New to the Lou: Day­light Come and Me Wanna Go Home.

Day-O, Saints, we are back for se­mes­ter two find­ing the best cor­ners of fla­vor in St. Louis and sur­round­ing ar­eas of Maryville Uni­ver­sity.

Start­ing off sweet with Day­light Donuts in Chester­field, Mis­souri. Day­light Donuts is not a donut shop lo­cated only in St. Louis, but it’s a shop that holds near and dear to who I am, and I wanted to share it with you all.

Let’s take it way back when… calo­ries did­n’t mat­ter and donuts were $0.79 a pop. I have been a donut lover since I can re­mem­ber, and my re­la­tion­ship with donuts goes way back. Way back to when I still wore my glasses and my col­lared shirts and khakis to school each day. My grandma would of­ten pick me up from school and take me to Day­light Donuts, where we were reg­u­lars at the time.

Now, I’m not sure what kind of strings my granny had to pull, but some­how a girl like me got to pick out my own sprin­kles for any donuts I wished. Pick­ing out my own sprin­kles also meant that the ic­ing had to be poured fresh each time as well, just so the sprin­kles would stick. This is a mem­ory with my grandma that I will for­ever ap­pre­ci­ate, be­cause man do I love donuts.

I’m from Quincy, Illi­nois and at one point in time, we were sport­ing three Day­light Donuts lo­ca­tions. For a town the size of Quincy, there’s barely one of any store, so to have three of some­thing was mighty spe­cial. If you were won­der­ing how far my love for donuts ex­tends; It is tra­di­tion for my birth­day cake to be made of donuts. Can­dles and all!

The last Day­light Donuts in Quincy closed in 2018, and its since then I had my last date with them.

When I found a Day­light Donuts was un­der ten min­utes from cam­pus, I knew I had to go, and share the love with my room­mates as well. I grabbed a va­ri­ety half dozen of what they had made fresh that morn­ing in­clud­ing a Blue­berry Cake Donut, a Cin­na­mon Twist, an orig­i­nal Glazed, a Vanilla Cake Donut with Sprin­kles, Straw­berry Glazed Cake Donut, and an Old Fash­ioned.

A trip down taste-bud nos­tal­gia lane was the per­fect way to start my day, and share the fla­vors with my friends!

Nika Vem­dal is a third-year ac­tu­ar­ial sci­ence ma­jor here at Maryville. She is orig­i­nally from Swe­den, but her fam­ily now lives in South Car­olina. Nika did­n’t have her first donut un­til she got to Amer­ica, so she was very ex­cited to try the blend of Day­light Donuts.

Af­ter open­ing the box, I saw Nika’s eyes light up, “They were the coolest donuts I’ve ever seen”. Her fa­vorite donut was the Straw­berry Glazed Cake Donut. 

Jor­dan Bod­den, my room­mate and sec­ond-year phys­i­cal ther­apy ma­jor, says that the donuts made her day, “I’ve been crav­ing donuts, so these hit the spot!” 

This is my sec­ond se­mes­ter away from home, so some­times reach­ing for some­thing fa­mil­iar can pro­vide you a sense of com­fort and joy. Day­light Donuts will al­ways be a place that re­minds me of where I come from. Lean into what brings you joy, and don’t shy away from splurg­ing on your­self, and in­dulging every now and then! 

You can find out more about Day­light Donuts pric­ing and menu here.