# The Whole Story of the Doughnut.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whole-story-of-the-doughnut/11152>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 18, 1999, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whole-story-of-the-doughnut/11152 "1999-11-18T01:30:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Onara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c6cbf5/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Onara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Onara)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 1999, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whole-story-of-the-doughnut/11152/1 "1999-11-18T01:30:00Z")

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All right, first post here. There is a question that has been bugging me for a long time; almost 5 hours. Here it goes;

“Should doughnut holes be called doughnut holes; or should they be called doughnut balls or something of the sort?”

Given, I just called them doughnut holes, but be creative here. They really do need a better name.

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What you see is what you get, but you haven’t seen anything yet.

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**Author:** ![keystream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a3d4f5/32.png) [@keystream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keystream)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 1999, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whole-story-of-the-doughnut/11152/2 "1999-11-18T01:39:00Z")

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hmm…they always struck me as immature doughnuts rather than having been removed from the adults. Submitted for the approval of the TM:

Doughies?

Pupal doughnuts?

Fetal doughnuts?

or maybe Pygmy doughnuts?

to be more PC about that last one, Little doughnuts?

or we could move more in the vein dog breeders and call them Miniature doughnuts or Toy doughnuts.

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**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 1999, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whole-story-of-the-doughnut/11152/3 "1999-11-18T03:03:00Z")

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Just dip them in glaze and hand them over… no name required.

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I am me… accept it or not.

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**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 1999, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whole-story-of-the-doughnut/11152/4 "1999-11-18T03:23:00Z")

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A practical response from a practical woman.

Now gimmie some of them there donut balls.

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You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing.