Finding Sweetness in a Cupcake
12 April 2010
Customers line up at the Curbside Cupcakes truck in Washington
FAITH LAPIDUS:
Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus.
STEVE EMBER:
And I'm Steve Ember. To some people, they are nothing more than a harmless treat or a guilty pleasure to enjoy from time to time. To others, they are enemies of the public health in a time of what the World Health Organization calls a "global obesity epidemic." But one thing is sure: foods like doughnuts and cupcakes are a big business. This week on our program, we tell you about a few kinds of foods that some Americans find hard to resist.
(MUSIC: "Sugar, Sugar" / The Archies)
FAITH LAPIDUS:
Grocery stores in the United States sold almost half a billion dollars worth of freshly made doughnuts last year. And that is not all.
The Perishables Group is a consulting company in the fresh food industry. It says those doughnuts represented just sixty percent or so of all the doughnuts sold in supermarkets. And the sales total does not include all the doughnuts sold in specialty stores.
STEVE EMBER:
A doughnut is a round piece of fried dough with a hole in the middle or filled with cream or jelly. The traditional spelling is d-o-u-g-h-n-u-t but people often just spell it d-o-n-u-t.
A lot of places that sell coffee also sell doughnuts. But there are stores like Dunkin' Donuts and Krispy Kreme that make many different kinds of donuts. Some people call these "designer doughnuts."
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