LUKE: Where’s your mom tonight?
RORY: At a party for my Grandpa.
LUKE: Oh, sounds nice. Grab yourself a donut.
Rory returns home from Stars Hollow alone, and is outside the diner when Luke returns from his fishing trip. He offers her a coffee and a doughnut, but he’s been away for a week and only just got home – those surprisingly fresh-looking doughnuts must have been sitting on the counter for a week! There’s so much eating of old and expired food on this show.
The Annotated Gilmore Girls 