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Doughnut

6 (40%)

Donut

7 (46.7%)

Beignet

0 (0%)

A low-down dirty way to make a buck

2 (13.3%)

Total Members Voted: 15

[miles]

Now I'm really curious. Is it some kind of fucked up regional thing? A class thing? By my count, we have a Canuck, a dude who has spent his life split between the Pacific Northwest and the Mountain West (me) and a young man in St. Louis spelling it donut. And then a southern gal (right JL?), one of Ian MacKaye's neighbors and a guy who splits his time between Portland and Alaska spelling it doughnut.

What's the consensus of the board?

I'm not trying to start an argument, and I can't imagine anyone really cares enough for one anyway, but if I were, this ought to settle it:



And if not, this should:

[Choop]

first vote cast, and it's for donut. this is one of very few cases in which i lean descriptivist.



ohhhh shiiiiiiiiiiit

[Jaded Tersk]

For me it's a doughnut, but I ain't mad at donuts.

[greenkoolayd]

i picked "donut" because i am lazy.  i just want to eat the sumbitches.

[CortJstr]

I always write doughnut because I have it stuck in my head that the donut spelling is a brand name. Kind of like how back in the day spelling on-line without the hyphen would get you sued back to the stone age by AOL. That plus Firefox's spell checker doesn't recognize it.

[wombat]

I don't care how you spell it as long as you make the kind that is sort of rectangular with raspberry jam inside and granulated sugar on the outside.

[Nabubrush]

I don't care how you spell it as long as you make the kind that is sort of rectangular with raspberry jam inside and granulated sugar on the outside.

I like how you have skin in the doughnut game.

For me, it's just that the producer that I linked to calls what they make doughnuts. Everybody else can be making donuts and I'm good with that. It's perfectly cromulent.

[Nabubrush]

Of course,

vs.


Which is it, then? Where does your loyalty fall?

[Jaded Tersk]

This is my original fried dough-ring heaven, so you'd think I'd be a 'donut' guy, but I guess I always thought I was better than everyone else.

Driving back from church sometimes my dad would act like he'd lost control of the steering wheel, making him involuntarily turn left instead of the usual right.  Then he'd be all, 'Welp, guess we better park at Peterson's while I figure out what went wrong with the car.

[Nabubrush]

Your dad sounds pretty awesome.

[jay-ell]

I am a naturalized southerner, but I  spent my formative years in the midwest. My accent and dialect are so fucked up at this point that hardly anyone can tell where I'm from any more.

But yeah, it's doughnut. As in Krispy Kreme. Dropping three letters is just laziness.

It's what's wrong with America.

And what Wombles is describing is a beignet.

[Choop]

i have yet to find a glazed as good as a krispy kreme, but i'm bummed out that they discontinued the boston kreme. eclair meets the perfect glazed? heaven in a slip of wax paper.

on the other hand, dunkin has munchkins which just rock by the box.

[Jaded Tersk]

I am a naturalized southerner, but I  spent my formative years in the midwest. My accent and dialect are so fucked up at this point that hardly anyone can tell where I'm from any more.
I am totally understanding this, I can tell you.

But yeah, it's doughnut. As in Krispy Kreme. Dropping three letters is just laziness.
But throwing in krazy K's where C's should be is kool.

It's what's wrong with America.

And what Wombles is describing is a beignet.
OH DAAAAMN!

[CortJstr]

i have yet to find a glazed as good as a krispy kreme, but i'm bummed out that they discontinued the boston kreme. eclair meets the perfect glazed? heaven in a slip of wax paper.

on the other hand, dunkin has munchkins which just rock by the box.

I thought that an eclair was filled with gross nasty ol' cream while Boston Cream is filled with wonderful delicious custard.

[Choop]

... Once cool, the pastry then is filled with a coffee- or chocolate-flavoured[1] pastry cream (crème pâtissière), custard, whipped cream, or chiboust cream; and iced with fondant icing.[2] Other fillings include pistachio- and rum-flavoured custard, fruit-flavoured fillings, or chestnut purée. The icing is sometimes caramel, in which case the dessert may be called a bâton de Jacob.

i can't see any reason for any variation other than custard, personally