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When is a donut a donut?

What is required for a pastry to be called a donut?

  • Only all fried pastries are donuts.

  • Only all pastries with an "O" shape are donuts.

  • Only all fried pastries with an "O" shape are donuts.

  • Donut cannot be quanitified, you feel it when you see it.

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DrPizza said:
Deep fried dough.
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not always

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i want one of these!
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RichUK said:
Krispy Kreme or go home!

Also, it's 'Doughnuts' not 'Do-nuts'! 😱
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I believe both donut and doughnut are acceptable.

KK's are probably the only mass produced donut that I like. I don't really care for Dunkin's (though I love their muffins and coffee) and Tim Horton's is basically the exact same thing as Dunkin Donuts except in Canada.

I've had some amazing donuts from non-chains, though. just this week I took a 2 hour drive with my friends to buy cider donuts at an apple orchard.
 
loki8481 said:
I believe both donut and doughnut are acceptable.

KK's are probably the only mass produced donut that I like. I don't really care for Dunkin's (though I love their muffins and coffee) and Tim Horton's is basically the exact same thing as Dunkin Donuts except in Canada.

I've had some amazing donuts from non-chains, though. just this week I took a 2 hour drive with my friends to buy cider donuts at an apple orchard.
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I was kidding on the spelling of donuts. 😉

Freshly made ring/sugar doughnuts are amazing, if done right.
 
IronWing said:
Our resident topologists should probably weigh in.

Is a long john really a donut?
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guyver01 said:
yes

The Long John is a bar-shaped, filled doughnut often embellished with glaze or icing.

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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:
 
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I'm hearing at least two different answers:
-A donut is not a donut unless it has a hole in the middle.
-A donut is not a donut unless it is fried.

However there are "cake" (or baked) donuts, as well as differently shaped "donuts."

Again I ask--when is a donut a donut?
 
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.
 
DrPizza said:
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.
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There's something like that here too - there's a doughnut shop on the west side of town. Fresh-baked, as in, fresh. They make them right there on the premises, from flour and sugar on up. Not even close to something like Tim Horton's or Krispy Kreme. (Though I will still of course eat either of those two.)
The problem, and probably benefit, is the "west side of town" thing. That puts the shop considerably out of my way, or at least it's farther than I'm willing to drive just to get a food item. (Ok, so it's only 5 miles in the wrong direction. I'm exceedingly lazy and unmotivated when it comes to going out of my way to hunt down food, especially if it involves driving. Thank you, first world.)

I'm sure there are other doughnut shops too, but I probably shouldn't look for them. I'm +10lbs from a few years ago, and I'd prefer to avoid starting to look like a lazy engineer who abhors motion in the physical realm. 😀
 
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WTF is a "long john"? IS that some kind of East coast name? 'Round here they're maple bars or chocolate bars.
 
DrPizza said:
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.
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eh.

insofar as mass-produced, chain donuts go, I'd say they're better than a box of like Entenmann's or Little Debbie or something go.

I'm not sure anyone would chose them over a local store, but personally, the donuts they sell in my grocery store are pretty disgusting and any kind of non-chain donut shop is horribly inconvenient for me to get to on any kind of a regular basis.
 
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