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[[File:Donut - Over-Nite Sensation.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Album cover of ''[[Over-Nite Sensation]]'', artwork by [[David McMacken]].]]
[[File:Joe's Garage sleeve.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Inside sleeve of ''[[Joe's Garage]]'', designed by [[John Williams]].]]

'''Donuts''' frequently appear in Frank Zappa's work, as part of his [[Conceptual Continuity]]. They are usually Winchell's donuts.

==References to donuts in Frank Zappa's work==
* On the cover of ''[[Over-Nite Sensation]]'', a donut is depicted.
* ''[[Pygmy Twylyte]]'': ''"Crankin' an' a-coke'n in the Winchell's do-nut Midnite"''
* In the photo collage artwork of ''[[Joe's Garage]]'', a donut can be seen.
* ''[[Joe's Garage (Track)]]'': ''"One of our friendly counselors gave him a donut and told him to stick closer to church-oriented activities..."''
* In the music video of ''[[You Are What You Is (The Track)]]'', Frank Zappa sticks a donut on the hood of a Ku Klux Klan member.
* ''[[No Not Now]]'': ''" Coupla donuts 'n some cowboy music fix ya right up!"''
* ''[[The Blue Light]]'': ''"You also go to Winchell's Doughnuts"''

==Frank Zappa about donuts==
'''[[Den Simms]]: ''"Somehow, I get struck by the impression, I don't know why, but perhaps those people on the other side of the Iron Curtain might be more respective to what might be thought of as some of the more arcane aspects of your music, that our type of living here in places like America and in Western Europe might have made people to bland to be able to deal with.'''

'''Frank Zappa''': ''"Yeah."''

'''Den Simms''': '''"Maybe those people are so hungry, that they might be able to look at that in a different manner, and be able to appreciate it without all the other influences."'''

'''Frank Zappa''': ''"They can't really appreciate it, because they don't really know what I'm talking about. You can't give 'em a song like "[[The Blue Light]]" and have 'em understand what "Winchell's Donuts" means."''

- ''[[They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 2]]'', [[Den Simms]], [[Eric Buxton]], [[Rob Samler]], [[Society Pages (The Magazine)|Society Pages (US)]], June 1990.

==See also==
* [[Muffins]]

[[Category:Conceptual Continuity]]

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