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In 1847, a man named Hanson Gregory ignited a revolution in Fritter technology aboard his ship.

Captain Gregory recounted the origin story to the Washington Post in 1916,

expressing the problem with hotcakes and his perfect solution.

I took the cover off the ship's tin peppa box and I cut into the middle of that dough.

The first hole ever seen by Mortal Ice.

Captain Gregory had invented the doughnut.

For decades, this sugary confection had its uses, a lazy punchline for chubby cops or a trifling

bribe for office kitchen morale. But its holiest of utilities would come as a recurring

sermon illustration. In Rob Evans Emmy Award-Wanting Children's Video Series, the doughnut man.

Rob Evans grew up a carpenter and a child of the 60s and a child of divorce,

which gave him a heart for children's ministry saying, quote,

I think that the Lord allowed me to suffer as I did as a child to make me permanently sensitive

to the feelings of children. The premise is confusing enough, a doughnut repairman invites children

to his doughnut repair shop for doughnut repair club where they re-enact biblical parables,

sing songs about God's love and try to ignore the unhinged banshee whales of Duncan,

the sentient doughnut from hell. The doughnut man himself functions as a sort of antithesis to Mr.

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