Ah the dolphin! I remember getting doughnuts there when I was around 8 with my mum, and being intrigued by how the dolphin worked. Nick invited me in and gave me a quick run-through of the pump setup. That was an awesome day.
1 month ago | 3
Get the food theorists they need to take a deep dive into the lore of footscray doughnuts
1 month ago | 9
As a big fan of Olympic, glad it was mentioned in the video. Love that doco too, glad you've seen it. Footscray will never quite be the same without Nick. Also I forgot to add this to my comment, the Old Geelong Rd level crossing removal, while I'm glad it's gone, was very sub par indeed. Good luck making your train if you're late for it given the extra distance and stairs.
1 month ago | 3
Thanks for the link to the doco; that was really sweet.
1 month ago | 5
Lucky to have enjoyed an Olympic donut many years ago. Thanks for this one mate
1 month ago | 1
Damn, now I am craving a doughnut or two! Footscray Station, you say? Mark from Melbourne Australia is on his way!
1 month ago | 1
i used to always get free jam donuts from nick when i was a kid it was nice
1 month ago | 0
There is a doco about him. Met him a few times. Lovely man. Sadly has passed on.
1 month ago (edited) | 2
Fun fact: three dolphins is also the flag of the Caribbean island of Anguilla
1 month ago | 0
I’d love to know more about these types of places near or on train stations in your next video of these
1 month ago | 0
There were doughnut vendors outside the Fishermen's Wharf Market in Port Adelaide. The Market is gone now
1 month ago | 0
So was Nick a Greek immigrant? That makes the olympic name and dolphin reference both make far more sense
1 month ago | 0
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**Additional Footscray Doughnut Lore Post**
One of the things about making really detailed videos, is I often stumble across interesting stuff when the video is almost complete, but it's too late to alter the script. On the last day I spent filming for the Werribee video, I was queuing for my doughnuts at Footscray station (I'd already filmed that part several weeks earlier - I was here purely for the doughnuts this time), and I noticed this logo embedded in the pavement outside the shop - a reminder of the original Olympic Doughnuts business. It's a set of trademark-dodging Olympic rings, surrounding a trio of dolphins, and the year Olympic Doughnuts was founded: 1979. The dolphins triggered a memory for me: in the original doughnut van, the jam was injected into the fresh doughnuts using a device shaped like a dolphin, and this dolphin was almost as iconic and well known as the van itself. Despite being too late to add this information to my video, this sent me down an internet research rabbit hole reading about Olympic Doughnuts, and it's owner Nick Tsiligiris. There's an amazing amount written about the little van outside the station, and I was pleased to find several pictures and videos of Nick (and the dolphin) hard at work. Sadly, Nick passed away in 2021.
There's a really good article about the history here: medium.com/@bram_p/olympic-doughnuts-remembering-a…
Also this wonderful 8 minute 'donutumentary:' vimeo.com/147400287
And just a reminder: As I mentioned in the video, despite a different business now operating on the site, they're still serving fresh jam doughnuts, and they're still really good.
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