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🦋 Dollars to Donuts

I was thinking this morning about the phrase "I'll bet dollars to donuts that..." (Context: I was walking down 5th Ave. thinking about breakfast and Sarge's corned-beef hash crossed my mind; it crossed my mind also that yesterday some guys from my office ordered lunch from Sarge's. My boss, who is orthodox, did not participate in the order; I thought of somebody saying "Sarge's is kosher" and myself replying "I'll bet dollars to donuts it's not.") "Dollars to donuts" used to be shorthand for really good odds, like 20 to 1 or so; but in New York currently, donuts cost 50 cents, so you are only offering 2 to 1 odds. Apropos of little, I thought "Dollars to Donuts: the Krispy Kreme story" would be a good title for a book about that company.

Note: I realize looking at this, "20 to 1 or so" is just something I made up -- anyone have an idea what a donut cost when this phase came into being?

posted morning of Wednesday, March third, 2004

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