Editing Doughnut (section)

====Pink boxes====
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In the US, especially in [[Southern California]], fresh doughnuts sold by the dozen at local doughnut shops are typically packaged in generic pink boxes. This phenomenon has been attributed to [[Ted Ngoy]] and Ning Yen, refugees of the [[Cambodian genocide]] who began to transform the local doughnut shop industry in 1976. They proved so adept at the business and in training fellow [[Chinese Cambodian]] refugees to follow suit that these local doughnut shops soon dominated native franchises such as [[Winchell's Donuts]]. Ngoy and Yen allegedly planned to purchase boxes of a [[Color in Chinese culture#Red / Vermilion|lucky red]] color rather than the standard white, but settled on a leftover pink stock because of its lower cost.

In the mid-1970s, pink doughnut boxes were already a common sight in the eastern and midwestern United States, due to the fact that [[Dunkin' Donuts]] used a solid pink color for its boxes at that time.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.thepackagingcompany.us/knowledge-sharing/iconic-packaging-dunkin-donuts/ | title=Iconic Packaging: Dunkin' Donuts}}</ref> (It switched to a different box design sometime after 1975.) But the chain did not begin to establish a major presence in California until the 2010s.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://ktla.com/news/local-news/dunkin-donuts-debuts-first-socal-location-in-santa-monica/ | title=Dunkin' Donuts Returns to SoCal; First Location Opens in Santa Monica| newspaper=KTLA}}</ref>

Owing to the success of Ngoy and Yen's business, the color soon became a recognizable standard in California. Due to the locality of [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], the pink boxes frequently appeared as film and television props and were thus transmitted into popular culture.<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pink-doughnut-boxes-20170525-htmlstory.html | title=Why are doughnut boxes pink? The answer could only come out of Southern California| newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>