Spudnut

* And behold Palin struggling to unravel the confusion caused by her Sputnik and Spudnut remarks.

Happy Hour Roundup Greg Sargent 2011

But after this, for several minutes that we as a nation will never get back, you rambled about a bakery called the "Spudnut Shop," that doesn't want the government telling it how to operate, or something:

WTF Moments with Palin on the 'Race to Space,' Sputnik, and Spudnut Alexandra Petri 2011

Driver's father and uncle founded The Spudnut Shop in 1948, after spending $50 on a franchise and 100 sacks of spudnut flour.

Sarah Palin puts 'spudnut' shop in spotlight 2011

I am sure that, if I went to the Spudnut Shop in Richland, Wash., I would love the food and admire the industry of the people who have been making it work, without government assistance, for 60 years.

ComPost: Sarah Palin on the 'Race to Space,' Sputnik and Spudnut Alexandra Petri 2011

I am sure that, if I went to the Spudnut Shop in Richland, Wash., I would love the food and admire the industry of the people who have been making it work, without government assistance, for 60 years.

WTF Moments with Palin on the 'Race to Space,' Sputnik, and Spudnut Alexandra Petri 2011

Spudnut and shot back at critics who have taken her to task for the analogy.

Sarah Palin puts 'spudnut' shop in spotlight 2011

Even worse, it seems that Palin planned her rhetorical disaster, as she goes on to discuss the "Spudnut Shop," a bakery in Washington State that's succeeding without government support.

Sarah Palin's weird 'Sputnik' story Stephen Stromberg 2011

Ray met Maryann Burk in a Spudnut Shop in Union Gap, Washington, in the summer of 1955.

Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

Spudnut is the first to the Christmas tree, fishing out apples, as many as he can carry.

CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2009 2009

George Mathis: My grandmother had a Spudnut shop here in Logan, West Virginia in about 1952-1955.

Suitcase Is Emergency Crib 2006