please empty your brain below

I don't like doughnuts enough to have another try at them to ensure a qualified response.

I like the ones with the jam in the middle. I guess a hole must have been created in it - in order to get the jam inside.

The ones with wholes are fun and you can always have them glazed, but sometimes it's good to have one with filling - so I'll sit on the fence on this one.

As for spelling - here in the UK it must be doughnut, surely.

Oh that was a great comment - comment on the spelling and spell holes wrong! LOL

i never say no to a sugar-coated ring, but a moist jam doughnut with a fresh cuppa is hard to beat.

I once had a doughnut that was so bad the hole was the best part!!

Gary - how can you say 'glazed' and then make a comment about 'here in the UK' - it's ICED!!

And DG, you should know better than to enquire about doughnuts when World Authority on Doughnuts dave is away in Blackpool

To me they are all nasty stodge. Unnecessary calories.

Had a rather nice baked one yesterday.
Low calorie and holy.
[Holier than dough?]

without hole, with jam.

Holy ones are best freshly cooked - we've got a nice place in Weymouth that does them, along with all the candy floss in the world and three miles of rock.

WARNING! Do not put tired, jam-filled doughnuts in the microwave to freshen them up. Result: napalm.

freshly cooked, still warm holey doughnuts at the seaside...heaven!

Canucks eat the most doughnuts per capita in the world, so I'm proclaiming myself the local expert!

I hope I don't offend anyone with this... Doughnuts in the UK are mostly rubbish. I think I've had one (from a local, family-owned bakery) that was good inside of three years. They're flat-out not unhealthy enough! Too dry, not enough fat. After having the British stuff for a few years, even Krispy Kreme (which I usually put off as too sweet, and a source of "instant diabetes") is pretty good.

Preferences? My two favorites are filled. The Polish pączki, preferably with prune jelly, and the Canadian Maple from Tim Horton's back home. (It's a doughnut, filled with creme of some sort, topped with maple glaze) In a pinch, the plain glazed ring "donut" from Krispy Kreme is good if you only have one. The rest of them are a little sickening. (as is having more than one)

I'd kill for a Timmy's here.

Has to be with jam filling (not custard, toffee or apple), coated in sugar (not icing sugar, icing or "sprinkles") and preferably still a bit warm.

Doughnut. With raspberry jam.

The temptation to lower the tone is huge but I won't (this time).

Definitely "ugh" and both kinds are equally good. Mini-ones are the devils kindred though.

Doughnuts, without holes, with jam...

Wants one right now!

Has to be no holes, with jam and without licking your lips.

doughnuts..no hole, filled with custard. Got to be really fresh tho...

I prefer "donut" and don't have a preference for holes. (I'm from the US, though, which explains my spelling preference and why I'm hoovering up three dozen a day).

Without holes and full of jam.

Raspberry jam or apple filling and definatly without holes. If it's got a hole then it's not a doughnut, it's a slimy american ring thing.

The best thing about UK doughnuts is biting one side off it and then getting your tongue inside to lick all the jammy goodness out. Messy, but yummy and NOT done in public!

I like the ones from (can I bear to even write their dreadfully hick name?) Krispy Kreme (ick!).

I don't like jam.

However, I do rather like tesco's custard filled doughnuts.

Yum.

Yup, doughnuts, freshly cooked, with holes, still warm, in a white paper bag with sugar collecting in the bottom.

I don't like doughnuts. I detest the word Donut even more.

Incidentally is this a test to see if we can entertain ourselves for a whole day?

Ring doughnuts with caramel from a shop in Jeffrey's Bay.

jammy ones with icing sugar rather than the big lumpy grainy cheap sugar

Definitely without.

I really can't stand the Dunkin' variety which are the only ones we can get here.

Salvatori - it appears that Tesco don't do their own doughnuts any more, only (ick) Krispy Kreme. I tell you, even if I liked their doughnuts (which I don't) I would still refuse to eat them on the basis of that stupid name. Worse than Toys 'R' Us.

When we were kids we would cycle with my Pops to DunkunDonuts (dont' know how you spell this) which was on Farringdon Road on Sundays and get brown and white iced ring donuts - they were the best. The other greatest ones are caramel filled coffee iced ones from Dundee. I'm very particular about donuts - those over greased ones are revolting. And theres no point eating a sugared ring (just boring).

they are better filled with cream. Hmmmmm. Doughnuts.

If only I could find some churros - you know, the long, thin, ridged Mexican doughnut. Mmm!

I'd quite like a ring doughnut filled with jam. Best of both worlds.

I find myself unable to answer the question, as all the doughnuts I've ever eaten have had holes in; either from the injection of jam/custard/whatever or because they are ring-shaped. Then they all have holes in, made by my gnashers...

Ring-shaped ones are much easier for fairground people to pick up though, retrieving them with their sticks from a river of boiling grease, so they're the best ones really. And they don't spew jam onto your lap when you inadvertently bite into the opposite side from the injection hole...

And now I want a doughnut. I can honestly say I haven't thought about them in ages - perhaps years, but fresh, with jam please.

Mmm... me spies a small test... Could it possibly be to test how many comments can be caused by a simple question?

You've got 3 comments per word, for this blog entry Bravo!

yeuch, all are revolting with the possible exception of a small bite of a freshly-cooked, jam-free seaside doughnut. And don't even get me started on 'Krispy Kreme'. Such abominations should be driven out of this country and back to the land of obesity and appalling spelling.

I don't like the American ones, but the British ones are fine (I had one on Monday).

All i have to say is: Berlinerboll

If one is on a diet, one should refer to them as donots

Mmmmmm.... donuts.











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