CLASSIC: "Vitamin Donuts" Were A Real Thing

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🗓️ 11 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Donuts: they're sweet, delectable and dangerous. Nowadays they're best known as a sugary snack or a nice accompaniment to a cup of coffee, but this wasn't always the case. In fact, for a few years manufacturers tried to sell them as -- believe it or not -- a health food. Join Ben and Noel as they explore the strange rise and fall of the infamous vitamin donut in this week's Classic episode.

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0:00.0	We've returned with a classic episode. We like to do a little intro and check in on these because we're going back to the archives and we're digging up something really weird from 2018.
0:12.0	You guys don't that guys guys? Yeah you know what I was just in
0:15.9	Athens Georgia over the weekend and shout out to a little cafe called
0:19.9	Cafe Racer. They do excellent breakfast biscuits. It used to be just a little shack kind of like on one of the very windy narrow country roads leading to Athens, Georgia, but now it is a going concern with a nice drive-through on
0:34.9	Broad Street in Athens, but they do potato donuts, which I believe are gluten-free
0:41.1	naturally they use potato starch instead of flour.
0:45.3	And they don't taste like potatoes,
0:47.8	they just, I think, are naturally gluten-free,
0:49.5	and they are delicious.
0:50.9	I'd never tried them before. Not necessarily infused with extra vitamins though.
0:56.7	Ah yes, yes. I love when people pronounce it vitamin. So, you know, for a lot of people, a baked good, be it a sweet or a savory thing, is kind of a go-to breakfast,
1:10.3	accompaniment, right? Especially if you are in a hurry, you might have your cup of coffee, and you don't want to have all that caffeine on an empty stomach, so you have like a nice little snack or something.
1:20.0	You might have seen the meme too, unrelated, they call it the Finnish breakfast, and it's just, it's like a cup of coffee or espresso and then a shot of vodka and a cigarette.
1:33.0	So the idea is in a spit tape.
1:35.0	I'm actually currently drinking a so good, so you,
1:40.0	energy passion fruit juice shop,
1:42.0	which is infused with 100 milligrams of organic caffeine,
1:47.0	plus 100% daily value vitamins B5 and B12. So vitamin infused things are still very much a
2:00.3	going concern. You know now it's more in the realm of juices or energy drinks or what have you, but maybe back in the day where we know things like bacon were essentially sold to the public as a must-have for breakfast. You're not American if you don't eat
2:15.6	bacon for breakfast. Shout out Edward Bernays. Marketing played a big role into creating
2:21.2	the kind of staples that we still think of today.
2:24.3	Yeah, exactly.
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