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[DeKaFu]

We have a local bakery that has really great donuts. The plain old chocolate-dip is the best. They come in regular size and Mega Donut size.

They also sell maple bacon donuts with actual bits of bacon on top. I tried one and it tastes about like you'd expect.

I'm in Canada so there's also Tim Hortons for whenever I want quantity (and selection) over quality.

[Haspen]

Here in Poland we have 'pączki' which is deep-fried sweet dough ball, fist-sized, with a jam or marmalade filling inside. The most common (and cheapest) ones are with rosehip or strawberry jam.

And we have 'Fat Thursday'. It's a thursday before Ash Wednesday, thusly a week before the Easter Lent starts. During that Thursday, the bakeries make a ton of 'pączki' and sell them cheap. I think the tradition stems from the time when bakeries had to get rid of all the lard and jam before Lent, so they began making these.

If you know what you're doing, you can get up to 10 'pączkis' for less than...

* Haspen grabs a converter...

Approximately 3.5 USD v:

[Octobomb]

Those are bagels, from what I've heard.

I know what bagels are. I consume large quantities of them with a variety of fillings. No, I want sweet, sweet donuts with my bacon. I also want bacon with my bagels, but that's a different matter entirely. Bacon and crumpets sounds good, actually...

[MaximumZero]

Here in Poland we have 'pączki' which is deep-fried sweet dough ball, fist-sized, with a jam or marmalade filling inside. The most common (and cheapest) ones are with rosehip or strawberry jam.

And we have 'Fat Thursday'. It's a thursday before Ash Wednesday, thusly a week before the Easter Lent starts. During that Thursday, the bakeries make a ton of 'pączki' and sell them cheap. I think the tradition stems from the time when bakeries had to get rid of all the lard and jam before Lent, so they began making these.

If you know what you're doing, you can get up to 10 'pączkis' for less than...

* Haspen grabs a converter...

Approximately 3.5 USD v:

They...actually do the same thing here, but it's Fat Tuesday, not Thursday. For one week, it's like, "Fucking pączkis everywhere! Four hundred for a dollar!" and then you don't see them again for a year.

[Morrigi]

I really like this thread *_*  Math math math

Okay, and on the actual topic of discussion, where the fuck do you guys get reasonable doughnuts?  The ones I've had around here were all from Krispy Kreme or Dunkin' Donuts, and so bad I pretty much decided not to eat them any more because I philosophically am Pro Filled Doughnut but then all the fillings seem to be made out of some sort of soft plastic or something, because that sure as hell is not jelly.

Help?

Wha...What's wrong with Krispy Kreme? They used to be amazing. Or maybe it's just that I don't like jelly doughnuts, so I don't eat them, and thus don't wind up experiencing their synthetic ooze.

[Haspen]

They...actually do the same thing here, but it's Fat Tuesday, not Thursday. For one week, it's like, "Fucking pączkis everywhere! Four hundred for a dollar!" and then you don't see them again for a year.
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:O

* Haspen inscribes MZ as his american cousin of sorts.

* Haspen also hi-fives!

[Helgoland]

-snip-

We have Fettdonnerstag/Altweiber, basically the same thing - but here, the women storm the city hall. It's traditional~

[scrdest]

Here in Poland we have 'pączki' which is deep-fried sweet dough ball, fist-sized, with a jam or marmalade filling inside. The most common (and cheapest) ones are with rosehip or strawberry jam.

And we have 'Fat Thursday'. It's a thursday before Ash Wednesday, thusly a week before the Easter Lent starts. During that Thursday, the bakeries make a ton of 'pączki' and sell them cheap. I think the tradition stems from the time when bakeries had to get rid of all the lard and jam before Lent, so they began making these.

If you know what you're doing, you can get up to 10 'pączkis' for less than...

* Haspen grabs a converter...

Approximately 3.5 USD v:

[cynicmode] Also, the quality of those drops by like 50% and people form lines that look like throwbacks to the finest traditions of Soviet sphere of influence >.>

[Jimmy]

The best donut ever.

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[GreatJustice]

Here in Poland we have 'pączki' which is deep-fried sweet dough ball, fist-sized, with a jam or marmalade filling inside. The most common (and cheapest) ones are with rosehip or strawberry jam.

And we have 'Fat Thursday'. It's a thursday before Ash Wednesday, thusly a week before the Easter Lent starts. During that Thursday, the bakeries make a ton of 'pączki' and sell them cheap. I think the tradition stems from the time when bakeries had to get rid of all the lard and jam before Lent, so they began making these.

If you know what you're doing, you can get up to 10 'pączkis' for less than...

* Haspen grabs a converter...

Approximately 3.5 USD v:

Yeah, where I live there's about two weeks where the bakeries and supermarkets all have loads of pączkis for sale at very low prices, and then they're gone as soon as they appeared. It's quite sad actually, though it would be much worse if it only lasted a day.

[SealyStar]

I believe that a proper donut must have some sort of cavity, whether filled or not. Beyond this, I'm not sure.

[Frumple]

... even if the cavity was filled with dough?

[Aseaheru]

I believe that a proper donut must have some sort of cavity, whether filled or not. Beyond this, I'm not sure.

All things have cavities.

Space between atoms.

(hey, its the only way to explain the braided doughnut shape of every doughnut until about 150 years ago)

[SealyStar]

To clarify based on the above criticisms of my definition:

1. The cavity must be filled with a different medium (jelly, air) than the main donut body.
2. Its width make up at least one third (approximate baseline) of the donut's horizontal diameter.

Thus those nasty-ass tiny 'donuts' you get fifty of in a box are still excluded, because the hole in them is too small; however, the space between atoms would suffice for a hypothetical three-atom-wide donut.

[alway]

Okay, and on the actual topic of discussion, where the fuck do you guys get reasonable doughnuts?  The ones I've had around here were all from Krispy Kreme or Dunkin' Donuts, and so bad I pretty much decided not to eat them any more because I philosophically am Pro Filled Doughnut but then all the fillings seem to be made out of some sort of soft plastic or something, because that sure as hell is not jelly.

Help?

The trick is to find a good, local place. Around here, I prefer Donut Crown. So far as I can tell, it doesn't seem to be a chain, I only remember having ever seen 1 employee, and it closes by noon. For a local place to succeed in paying their rent while selling only donuts and such, they pretty much have to be good.
Chain donuts tend to be abysmal; KK being the worst, filling one's mouth with a taste that I can't imagine is too different from eating candle wax.