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😃🇺🇸🍩☀️❗️Your Favorite? (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Nov 2019 OP
When we were in Northport, MI, we went to a GREAT doughnut shop Siwsan Nov 2019 #1
Well! There's always lunch! 🍩😋 Floyd R. Turbo Nov 2019 #2
True. There's a Tim Horton right up the road! Siwsan Nov 2019 #4
Love Tim Bits! 😋🍩 Floyd R. Turbo Nov 2019 #5
When I was a kid customerserviceguy Nov 2019 #9
Around here, cream stick and long john are interchangeable names for cream filled doughnuts Siwsan Nov 2019 #10
Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnuts Glorfindel Nov 2019 #3
Sweet! 😋🍩 Floyd R. Turbo Nov 2019 #6
The cinnamon one customerserviceguy Nov 2019 #7
😋🍩❗️ Floyd R. Turbo Nov 2019 #8
Cruller IcyPeas Nov 2019 #11
Yep! 😋🍩 Floyd R. Turbo Nov 2019 #12
I assume all the donut pros are here... flotsam Nov 2019 #13
Plain old fashion!! blaze Nov 2019 #14
Fruit Loop doughnut from Voodoo NightWatcher Nov 2019 #15

Siwsan

(26,263 posts)
1. When we were in Northport, MI, we went to a GREAT doughnut shop
Tue Nov 5, 2019, 09:34 AM
Nov 2019

The cinnamon rolls and plain, unglazed buttermilk cake doughnuts were the best I've ever tasted.

A local grocery chain, here in Genesee County, has the best Long John cream filled doughnuts. The cream is not too sweet, definitely not weak and runny, like at a couple other stores. And the chocolate icing topping is thick and full of cocoa.

Great. Now I'm wishing I had headed out for a doughnut, instead of settling for a bagel, this morning.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
9. When I was a kid
Tue Nov 5, 2019, 11:22 AM
Nov 2019

in the Chicago area, we had a pastry called a "Long John", it was essentially puffy glazed-doughnut batter fried up in the shape of a rectangle, with white icing on top. When our family moved to the Portland, Oregon area, we couldn't find them, but the next best thing was a maple bar, the same thing with maple-flavored icing on top.

Since I moved to the East Coast in 2007, I haven't seen either of them. At least up in NY, the bagels were top notch, I still haven't found a good bagel in the Myrtle Beach area.

Siwsan

(26,263 posts)
10. Around here, cream stick and long john are interchangeable names for cream filled doughnuts
Tue Nov 5, 2019, 11:55 AM
Nov 2019

The best are the ones from the locally owned, non-chain bakeries. They may cost a little more, but it's sure worth it. The local grocery store that has such good ones is a chain, but it's a Michigan owned chain and they do take GREAT pride in their baked goods.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
7. The cinnamon one
Tue Nov 5, 2019, 11:19 AM
Nov 2019

in the lower right hand corner, but only if it's very fresh, they turn to crap quickly.

That does look like a S'more's themed doughnut in the middle, very creative, but even thinking about eating it makes my pancreas ache.

flotsam

(3,268 posts)
13. I assume all the donut pros are here...
Tue Nov 5, 2019, 06:37 PM
Nov 2019

If I buy donuts from my regular grocer they look fine in the store but after 12 hours or less in my house all the toppings melt whether plain sugar or chocolate. Is there some way to keep them closer to looking like when I buy them?

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