One of the tastiest snack foods ever made. It contains sauteed chicken breast,diced and spiced, blended with cheeses and scallions and baked in fresh pizza dough until golden brown. Only available at a restaurant known as esperanto in saratoga springs new york.

A doughboy was, oddly enough, a name given to American and British soldiers during World War I. Especially the Americans.

The American Expeditionary Forces, sent in 1917, were not exactly "experienced" in the new ways of war, and the stream of raw green recruits sent by Britain to replace the horrendous casualties of trench warfare result in entire regiments full of young, new soldiers that are not accustomed to the ways of war. A doughboy was, hence, a derogatory term for the inexperienced warriors of the trenches.

How this word became the name of a tasty snack, or vice versa, I do not know.

A doughboy is the correct term for what many people call fried dough. Making them at home is both more fun and cheaper than buying them at a carnival. A doughboy is similar to a funnel cake. The only difference is that doughboys do not involve funnels!

Here is the proper way to deal out doughboys. You will need:

• An electric frying pan
• Some sort of vegetable oil
• Lots of bread dough
• Some flour
• Powdered sugar, granulated sugar, and/or cinnamon
• Cheese
• Butter or margarine
• Assorted jams and jellies
• A fire extinguisher, just in case

Put a thick layer of oil in the frying pan, then turn it on. If the pan catches on fire, you've set it too high, so buy a new frying pan and start over. Next, put some flour on your hands. Start taking blobs of dough and dropping them into the pan, but not from too high up. We don't want splashes of hot oil giving third degree burns to your kids. When the blobs start sticking to your hands, put some more flour on.

For some reason, when my mom's family makes doughboys, we make plain ones first, and then we start putting cheese inside. Be careful when eating a cheese doughboy; the insides stay HOT!