When is a donut a donut?

[shortylickens]

WTF is a "long john"? IS that some kind of East coast name? 'Round here they're maple bars or chocolate bars.

What if they had vanilla? Or powdered sugar?
Wouldnt it be easier to call the device what it is, rather that what it could be?

 

[bobdole369]

The only donut that I will recognize is the "cake-style" donut. Your typical Krispy Kremes are glazed sweet dough fashioned in a circle with a hole. I HATE raised donuts. Nobody likes em! They always are the last donuts remaining and the first to go are teh significantly more substantial cake donuts.

Note:

A raised donut is fried "Dough" essentially sweet bread.

A cake donut is fried "Cake" essentially fried fucking cake. Case closed - cake wins, raised loses. All those who enjoy raised donuts suck.

 

[WelshBloke]

NO.
A doughnut is round with a hole in the middle, deep fried.(Unless it's a "Creme Filled" or "Jelly "doughnut", which is technically a Creme or Jelly Filled Pastry)
A Long John is a rectangular, deep fried pastry, usually filled & topped.
The list goes on.
All pastries have names. Learn them & use them.:biggrin:

A pastry should contain pastry in some form. A doughnut is not a pastry.

 

[waggy]

not always

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[Farang]

There is not a clear answer, seems to be some dispute as to what makes a donut a donut. I added a poll with the common answers

 

[Exterous]

Tim Horton's and Krispy Kreme are so over-rated it's ridiculous. Else all the other places that make doughnuts around you guys absolutely suck. I got a small package of day old doughnuts from a grocery store on my way to Buffalo a couple weeks ago. I remember thinking "omg, these are awesome!" If the place wasn't 25 miles away, I'd get doughnuts from there every other weekend.

There used to be an actual Krispy Kreme shop where I lived and the ones made at the shop itself were far better than the ones you get in regular stores.

That said there is an amazing local place that sells doughnuts. Open 24 hours, cheap and firendly. Its a good thing its not on my way to work otherwise I would be in trouble.

 

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[Alienwho]

It's a donut the second you put your fist in the dough!

 

[sactoking]

What if they had vanilla? Or powdered sugar?
Wouldnt it be easier to call the device what it is, rather that what it could be?

Never in 31 years have I seen one that wasn't chocolate or maple. Besides, we in the West do call it what it is...

Poll answer: Doughnuts are like porn, you know it when you see it but you can't describe it.

 

[Farang]

Never in 31 years have I seen one that wasn't chocolate or maple. Besides, we in the West do call it what it is...

Poll answer: Doughnuts are like porn, you know it when you see it but you can't describe it.

is donut porn describable?

 

[BUTCH1]

Tim Horton's and Krispy Kreme are so over-rated it's ridiculous. Else all the other places that make doughnuts around you guys absolutely suck. I got a small package of day old doughnuts from a grocery store on my way to Buffalo a couple weeks ago. I remember thinking "omg, these are awesome!" If the place wasn't 25 miles away, I'd get doughnuts from there every other weekend.

We have one close by, it always smells amazing as you drive by but IMO their donuts are way to sweet and doughy, a small place called Java Junction has 10X better that KK or DD, the place is always packed..

 

[makken]

speaking of donuts, is there an official name for this type of donut:

 

[Eos]

speaking of donuts, is there an official name for this type of donut:

Old fashioned.

 

[Farang]

I take issue with those who answer "Only all fried pastries with an "O" shape are donuts. "

A jelly donut is not a donut? Are you kidding me?

Those who voted for 'you know when you see it' are taking a copout. The point of this thread is to identify a definition. I shouldn't have even put that option up there.

Websters:

dough·nut
noun \-(&#716nət\
Definition of DOUGHNUT
1
: a small usually ring-shaped cake fried in fat