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WE ROUND UP FACTS ABOUT SWEET TREAT

★ TELLY star Danny Dyer has admitted our story about him putting his “c*** in a doughnut” at a bash was true, as we confirmed in yesterday’s paper!

But how much do you know about the delicious fried pastry foodstuff?

★ A recent survey found that three in 10 of us say a doughnut is our favourite sweet treat, with 51% favouring a traditional jam filling.

Here JAMES MOORE reveals some more bitesized pieces of trivia about the snacks…

1 Doughnuts may have originated in ancient Rome where people fried dough and put cinnamon on the top.

2 Dutch settlers are reckoned to have taken them to the US, while American Hanson Gregory claimed to have invented ring-style doughnuts aboard a ship in 1847 aged 16 using a pepper pot.

3 Historians think British cooks were also pioneers of the dish. Baroness Elizabeth Dimsdale recorded a recipe for “dow nuts” in 1800.

4 In the 19th century, American writer Washington Irving, author of The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, was a fan describing them as “balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog’s fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks”.

5 The French have a version called “pets de nonne”, which roughly translates as “nun’s farts”.

6 During World War One Salvation Army “doughnut girls” brought the sweet treat and coffee to American soldiers in the trenches on the Western Front in France.

7 The insult “you doughnut” is reckoned to have originated in the 1970s kids’ TV show Here Come The Double Deckers! which included a character who was always eating them.

8 The first doughnut chain, Krispy Kreme, was founded in the US in 1937, by Vernon Rudolph. Dunkin’ Donuts, founded in 1950, now serves 4.5million customers a day in 38 countries.

9 Cartoon character Homer Simpson is famously obsessed with doughnuts, asking: “Is there anything they can’t do?”

10 Actress Renée Zellweger ate 20 doughnuts a day to bulk up for her role in movie Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason. The record for glazed doughnut

11 eating is 49 in eight minutes by Eric Booker in 2002. Boffins say the perfect ring doughnut has a 11mm hole. Brits now eat over 1m doughnuts

12 a week. In the US, a whopping 10billion are made annually, but the Canadians actually have the most doughnut shops per head. Yanks usually spell

13 them “donuts” and there are 25,000 stores in the nation. There are 13 people in America with the first name Donut. And National

14 Doughnut Week, starting on May 18, has raised a whopping £1.1m for charitable causes in the UK.