It is either a donut or roll.. Don't make it so difficult

[Nycclone]

Bill Cosby said it best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S-Coic8YB4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[swarthmoreCY]

So a Poptart is a type of donut then?

Is a Kringla a doughnut then?


The presence or absence of a hole means little.

 

[Rabbuk]

No one knows what a kringla is.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

So what the hell is a donut? I know what a doughnut is. I assume donut is kind of like Kleenex, where at one point maybe is was a specific brand name that got converted into the general name for a doughnut? Or does it just involve the dumbing down of America where we feel we needed to shorten the word because doughnut was too tough?

 

[ISU42]

So what the hell is a donut? I know what a doughnut is. I assume donut is kind of like Kleenex, where at one point maybe is was a specific brand name that got converted into the general name for a doughnut? Or does it just involve the dumbing down of America where we feel we needed to shorten the word because doughnut was too tough?

Derp

 

[cmjh10]

So what the hell is a donut? I know what a doughnut is. I assume donut is kind of like Kleenex, where at one point maybe is was a specific brand name that got converted into the general name for a doughnut? Or does it just involve the dumbing down of America where we feel we needed to shorten the word because doughnut was too tough?

A donut is delicious, that is the correct answer.

 

[CYvilEng]

No one knows what a kringla is.

Then everybody is missing out.

 

[fccy]

The Bismarck is actually filled with sea water since it sunk in 1941. :shocked:

So, someone talked about Bismarks, & I knew what he was referring to.

But do any of you know what a Pershing is???

And General Pershing was a WWI US General.:shocked:

 

[ItsCyence]

OP is wrong.

 

[pourcyne]

If it's fried, it's a doughnut.

Unless it's a beignet.

 

[pourcyne]

No one knows what a kringla is.

A cookie.

 

[Jambalaya]

This seems like a perfect Sunday topic and was reminded of this pet peeve I've mine this morning while picking up a Bismark from QT.

I get to the register, and the cashier asked if I had a regular or big donut in the bag.

Frequenting QT and dealing with their cashiers was your first mistake:twitcy:

 

[theantiAIRBHG]

The Zen philosopher Basho once wrote, a flute with no holes is not a flute, and a donut with no holes is a Danish.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm...beignets!


A pershing is what most people here call a "fried cinnamon roll"...

I think they were actually "persians", but for some reason, many people across the south call them pershings.

 

[Gunnerclone]

MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm...beignets!


A pershing is what most people here call a "fried cinnamon roll"...

I think they were actually "persians", but for some reason, many people across the south call them pershings.

Cuz this is 'Merica! You wanna eat a roll with a monarchical, middle eastern connotation? Or do you wanna eat a roll with one of the most freedomy names in all of freedomdom?

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Cuz this is 'Merica! You wanna eat a roll with a monarchical, middle eastern connotation? Or do you wanna eat a roll with one of the most freedomy names in all of freedomdom?

Oh, honey, you are sooooooooo off-base ir you're linking me in with those mental deficients!

 

[cyrevkah]

So what the hell is a donut? I know what a doughnut is. I assume donut is kind of like Kleenex, where at one point maybe is was a specific brand name that got converted into the general name for a doughnut? Or does it just involve the dumbing down of America where we feel we needed to shorten the word because doughnut was too tough?

I think we can blame either Dunkins for the popular new spelling or texting

 

[ImJustKCClone]

I think we can blame either Dunkins for the popular new spelling or texting

Revkah is right...

From Grammarist:
"The dictionary-approved spelling for the ring-shaped cake made of dough and fried in fat is doughnut. The shortened donut has been around since the late 1800s, but it wasn’t popularized until the late 20th century, when the successful American doughnut chain Dunkin’ Donuts made it ubiquitous. Today, writers outside the U.S. still favor doughnut by a wide margin. Donut appears about a third of the time in published American writing.

Donut is a simpler spelling, so it may grow even more common now that it has a foothold. Those of us who don’t wish to assist Dunkin’ Donuts’s branding would be wise to resist the trend, though."

 

[Clonefan94]

This seems like a perfect Sunday topic and was reminded of this pet peeve I've mine this morning while picking up a Bismark from QT.

I get to the register, and the cashier asked if I had a regular or big donut in the bag.

huh? It is a Bismark, it is a not a donut. Donuts have holes in the middle of them. That why we have donut holes.

Anything that is not a donut, is a roll. (BTW....QT lists this correctly as "rolls" on their signage, so this was a cashier thing, not QT's).

I noticed this awhile ago in our cafeteria at work. In the area they keep the donuts and rolls, they posted a sign with the prices of donut and "big donuts".

I'm curious now. Is this just a central Iowa thing or does this odd confusion exist elsewhere as well? I grew up in Minneapolis/northern Iowa and never came across this until locating to central Iowa.

So in all your years and all your travels, you've never heard of fried dough, filled with a fruit flavored substance referred to as a "Jelly Doughnut?" The hole has nothing to do with weather or not it's a doughnut.

 

[CyStalker]

Doughnuts are fried, rolls rise and are baked.