And now, a food related poll destined to cause flamewars: Subject: Donuts

[TheMightyFavog]

[BarenakedLady]

1. Not big on donuts

but I chose glazed.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I chose glazed, but that would be cake donuts, not the yeast variety.

[TheMightyFavog]

3. Cake > Yeast

Cake donuts are much better at retaining coffee.

Best Cake donuts in the world? The homemade ones at Paul Bunyan's in Wisconsin Dells, WI.

[Arkansas Granny]

8. We have an Irish Maid donut shop here that makes excellent cake donuts in a variety of flavors.

[CBR]

4. Blueberry donuts... nt

[Raffi Ella]

5. mmmmmmmm Donuts

any kind but especially Cream Filled kind.

I can't remember the last time I had donuts but I would eat them for breakfast everyday if I could.

[rrneck]

6. Glazed

I used to eat a dozen every Sunday morning.

[hippywife]

7. Other: Old Fashioned

Or is that what you meant about the ones with handles? :shrug:

[TheMightyFavog]

10. Nah I'm talkin the ones Dunkin Donuts makes...

Can't find a picture of them though...

[hippywife]

33. Hmmm...

not sure what they are. Never been in a Dunkin Donuts, even when I lived in a place where they had them. :shrug:

[jobycom]

28. Haven't heard that term in a decade or two.

My grandfather used to call those "old fashioned" donuts. We always call them cake donuts.

[hippywife]

31. Totally different than just cake donuts,

which I also love. These have sour cream or buttermilk, depending on whose making them, that give them this nice little tang in the flavor. Very yummy. :9

[jobycom]

34. Oh, I love them, I just call them buttermilk cake, or sour cream cake.

I'll start calling them old fashioned again, though. Sounds more cooler. :")

[mitchum]

9. Glazed...from Krispy Kreme

[meeshrox]

14. Chocolate glazed...from Krispy Kreme

my husband takes his turbo-charged "torque monkey" out every saturday morning to get a dozen...if that's all I eat all day, that can't be bad, right?

[nuxvomica]

11. I prefer plain but I like ones with powdered sugar or cinnamon

I love Entenmann's chocolate-covered donuts but I never feel well after eating them. I suspect that a layer of soap forms where the frosting meets the cake surface, giving them their oddly soapy but addictive flavor.

[HopeHoops]

12. Just plain old boring cake type - no coatings.

[Broken_Hero]

13. other-

None...never again. I use to work in a bakery and I was the donut fryer, when I found out how lax our requirements were for making donuts I don't touch them at all.

:scared:

[meeshrox]

15. yeah...thanks!

Kinda like how the engineers that oversaw the Crosstown Expressway construction here in Tampa will never drive on it... :)

[Broken_Hero]

44. A word from the wise...

Stay away from the Glazed Donuts...those were the worst

[meeshrox]

45. Does it have anything to do with the little conveyer belt and ribbon of glaze?

Or is it just the fried bit?
Or something else entirely?

[Broken_Hero]

58. it has to do with sanitation and how

long/old the glaze is.

The glaze machine I used would literally, if I cleaned it by hand take me roughly 4hrs to clean and that was half my shift. I was "encourage" to never clean the glaze machine...I worked in the Bakery for 7months or so, only cleaned it once.

Same thing with jelly filled donuts...

[Kali]

68. it's sugar syrup, it can't go too "bad"

sugar is a natural antimicrobial/preservative - why people make jams...

[Broken_Hero]

75. One word "bugs"

another word, "ants"

[Kali]

76. oh you mean protein sprinkles?

:rofl:

yeah those would need to be cleaned out, I would agree
so if our glazed donuts have a slight formalin flavor we should know the glaze machine hasn't been cleaned in a few months?

[Broken_Hero]

77. Protein sprinkles,

I have to remember that one, the bakery was just looking out for its customers, everyone needs a little protein...I can get behind that, :D

The jelly machines I used were similar, but they were a lot easier to clean(about 1hr total), but we were short handed and the bosses made us cut corners. I tried my best, but I believe nowadays a lot of donuts all ready come premade, all you have to do is heat them up, and put the glaze/frosting on them.

[Brickbat]

16. Glazed and raised, not cake.

[Swede]

17. At this time,my favorite is the cruller.

[auntAgonist]

19. +1. They are light and airy and deeeeeeeeeelish! n/t

[hippywife]

32. Those used to be my favorites

but can't find anyone around here that makes them anymore. Nothing like the rich eggy taste of a cruller. :(

[femmocrat]

18. Other:

I used to like the ones from Dunkin' Donuts with the apple filling. I haven't eaten a donut in about 20 years!

[quakerboy]

20. Simple raised and glazed

As an independent food item. If they are fresh. Only if they are very fresh.

Cake, simple glazed, with milk.

Apple filling with some sliced cheddar.



Havn't had anything even remotely resembling a donut in a long time now.

[RainDog]

21. muffins! I'm throwing down!!!! n/t

[Arugula Latte]

22. ...

from Portland, Ore.'s:

[MiddleFingerMom]

23. Second on the glazed from Krispy Kreme...

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...but also the plain pumpkin from Dunkin Donuts.
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Boston Creme from almost ANYONE.
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[rurallib]

24. WHERE'S THE FRICKING 'ALL OF THE ABOVE' CATEGORY???

I ask humbly.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

25. Donut Stop

If Mr 'pede wants to make a run tomorrow he needs to remember they close at noonish on Sunday after church is over

[Kat45]

26. Chocolate glazed, or the lemon ones with lemon inside and confectioner's sugar outside

Though once in a while, I can't resist the old fashioned sugar donuts.

[jobycom]

27. Beignets, Baby!

[KamaAina]

38. +31-17!

WHO DAT??

[KamaAina]

39. self-delete

wrong place

[jobycom]

42. WHO DAT??!@

I still have the "AMEN!" Times Picayune front page as my desktop at work. :)

You recognize the napkin holder and cute little round tables, don't you? :)

[KamaAina]

50. Gotta be the Monde

for some reason, they always used to give me attitude when I'd arrive by myself, making me wait while larger parties arrived after me. (sigh)

[jobycom]

53. Tips.

No one wants the single table, they want the tips of the bigger parties.

[JonLP24]

29. With stuff inside

Also like frosted on top with sprinkles.

[annabanana]

30. The ones that are just like the jelly filled, but without the jelly.

umm raised?

[tXr]

35. Kolaches. Sausage, cheese, and jalapenos.

[baldguy]

36. Since it's Spring - Fasnachts

[BlueJazz]

37. Anybody who doesn't eat Coconut donuts is simply Uncivilized.

[KamaAina]

40. Where is the love for crullers?

Mmmm... that silky smooth texture... we were talking about donuts, right?

[KamaAina]

41. Hawai'i boasts two indigenous types of donuts!

Malassadas, of Portuguese origin, are similar to beignets but most often coated with cinnamon, while Okinawan andagi are sort of like giant cake-style Timbits.

[Bucky]

46. Please note that neither of those are, by definition, indigenous

or at least not to Hawaii.

[KamaAina]

47. Almost no food is truly indigenous to the islands

basically, fish, coconut and poi. Even the latter two were brought from elsewhere in Polynesia as "canoe plants" -- by the original Hawaiians themselves.

[Bucky]

48. When did the native Hawaiians actually arrive in Hawaii?

[KamaAina]

49. Estimates range from 400 to 700 AD.

Yup, AD. Aotearoa (New Zealand) was settled even later -- perhaps a couple of centuries before Abel Tasman arrived.

[MrMickeysMom]

43. Will it make my ass fat?

huuh-h-h-huh- who cares?

[Iggo]

51. Chocolate Frosted Devil's Food

Fresh and warm, if you can get them.

[pepperbear]

52. krispy kremes right off the assembly line

nothing nothing nothing is better.

[darkstar3]

54. Custard-filled, chocolate-iced Krispy Kremes are the only way to fly.

And I do mean FLY.

[csziggy]

55. Cake style with powder cinnamon sugar on them

The way Dunkin Donuts made them years ago.

Second favorite - classic glazed yeast donuts.

[Common Sense Party]

56. Anything but Krispy Kreme Krap.

Those are NOT real donuts.

[texanwitch]

57. I liked plain glazed donuts.

The best kind.

[Rhythm]

59. Krispy Kreme glazed... right off the line...

[astral]

60. a maple bar with coffee

is the only donut worth eating, as donuts are deadly to eat.

[LiberalEsto]

61. Crullers!

From Dunkin Donuts, naturally.

[GoCubsGo]

79. +1

Or, Tim Horton's. As long as it's a proper cruller, and not a cake doughnut that is shaped like a cruller, I'm happy, regardless of who makes it.

[Orsino]

62. Nature's perfect food. n/t

[mtnester]

63. Fritters baby. And custard filled are DIFFERENT than creme filled

totally

[LeftyMom]

64. Other: Vegan Voodoo Doll.

http://voodoodoughnut.com/menu.php



I just had one. It was delicious AND evil.

[Captain Hilts]

65. 'Doughnuts'. nt

[Shell Beau]

70. No no no!!!!! They are donuts!!

DONUTS!!!! Dammit!! ;)

[amyrose2712]

66. Sour Cream, Powdered nt

[muffin1]

67. It's bullshit

that I can only vote for one kind!!!!11!! I went with creme-filled, but I love ALL of them. I want one now, but I can't have one.
:(

I'm on a frigging diet. 29 down, 20 more to go...

[Shell Beau]

69. There is only one correct answer. Shipley's hot glazed donuts.

Better than buttah!!!


And anyone who answered anything different has never had a REAL donut!!! Especially if someone answered Krispy Krap!

[kick-ass-bob]

80. Bullshit.

I ate Krispy Kremes before anyone knew they existed, which is probably where Shipley's is now.

Been eating Krispy Kreme's since 1978...



Also, hello. :hi:

[Shell Beau]

84. BOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What in the hell are you doing stranger???? Good to hear from ya even though you are SOOOO wrong!! Shipleys is hardcore the best!


Kitchenwitch wanted me to tell you hi!! She is no longer on DU, as most of your old buddies aren't. They either got the pizza or left on their own! Kitchie got the ban hammer! x( But she says HELLO!!

[soleiri]

71. Anything from Donut man

In Glendora, Ca

I've been obsessed with getting a donut from there for the past few weeks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=158C5-u6dDA

[Quantess]

72. Other: None. I HATE DONUTS!

Last time I ate a donut, I got a stomach ache, blood-sugar-crash, felt depressed and started crying. I may be allergic.

[TreasonousBastard]

73. Donuts are one of the major food groups, but you have to stay out of the chains...

to find a good one.

NO Dunkin Donuts or Krispy Kreme. Anyone who would go there, even in desperation, would eat a frozen bagel.

Yer local donut shoppe or bakery is the only place to find a proper donut, and even there it's not easy.

I will be flamed and consigned to the depths of hell for this, but 7-11 donuts are pretty good, 'specially the filled ones, like raspberry. They are made by local bakeries contracted to make 'em, and are delivered around 2AM, so they are never as fresh as the ones just coming out of the donut fryer. But, they are amongst the more acceptable ones, and the Boston Creme beats hell out of Dunkin Donuts' lame attempt. Bigger, too.

No more Kripsy Kremes within reach of Desolation Isle where I now live, but I have no fond memories of the all too perfectly shaped, tasteless little disks.

[Chemical Bill]

74. Boston Creme from Allie's Donuts in N. Kingston, RI n/t

[caitxrawks]

78. glazed or powdered...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

81. Try the Fractured Prune's donuts.

http://www.fracturedprune.com/

Most locations are in the Maryland area. They are dipped and made to order, meaning they come out hot. A little slice of heaven.

[BreweryYardRat]

82. There's an indie donut shop in my town that makes the BEST donuts I've ever had.

Their menu keeps some of the usual standards and the rest is esoteric and changes constantly -- they've had cookies-and-cream filling, peanut butter creme filling, Oreo-crusted donuts, chocolate glazed with marshmellows on top, glazed with almond-crust.

And every single one is sinfully delicious -- an orgasm for the taste buds.

Half the reason I smoke is so I don't get cravings and go place a binge order.

[redqueen]

83. Cake

Glazed are good, but cake are better.

[Paper Roses]

85. Kane's, Saugus, MA. Chocolate glazed...

Best donuts ever. Hole in the wall donut shop in the middle of nowhere. Huge following. They make dozens of different donuts and pastries but the glazed are top of my list.