That horrible feeling of choking on a doughnut and nobody helping because they assume you're a maniac.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.

Oh, no!  "It's not all coffee and doughnuts."  From Together magazine, 1968.

A donut really can be divine, and here's their secret: "doughnut haloes."  From The Link, 1966.

From Good Housekeeping's Best Book of Fun and Nonsense, illustrated by George Wilde.

Today's very tiny donut is from Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1949.

Not every flying donut one sees is necessarily a UFO -- one's eyes may simply be glazed.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.

"Keep your eye upon the donut and not upon the hole."  From Elizabethtown's 1971 yearbook.

Previously, we compared the weight of a fresh donught hole to a dessicated donut hole.  Here are the suprising results.

From The Judge, 1920: "Behold the hole in the doughnut!  It remains the centre of distraction and you can't swallow it, hide it or give it away.  It's only a little thing but before it will give up, a man many times its size has to take off his shirt before he can make it let go."

You don't have to choose; you can have both!  "Doughnut life-preservers and a poetical horse."  From Andy's Adventures on Noah's Ark by Douglas Zabriskie Doty, 1902.

"Hauling in the doughnut."  From Andy's Adventures on Noah's Ark by Douglas Zabriskie Doty, 1902.

From c. 1890.

"The doughnut squabble."  From Forest Glen by Elijah Kellogg, 1877.

Here's a precursor to Doughnut King Ted Ngoy, from Montana Wesleyan's Prickly Pear yearbook, 1917.  (For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.)

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook: