cops/donuts meme

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/14/2007 10:49 AM, Dave Wilton wrote:
>I'd add to the "quick snack" idea. Many cops work at night and in many
>locales the only place that is open late into the night is the donut shop.
>Or the donut shop is the first place to open early in the morning, and the
>cops on-duty show up having not had anything to eat for some hours. The
>habit of going to the donut shop would stick with them when they rotate onto
>the day shift.

But which came first to the neighborhood -- the late night/early
morning donut shop, to which the cops were attracted, or the late
night/early morning cops, looking for an open donut shop?

Joel

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