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[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the UK these are called doughnuts.

The presence of a hole isnt a pre-requisite to being deemed a doughnut here.

Calling something that has zero holes a 'donut hole', will absolutely have a local refer to you as a doughnut tho...

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's called a doughnut hole because it's implied to be the piece of dough that was punched out to make a regular circular doughnut that has a hole in it.

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I understand that. I was just being facetious; my point was more to do with the definition of a hole, and how it's used here to describe something that definitely is not a hole.

If we're pedantic, then the doughnut hole is the middle bit of the original doughnut, now that this part has been punched out.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Doughnuts are typically made from a straight piece of dough shaped into a circle, not a hole punched.

Doughnut holes are usually just bits of the dough, prior to forming into a circle, that's cut up and fried

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[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But how do you differentiate between a doughnut ( o ) and a doughnut o. I'd be so pissed if I asked for a doughnut and someone handed me this tiny shit.

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One without a hole is a doughnut. One with is a doughnut ring.

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[–] sjkhgsi@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] match@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago

a Tim Hortons™️ Timbit™️

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

To be honest, they should be called "Donut Plugs"

[–] Bassman27@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But then 5 of them would need to be connected in a line, right?

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Make sure yours are flared before you eat them or they could get stuck

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Donut bungs.

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[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I think you could even convince English people that "merry fizzlebombs" and "upsy stairsies" are some kind of regional slang. Might even get away with "breaddystack" or "rickedy-pop" if you play your cards right.

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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Am I the only one that finds the whole "fake British words" genre of meme painfully unfunny?

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe if Brits would stop saying ridiculous things lol

[–] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You go enjoy your hushpuppies, elephant ears, bear claws, snickerdoodles and hootenannies.

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

You have to say snoggletarts out loud with a British accent.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (40 children)

Tim bits is what we use in Canada

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[–] Spicy_Canada_Dry@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Timbits. even if they are not form Timmy's

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Tim Horton's sucks now so they should always be "not from Timmy's"

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[–] glups@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Munchkins. Idc if they aren't from Dunkin'.

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[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Denvil@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Donut is just an American variation of the spelling, and considering they're talking about what Americans call this, donut is perfectly acceptable, and maybe even a more correct usage than the doughnut spelling

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[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Deez nut holes

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 5 points 1 year ago

those kinda look like greek loukmas/Turkish lokmas

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If these were British, they’d be coated in granulated sugar and called doughnut… balls? Just tiny doughnuts? I can’t imagine someone wouldn’t want to put jam in the middle or dip them in chocolate.

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Nah man, Brits would split them in half and spread a mixture of marmite and clotted cream on them.

Half of the population would call them "Yorkie balls" and the other would insist they're just scones.

[–] tino@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

in French: pets de nonne (nun's farts)

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

In Japan they’re just doughnut balls. Mister Donut calls them “pops.”

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