day, and promptly apologized. At the Donut Plant, we asked the manager how they were observing the holiday, and he declared, "We're celebrating National Doughnut Day by selling as many doughnuts as possible!"

And Dunkin' Donuts just announced the winner of its second annual "Create Dunkin's Next Donut" contest. From nearly 90,000 donut creations submitted online, a dozen finalists traveled to Dunkin' Donuts University (yes, also a real thing!) in Massachusetts to compete in a bake-off competition.

The winner is the "Monkey-see Monkey-donut," a bananas foster-filled donut with chocolate icing, topped with Reese’s® Peanut Butter shavings, created by Rachel Davis, right, of Sharon, Massachusetts. Davis gets a $12,000 grand prize and will see her winning doughnut sold in participating Dunkin' Donuts "restaurants" nationwide. It sounds appetizing, but we're still dying to try Dunkin's Wasabi Cheese and Seaweed Cheese doughnut (a real thing as well!).

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By John Del Signore in Food on June 4, 2010 10:20 AM

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John L

She can't work at Dunkin Donuts (or CitiBank) it would be too distracting for the other employees.

militza

not gonna eat a doughnut but am going to sit around in my undergarments eating food. heehee. homer has the right idea.

JenChungsBaby

DD used to actually be good. Now their donuts taste like they were cooked two days ago in a factory off the Jersey Turnpike.

sexisicilian

Ditto; Krispy Kreme is beta:)

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

LOL, she isn't a real employee but commercial model. Anyone who visited that shit hole dunkin donuts knows none of their employees look like her. But most of the employees don't eat that shit either which is why they aren't as fat as the customers. The managers told me that they wouldn't eat those donuts because they how and what's made of.

Petey

She isn't a model, at least not for the purpose of the photo. She won some contest to design a new donut. It says it right next to her picture.

The winner is the "Monkey-see Monkey-donut," a bananas foster-filled donut with chocolate icing, topped with Reese’s® Peanut Butter shavings, created by Rachel Davis, right, of Sharon, Massachusetts.

youngpro

felix doesnt completely read articles, nor has he ever, ever been to the dunkin in sharon, ma.

theevilone

She's the girl who won the donut contest, not a model. She works in the mall in her hometown and lives with her parents.

Guest

ahh... that's what i get for not fully reading the article. pictures are deceiving, indeed.

eh, just another girl holding some donuts -- i could careless. and besides, sharon, massachusetts seems a little far for me.

and no, it had nothing to do with the fact that i'd actually be living a real joke, although it would have made me laugh uncontrollably as long as the relationship lasted. she's cute, but there're millions like her out there.

another dream, gone. another dream, tomorrow. hopefully. *sigh*

Radtard

Free doughnuts and Snooki at Dunkin'!?!

brb

dracula mountain

I'd put it in her doughnut...

Guest

hands off! she's miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine.

also, she's the hottest dunkin' donuts employee i've ever seen. imagine going out with her? infinite, literally, infinite joke possibilities there!

"i finally dunked her donut last night. he he he."

omg she's a gold mine. i'm even willing to show all of my desperation, once and once only!