# Donuts **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2012, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499 "2012-01-05T13:25:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/21 "2012-01-05T18:46:09Z")
Cake donuts, eh. Learn something new everyday… ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/22 "2012-01-05T18:56:21Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > I’ve never heard the terms cake or raised donuts before. I just eat them. > > My favorite is the Dunken Donuts French cruller. Or however it’s spelled. I think it’s spelled “tractor tire.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/23 "2012-01-05T20:47:49Z")
I prefer Dunkin’ raised glazed donuts, but there are none around here. When Krispy Kreme moved in we had a flirtation with them, but it was soon over. We have mom and pop donut shops around here, but they don’t stay open when we want them, in the middle of the night. Actually, I really vote for beignets. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/24 "2012-01-05T21:14:22Z")
> [@SCSimmons](#): > > How did you not know that doughnuts are deep-fried? 😕 It’s always nice to scroll down a single post and see your thought already typed out, word for word. I like donuts. Any donuts. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/25 "2012-01-05T22:36:22Z")
Mary’s Cake donuts in Vermont are about the only donuts I really like. ---
**Author:** ![UFC\_Is\_Sux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/46a35a/32.png) [@UFC\_Is\_Sux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UFC_Is_Sux)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/26 "2012-01-05T22:44:51Z")
Mmmmm … donuts. I sure miss them. Haven’t had one since 2000 - I would walk into a Krispy Kreme, walk out with a dozen and scarf every one of them, right there. I wouldn’t be able to walk today if I hadn’t banned them from my table. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/27 "2012-01-05T22:50:26Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Cake by far. If all there are is raised, I’ll go find a bagel somewhere else instead. This. The perfect donut is an [apple cinnamon sugar cake donut](http://qdexpress.com/oscommerce/images/cinn_sug_apple_sauce_cake.gif), commonly found fresh and hot out of the fryer from September through November around here (if you go a bit into the countryside). The sticky sweet messy goo you get from glazed donuts don’t tempt me hardly at all, and given how nutritionally poor they are, I’d rather not eat them at all. But I could shake out the crumbs from a bag of (those pictured) donuts right into my mouth. It’s like eating childhood autumn. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/28 "2012-01-05T23:02:27Z")
I could eat an embarrassing number of hot Krispy Kreme glazed, given the chance. But our local county fair features a donut stand with little cake donuts fried right before your eyes and left plain or rolled in powdered sugar, or granulated sugar. The line goes around the corner almost all week long. Overall, though … raised. An outstanding outlier came to my attention recently. Our local grocery store takes butter croissants and fries and glazes them like a raised donut. Great googly moogly, but they’re good. Luckily, they sell out so fast that I can almost never get any. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/29 "2012-01-05T23:08:12Z")
Donuts should be raised. My mother does them every year for Halloween so we get them hot from the fryer with the glaze not quite hardened on it. Sigh. Food perfection. Now, if I could get her to do a few in bar shape with maple frosting . . . . ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/30 "2012-01-05T23:39:00Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > … > Actually, I really vote for beignets. Cafe’ Du Monde, with their chicory-flavored coffee! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/31 "2012-01-06T00:53:32Z")
Raised on raised. If anybody ever gets to Portland, be sure to try out [Voodoo Doughnuts](http://voodoodoughnut.com/index.php). It’s like a religion here, and I gotta say that the bacon-maple bars are awesomeness. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/32 "2012-01-06T01:10:43Z")
> [@BetsQ](#): > > I’ve never heard the term “raised” before, so I wikipediaed doughnuts. I guess Dunkin’ Donuts are cake and Krispy Kreme are raised? Not quite. Most Dunkin Donuts are raised, but they do make a couple of cake varieties. I used to love the chocolate cake doughnuts (and in season the pumpkin cake doughnuts) at Dunkin Donuts but now that none of the stores make their own doughnuts anymore (they’re all centrally made and shipped out to the stores) they just don’t seem to taste right anymore, so I have to settle for the blueberry cake doughnuts at Honeydew. Which I never get because there is no Honeydew that I know of in the city. They all seem to be in the burbs. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/33 "2012-01-06T01:15:14Z")
The best single donut is a hot from the fryer Krispy Kreme glazed, but taken off the assembly line before the glaze waterfall. Heaven. Failing that, Cake are better. Joe ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/34 "2012-01-06T01:35:43Z")
Sour Cream are my personal fave. Both Dunkin and Tim Ho make them. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/35 "2012-01-06T02:07:48Z")
Cake, please; leave off half the icing. No icing is even better. Does anybody know the town of Yachat Oregon? A bakery place right on the highway made, hands down, the best doughnuts I’ve ever had. It’s such a tiny town you shouldn’t blink twice or you’ll miss it. Take a minute and stop for doughnuts. A decade later I still dream of them. ---
**Author:** ![Lilacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/36 "2012-01-06T02:17:32Z")
There is nothing better than a chocolate cake doughnut dipped in peanut butter icing. Really though, anything freshly made and still warm is good. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/37 "2012-01-06T02:21:13Z")
No idea what you mean. I eat about 3 donuts a year. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/38 "2012-01-06T02:40:48Z")
Each is right for different occasions. As a result of this thread I am going to drive 16 miles out of my way on the way to work tomorrow, to an Amish market where I will buy half a dozen donuts. Three apple cider cake donuts with cinnamon sugar, two raised donuts with cinnamon sugar, and one “creme” filled. I will tell myself as I walk to the car that only two are for me this morning. Two are for Saturday and two are for my son. Then I will eat two on the drive to work. At about 11:00 I will decide that one donut is enough for Saturday. At 1:00 I will say “screw it” and eat my fourth donut. At three, when my son calls to say he’s gone home on the bus instead of coming to my shop I will decide that what he doesn’t know won’t hurt him and eat both of his donuts (2 cider) Then I will spend an evening self-loathing. I don’t want to…I have to. (For whatever it’s worth, they are very, very good donuts) ---
**Author:** ![brainstall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/39 "2012-01-06T02:54:26Z")
I voted for yeast donuts. Best donuts I’ve ever had came from the Portugese bakery that was near my house when I lived in the city. I used to stop there on my way to work when I wanted to bring in something special. They opened early and I would be there at 7am. The woman behind the counter would have to go down to the basement to get them, still warm and just barely ready to be sold. She’d bring up the whole tray and pack a half dozen into a bakery box and tie it up with string for me. Light, but not fluffy, and heavy enough to sit in your stomach like a stone all morning. REAL chocolate glaze, not just brown stuff. Sooooo good. I have yet to find donuts as good anywhere else. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499/40 "2012-01-06T03:23:26Z")
Cake or death! (actually I prefer plain old-fashioned) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts/608499.md?page=3)