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To: cinives
The actual spelling is 'doughnuts'. In the big squadron I was in, somebody called them dognuts.

Then 400 people started calling them dognuts. Then on our day off, we would go to a bar (which is really a restaurant in Spain). "Cafe con leche una dognut, por favor." We said that in English, pastries are called dognuts. So, eventually, Spanish restaurants had dognuts on their breakfast menu. Botine's in Madrid had them on their menu. For a week. They eventually found out guys from Torrejon Air Base pulled off a prank, and those people looked at us somewhat funny when we stopped by again:) Amairicans!

That's the history of 'dognuts'.

227 posted on 02/15/2007 8:41:25 PM PST by BobS
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To: BobS

That's a good story. Thanks for sharing ...


228 posted on 02/16/2007 4:31:38 AM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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