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When you're a kid, the promise of a donut at the end of the week is pretty much the most exciting thing in the world.

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The rows of softly risen yeast donuts, fried to golden perfection. And then there are the cake donuts, topped with glaze or a glossy sheet of icing, cracked just a bit on the sides. Fritters? Bear claws? Old-fashioned donuts? Leave those for grown-ups. As long as they're buying the chocolate milk—preferably in the carton, the spout of which turns to a creamy mush before you can finish. Getting to sit across the table from your mom or dad, dressed down in their Friday work clothes, in the middle of the packed dining room of the donut shop, crammed like sardines into table-and-chairs sets that look like maybe they came from the flea market up the road.

And then, walking through the door at school with sugar breath, a little bit of icing crust in the corners of your mouth. Glorious.

With this in mind, my son and I started a new tradition. We're calling it Friday Donut Day, and the goal is to visit as many different donut purveyors around town as possible.

Independently, locally owned stores always preferred. The stranger, the better.

<a href="http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2012/05/friday-donut-day-series/535315_3192165800225_1148295116_32518714_1190502827_n/" rel="attachment wp-att-11195"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-11195" title="OK Country Donuts Tulsa, Oklahoma" src="http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/535315_3192165800225_1148295116_32518714_1190502827_n-500x666.jpg" alt="OK Country Donuts Tulsa, Oklahoma" width="500" height="666" /></a>

<a href="http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2012/05/friday-donut-day-series/550201_3243052752367_1148295116_32537201_1221046428_n/" rel="attachment wp-att-11196"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-11196" title="Ann's Bakery Tulsa Oklahoma" src="http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/550201_3243052752367_1148295116_32537201_1221046428_n-500x666.jpg" alt="Ann's Bakery Tulsa Oklahoma" width="500" height="666" /></a>

<a href="http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2012/05/friday-donut-day-series/564790_3286272472833_1148295116_32554070_701947076_n/" rel="attachment wp-att-11197"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-11197" title="Daylight Donuts next to Jim's Never on Sunday Tulsa Oklahoma" src="http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/564790_3286272472833_1148295116_32554070_701947076_n-500x500.jpg" alt="Daylight Donuts next to Jim's Never on Sunday Tulsa Oklahoma" width="500" height="500" /></a>

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So far on the tour we've visited:
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	<li>The Daylight Donuts Super Shop at Yale and the B.A.</li>
	<li>OK Country Donuts (<a href="http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/05/fight-at-donut-shop/" target="_blank">where I was in a fight once</a>)</li>
	<li>Ann's Bakery</li>
	<li>the Daylight Donuts next door to Jim's Never on Sunday at 21st and Harvard</li>
	<li>and this morning, Spudnut Donuts on Main Street in Sapulpa, just southwest of Tulsa</li>
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The last two destinations on that list were chosen as the result of recommendations I received from <a href="http://www.twitter.com/tashadoestulsa" target="_blank">Tasha Does Tulsa followers on Twitter</a>. If you know of a donut place we should try, let me know. We have lots of Fridays ahead that are ripe for adventure.

Have you invented any special weekend traditions? Just about everyone I've talked to has at least one. I'd love to know yours.