From the glaze and the sprinkles to the last crumb on a subatomic level, behold the American donut.
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The truly pointless donut adulterant would be the cocoanut shavings. They add nothing to a donut’s sapidity and they get all over everything.
Don’t want no spram dinkles on my plain donut. Just the cake and the slug of hot coffee it protects my tongue from.
When I see that photo, I’m thinking “pretzel.”
If the sprinkles aren’t doing it for you, try adding some ‘Colorful Gummy & Kreme’.
That’s enough to throw a Sumo wrestler into insulin shock.