Not your average donut…and not from France, either. Photo: Anna Man Michelson / Wikimedia
You didn’t misread that, and we’re not talking about the typical donut-shop “French cruller,” either. A U.S. customer has ordered 1 million frozen donuts from a French industrial bakery known for frozen beignets and donuts.
Presumably the U.S. customer, who was not named in the article that appeared in Le Figaro, is also in the mass feeding business, and has the facilities to thaw and sell the pastries. The bakery, Berlidon, is in the Gard region in the south, and exports to 32 countries. The million-donut order apparently came on recommendation of another U.S. client in Las Vegas.
The general manager of the company told Le Figaro “In the United States there are not many industrial bakeries like ours. In addition, we offer a smaller than standard sized donut purposefully geared towards the American market.”
Wait a minute! Hasn’t he seen those giant pastry things in the little stores and big highway stops? No industrial bakeries? Where will this all end…will we soon be shipping Sara Lee packaged croissants to France?
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