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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HoLeChit" data-source="post: 3904313" data-attributes="member: 35036">Asians and donuts are a natural thing. Donuts are definitely an American food, in spite of being originally coined by the Germans and Dutch. The guy referred to as the “donut king” was a Cambodian refugee in the 60s or 70s. Something like that. He had dozens of stores and trained other Asians in the donut business. From my understanding it caught on from there. If I remember right I read that roughly 80% of donut shops in the US are owned and run by south Asians. That includes winchells and Dunkin’ donut franchises. It makes sense. As an immigrant, you tend to show up in a foreign country eager to learn, and eager to make money, but you don’t have the language skills to get by. Donut shops, nail salons, and dry cleaners are easy. You can go into any of those and get exactly what you want without saying a word. Or you can stumble through a conversation and still get what you need. You only need a limited vocabulary, a smile, and a strong work ethic to start out, and be successful. It’s also helpful that the operating costs are extremely low. Honestly, with the exception of Polar donuts, I haven’t had many donuts made by non-Asians that I thought were very good. Hurts Donuts is terrible. Krispy Kreme is only good when they’re fresh. I love going in and getting a hot donut, but I hate getting home with their donuts, because they’re never anywhere near as good as the hot one you got in store.</blockquote>

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