Welcome back everyone 748 On our
Tuesday morning and back in 193,
the Salvation Army established
National Donut Day to honor the donut
lasses who risked their lives to
serve soldiers during World War.
To celebrate Donut Day,
the Salvation Army is holding
a donut eating competition.
It's going to be aboard the
USS Midway on Friday.
And here to tell us more is Donut Lassie
Pamela Lennon, along with David Lopez,
Director of Marketing for Bakem,
the sponsor of the event.
Good morning to both of you.
Thank you. All right,
so I want to start off with you, Pamela.
Tell us what's going to be happening.
Tell us First off,
about who the donut lasses were and and
how we're going to be celebrating them.
All right, well, the donut lasses were
Salvation Army volunteers that brought
Donuts and coffee to the soldies
on the frontline in World War O.
And I assume that this event is going to
go toward helping raise money for the
Salvation Army and fundraiser e.
What does the Salvation Army do
for people at home? You know,
I I assume people are used to me
bringing their donations to you guys,
but what other services do you provide?
We have a lot of services,
homeless services for families,
women and children and and men.
We also service seniors.
We have. Food boxes and we have
sites all over San Diego that
help people that are in need.
This is a very easy way for
people to get involved.
I imagine it will not be tough
for San Diego's to partake and
maybe some donut eating over the
course of the end of the week.
Here David, tell us about the
Donuts that we have here and
about the event on Friday
of course. So these Donuts of ce
come from compliments of Bake Market.
We are the largest bakery supplr
to 10s of thousands of bakeries
and donut shops across North
America and the preferred baker.
Supplier internationally as well
for bakeries or classic globe.
And what we brought here were
some Donuts from our own bakery.
We're based here in Los Angeles
and what we have here is the
classic glazed raised donut.
We have the patriotic red,
white and blue donut.
We have the Fruity cereal donut,
right? And then these ones look
like a little more special,
right? We got the s'mores
donut. Of course, we got the
flaming hot cheese donut as wel.
And then finally the chocolate
Raspberry golden donut.
So what makes your guys's Donuts special?
Well, we use only quality ingredients,
right? We supply top quality
ingredients including the flour,
the mix, the fillings, the icin,
the glaze and a little bit of big mark
magic to make it make it all ha.
I like it. You guys obviously dt
have to to donate, but you choose to.
You choose to be, you know,
a big part of this event.
Why is it an important thing for
your guys's team to be a part o?
Of course, we just love this
holiday because it brings Ameri.
Love for Donuts and love
for veterans together.
So what's not to love about it, right?
This is one of our favorite holidays and
so we've been partnering with the Salvation
Army proudly for the past 14 ye.
So to really promote this holidy
and raise awareness and
what's not to love, right, 14
years. That's a long time to be doing it.
And it's all culminating to Friy
right at the MSS Midway. So wha?
What's going to be happening? What does a,
a donut eating competition enta?
So is it as simple as it sounds? It is, but
it's not, right.
So it's a little bit of both.
We're going to have some of
the top competitive eaters
on stage at the USS Midway,
and so for a short few minutes
they're going to compete
who can eat the most Donuts,
and these are going to be similar Donuts.
The Glazed ring is where they're
going to go after and it's
going to be exciting time and
we just want everyone to come
out and really enjoy themselves.
It's going to be at the USS Mid.
Starting with 830, yeah,
that's some of the That's
exactly what it is, right?
Oh boy, it gets a little messy.
Not too much time to enjoy those Donuts,
but people can still enjoy the Donuts, right?
Can people come purchase Donuts as well?
Actually, they'll be free Donut,
so we'll have a few more
to keep it easy. Fake mark
customers at the event as well.
Setting up shop and passing out free Donuts.
And it's all in support of vetes
support and also just raising love for
Donuts and small business owners across.
This great country of course.
Which one are these ones?
The middle one, The flame
and hot cheese Donuts. OK OK.
I looked at it and I was like that can't
be flame and hot Cheeto dust on.
It is indeed. They look amazing.
Tell us where people can find
out more about your guys Donuts.
Absolutely. So you can go to bakemark.com
to get more information as to the Donuts,
but also you can go on donutdayg
to find out more information about the
event itself and how they can be a part
of the National Donut Day celebration.
And if people want to join on
the USS Midway, what time do
they come out and join you guys?
So we'll start taking visitors
as of 830, so admission is free.
So we want to encourage everyono
come out, bring the family over.
Mission is free from 8:30 till .
The festivities start at 9:30.
Oh, amazing. I love it.
I'm so we can smell these Donuts
And we're just soaking it all i.
Pamela, remind us where people
can go For more information on
the services that the Salvation
Army provides and all that.
Yes, San Diego Salvation Army, .
That's where you can visit Perft
and find out more information.
Thank you both for being with u.
Thank you very much.
I'm going to Chow.
I want to try one of these.
Please do. I'll flame and I dont
have your name on it in specifi,
but we will take a quick break.
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