Oh, and Donuts in Brazil are a nightmare. They barely exist and what does exist is much closer to a big dry cake than a donut. This country fries everything but for some reason can't figure out how to fry dough.
I gotta make some beignets soon.
I'm a vision of hotliness, and how weird is that? Mystical comas. You know, if you can stand the horror of a higher power hijacking your mind and body so that it can give birth to itself, I really recommend 'em.
Cordelia ,'You're Welcome'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gris - Mar 23, 2021 5:56:43 pm PDT #4814 of 30000
Hey. New board.
Laura - Mar 23, 2021 6:10:05 pm PDT #4815 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Now I am remembering my mother making donuts. Ah, I had totally forgotten that we used to do that. As I recall it was pretty easy to do. And hot and fresh.
Dana - Mar 23, 2021 6:12:49 pm PDT #4816 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Shipley's are great, but I have moved too far north to get them. But conveniently, there's a great mom-and-pop place within a couple of blocks that makes great doughnuts.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 23, 2021 6:14:15 pm PDT #4817 of 30000
What is even happening?
Not related to donuts, but it is within keeping of the breakfast theme, have any of you followed the story of Jensen Karp, the guy who found what seems to be shrimp tails in his Cinnamon Toast Crunch (CTC) cereal?
Karp is a TV writer, married to Boy Meets World's Danielle Fishel (Topanga). It's all on Twitter. I know some of you avoid it, or find it confusing, but it is quite the odyssey, as well as the Glamour-Don't for social media customer response.
It started here on March 22nd. [link]
He didn't publish it as a thread, so if you're not familiar with navigating Twitter, your best bet is to go to his profile, here [link] , and scroll down until you find the original posting of the above tweet.
If that's too much for you, you can get the highlights from Yahoo!, here. [link] I've saved that on the Wayback Machine, because sometimes Yahoo articles disappear. [link]
DavidS - Mar 23, 2021 6:20:01 pm PDT #4818 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Being in the Bay Area I have access to Super Fancy Artisanal Donuts with Rare and Exquisite Fillings piped in.
They are pretty fucking delicious.
-t - Mar 23, 2021 6:22:31 pm PDT #4819 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dunkin’ doesn’t make the donuts with the handles any more, do they? Or can I just not get them out here for some reason. The nearest Dunkin to me is something like 12 miles so I don’t go often and could have just missed out, I suppose
The donuts of my childhood were from a non-chain shop about a mile from my house. They were delicious, and my bus stop throughout high school was nearby so that they let us stand around inside on cold mornings made me like them even more. They had warm apple cider, too. Yum.
But a Krispy Kreme that just came down the, shoot, lost the word. Thing that stuff comes down. Argh. Anyway, fresh and hot, those are good. I was somewhat bewildered to learn that they made other varieties of donut than basic glazed, honestly. I think I first had them on a school field trip, which now seems odd. How did that happen? I don’t remember the name of my local donut shop, but I can picture it, and Coffee Call was where the soccer team met before caravanning to away games (for beignets), but Krispy Kreme was somewhere a bus stopped on the way to somewhere else.
brenda m - Mar 23, 2021 6:52:08 pm PDT #4820 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
But a Krispy Kreme that just came down the, shoot, lost the word
Chute?
Consuela - Mar 23, 2021 6:54:10 pm PDT #4821 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The best donut shop in Oakland closed last year, then re-opened less than a mile from me a couple of months ago. I still haven't been.
Hey, if anyone listens to the podcast Ologies (which seems like a very Buffista-type of podcast), Our Allison gets a shout-out for Vampire People in an interview with a fanthropologist in the most recent episode. Quite nice.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 23, 2021 7:20:41 pm PDT #4822 of 30000
What is even happening?
Dunkin’ doesn’t make the donuts with the handles any more, do they? Or can I just not get them out here for some reason.
They stopped,-t. It was their namesake donut, "The Dunkin" (for non Dunks people, it was a plain cake donut with a handle made out of donut).
They also stopped making their crullers (not French crullers, but braided/twisted cake donuts in plain, jelly, chocolate, cinnamon, and sugar). I don't think they make the (airy, yeast) sugar raised donut, which was my favorite.
At least around here, Dunks stopped making them in the shops, and started trucking them in from factory bakeries -- and that's when they went down hill. They're under-cooked to my taste.
But a Krispy Kreme that just came down the, shoot, lost the word.
Conveyor belt?
-t - Mar 23, 2021 7:39:48 pm PDT #4823 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Conveyor belt is what I was looking for, but chute is funnier in context. What I was coming up with, for some reason, was tractor beam and I knew that was wrong.
That’s sad about the dunkins, Cindy. I have had limited exposure to DDs in my life, but I liked those.
That’s very cool, Consuela! I’m going to look for that right now.