🍩 Krispy Kreme: Hot Doughnuts & Depression-Era HustleIn 1937, at the tail end of the Great Depression, Vernon Rudolph bought a secret yeast-raised doughnut recipe from a New Orleans French chef. With just $25 left in his pocket after moving to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he rented a small building in historic Old Salem and started baking.At first, he sold his Krispy Kreme doughnuts to local grocery stores. But the irresistible smell drifting onto the street changed everything. Rudolph cut a