Donuts on a string, an East Coast thing?

When you grow up in one region of the country and then move to another, you bring along food traditions that are completely unknown to your local friends. Realizing this is as disquieting as suggesting that what just happened is exactly like a movie that nobody has seen.

For me, this occurred last Halloween, after I’d hung donuts on a string from the top of a door frame for a party I was hosting. Apparently, this fat-laden East Coast alternative to bobbing for apples is not well known here in Kansas City, if it’s known at all. Until I scrabbled together an explanation with a Sharpie and printer paper, people wondered why half-melted chocolate Entenmann’s were dangling from the ceiling.