PADUCAH, BIRTHPLACE OF THE DOUGHNUT!! Unisex short sleeve t-shirt

Paducah, home of the... DOUGHNUT? And the Krispy Kreme variety on top of that! Well, maybe. The WestKentuckyStar.com reports University of North Carolina Library Archives says "Vernon Rudolph opened his first doughnut shop in 1933 in the town of Paducah, Kentucky, with a recipe his uncle had purchased from a chef in New Orleans. Within a few years, he had moved his business to several other Southern cities, and was focused on selling his doughnuts wholesale to local grocery stores. He still had not found the perfect location to establish his business. It wasn't until the summer of 1937 that Rudolph set off for Winston-Salem, NC, with little more than twenty dollars in his pocket, two friends, and the intention of opening a new doughnut shop." However, Duke U's paper, The Chronicle, has a bit of a different story written in 2003 about Paducah's role in Krispy Kreme: "According to the Krispy Kreme website, Vernon Rudolph bought a doughnut shop in Paducah from a French chef named Joe LeB