Chocolate covered French cruller

A cruller (or Twister) is a cake-type doughnut cooked by deep-frying. A doughnut (also spelled "donut" is a sweet Deep-fried piece of Dough or batter. It is sometimes topped with plain powdered sugar; powdered sugar mixed with cinnamon; or icing. Powdered sugar, also known as confectioner's sugar or icing sugar, is a very finely ground form of Sugar. Cinnamon ( Cinnamomum verum, synonym C zeylanicum) is a small Evergreen Tree 10–15 metres (32 Icing, also called frosting, is a Sweet glaze made of Sugar that often also contains Butter, Water, Egg whites It is usually twisted (rather than round) in shape and unraised. The word comes from early 19th century Dutch kruller, from krullen "to curl". The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar Dutch ( is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people 22 million of which are from the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname Crullers are traditionally eaten in Germany and some other European countries on Shrove Tuesday, to use up fat before Lent. Shrove Tuesday is the term used in Ireland the United Kingdom Australia and Canada to refer to the day after Shrove Monday (or the more old fashioned Collop Monday Lent, in some Christian denominations, is the forty-day-long liturgical season of fasting and prayer before Easter.

It is most commonly found in Canada, New England and the Mid-Atlantic and North Central states of the USA, but it is also common in California. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page History See also History of New England New England's earliest inhabitants were Algonquian -speaking Native Americans including the The Mid-Atlantic States (also called Middle Atlantic States or simply Mid Atlantic) form one of the nine geographic divisions within the United States that California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean.

A French cruller is a doughnut made from choux pastry. thumb|right|180px|Mixing choux pastry dough for [[beignet]]s thumb|right|120px|Piping out the dough for [[beignet]]s Chou(x pastry, paste, or dough They are usually shaped like a fluted ring and have a light airy texture. Sometimes these are also simply known as "crullers", but they have little resemblance to the other kind of cruller other than that they are both types of doughnuts.

In 2003, the Dunkin' Donuts chain of doughnut shops stopped carrying traditional crullers, claiming that the hand-shaped treats were too labor-intensive, and couldn't be simulated with new machines for mixing doughnut batter. Dunkin' Donuts is an international donut and Coffee retailer founded in 1950 in Quincy, Massachusetts, U ^[1]

Tim Hortons^[2], and Krispy Kreme ^[3] still sell the Cruller, while Dunkin' Donuts only carries the French Cruller. Tim Hortons Inc is a Coffee -and- Doughnut Fast food restaurant chain Krispy Kreme is a chain of Doughnut stores Its parent company is Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc Dunkin' Donuts is an international donut and Coffee retailer founded in 1950 in Quincy, Massachusetts, U In place of the traditional cruller, Dunkin' Donuts now sells several variations of a substitute product it calls a "cake stick" which is a simplified, machine-made version of the more elaborately twisted hand-made variety. ^[4]

The term "Chinese cruller" is occasionally applied to the youtiao, a similar-looking fried dough food eaten in East and Southeast Asia. Youtiao, you char kway, or yau ja gwai, sometimes known in English as Chinese cruller or fried bread stick, Many cultures have dishes made by Deep frying Dough of one form or another ^[5]

In popular culture

• The use of the cruller as a comedic gag was originated March 29, 1967 by the "Kimball Gets Fired" episode of Green Acres. Green Acres is an American Television series starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City In this episode, United States Department of Agriculture county agent Hank Kimball loses his financial security and his chance to start a family, in part because he gets fired from his job and partly because he spends his life savings on crullers to go with the coffee served by the boss who fired him (played by the late Parley Baer, who also played the Mayor on The Andy Griffith Show and Chester on the original Gunsmoke). Hank Kimball was the fictitious county agent of the 1965-71 American television comedy Green Acres.
• In an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Once More, With Feeling"), the character Xander paraphrases the movie Magnolia with the line "Respect the cruller, and tame the donut. Fictional narratives (and works of art exist beyond their completion e " Once More with Feeling " is a musical episode of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in which a mysterious force compels Alexander LaVelle "Xander" Harris (born 1981 in Sunnydale, California) is a Fictional character in the cult Television series Magnolia is a 1999 American Drama film, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. "
• In an episode of Friends ("The One Where Joey Loses His Insurance") Chandler asks Joey, "Hey, will you grab me a cruller?". Friends was an The following is a list of episodes of the Emmy Award -winning United States Situation comedy Friends.
• Crullers were served by Aunt Em in The Wizard of Oz. The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical - Fantasy film mainly directed by Victor Fleming and based on the 1900 children’s
• In an episode of Daria ("Through a Lens Darkly"), Jane refers to Daria as a "twisted little cruller". Daria is an American
• In an episode of US Acres ("Unidentified Flying Orson"), Orson Pig becomes hysterical, ranting about aliens appearing in the forms of "crullers, croissants and bagels". US Acres (known as Orson's Farm outside the United States) is a Comic strip that ran from 1986 to 1989 created by Jim " Unidentified Flying Orson " is an episode of US Acres from the series Garfield and Friends.
• In the film Wayne's World, Wayne orders "coffee and crullers" as a hangover cure for a "partied-out" friend. Wayne's World was one of the most popular recurring sketches to come from the NBC Television series Saturday Night Live.
• The comic strip Get Fuzzy noted the demise of crullers at Dunkin' Donuts several times. Get Fuzzy is an American daily Comic strip written and drawn by Darby Conley.
• The comic series, Common Grounds, was originally published as the mini-comic, Holey Crullers, centering on a chain of doughnut shops called Holey Crullers (i. Common Grounds is a six-issue Comic book Limited series created by writer Troy Hickman and published by Top Cow Productions in e. , crullers with holes in them).
• The video game Psychonauts, Cruller is the last name of the demented Ford Cruller who suffers from problems with multiple personalities—his last name probably meant to evoke his twisted nature, like the twisted dough of a cruller. Psychonauts is a platform Video game created by Tim Schafer (known for several LucasArts adventure games such as Grim
• The sixteenth episode of Red vs. Blue is titled "A Slightly Crueller Cruller", in reference to the character Donut's new armor color: pink. Red vs Blue The Blood Gulch Chronicles, often abbreviated as RvB, is a Machinima Comic science fiction video series created

References

1. ^ Joseph P. Kahn, "With Progress, a Cruel Twist", Boston Globe, 25 October 2003. The Boston Globe (and Boston Sunday Globe) is the most widely circulated daily Newspaper in Boston and in New England, Events 1147 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
2. ^ Tim Hortons Snacks & Baked Goods
3. ^ Krispy Kreme Product List
4. ^ Dunkin' Donuts Product List
5. ^ "Chinese Breakfast" at About.com. Aboutcom is an online source for original information and advice and is among the top 15 US Websites ( Nielsen Online Spring 2008 Accessed 1 May 2008. Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor.