what is the best food with a single empty hole in the middle

cheerios probably right? heart healthy, etc.

bundt (sour cream pound, aka "sock it to me") cake

been living away from the northeast for 20+ years and I still miss the bagels

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the bagel is a really wonderful invention

pineapple upside down cake
pinaepple slices

devil's food cake
angel food cake

pineapple has to be cored to have a hole
and my upside-down cake is just cooked in a cast iron pan with no hole in the center

angel food cake = nasty/should be on nasty food with holes poll

hah spaghetti hoops fules

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pound cake motherbundters

pretty sure it's not this:
http://www.stefanofoods.com/storage/productimages/8_PepperoniRND.jpg

but obvious missing one: onion rings

donuts vs bagel vs pasta

cheerios are good but as an answer it's like saying the best drink is water when the answer is clearly beer

pasta is good drenched in delicious sauces but I prefer other pasta shapes

bagels are grand, especially in the NYC/NJ area, plus their inherent breadlike versatility is a strength

but have to take the homer simpson option here because pastries in general are my foodstuffs weak spot

http://www.mangemerde.com/gallery/chicken-rings.jpg

okay, I will openly admit I fucked up on not including onion rings because that's in my like top 10 foods all time. that's what I get for rushing/not doing extensive research on my poll.

for my poll

kinda feel like I'm being a dick here but on the other hand don't start a thread about ring-shaped foods unless you're totally committed

anyone who doesn't vote donut=Hitler

I can't commit to anything. Onion rings will you forgive me?

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NB: I have no idea what the fuck this is.

i always vote donut=hitler

There are 2 groups of people on this thread: those who choose donuts and liars.

king cake for its festive nature.

Donuts kind of suck. I still eat them but they're always disappointing. I vote bagels.

why good afternoon Mr. Hitler

Only good donuts I've had were hot from Krispy Kreme, and even those are kind of gross and left me feeling shaky and freaked out.

donuts are like vitamins for my soul

Best donuts are cake donuts. Fact.

n/a otm re: donuts -- they can be amazing but somehow seldom are

whereas the bagel is just brilliantly conceived, seriously, in so many ways: longevity, texture, portability, ability to go with other foods, just really well done

although now that I think about it, I have actually had one or two donuts that honestly would have been improved by a whitefish spread

ability to go with other foods

the bagel's single greatest advantage imo

you can't be the best if you need improvement.

donuts come in many varieties, shapes, sizes. glazed or plain. chocolate icing. strawberry icing. sprinkles or without. donuts are a mouth carnival, a wonderous flavor carnival. donuts make people happy. can we say the same for bagels?

can you get bagels without the hole?

Bagels are the best food, on this poll of ever.

on this poll OR ever.

Bagels cause people to err grammtically.

what about filled bagels - like a savoury version of filled donuts?

tbh you've got to have a brundlefly sweet tooth to be down with donuts

some folks would rather eat peanuts then wolf down a chocolate bar and I can imagine the great donut vs. bagel debate shaping up along similar lines

what about filled bagels - like a savoury version of filled donuts?

would you rather watch an Elvis impersonator, or Elvis himself?

that's a terrible analogy lol

what about filled bagels - like a savoury version of filled donuts?

bialys!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Bialy.jpg

donuts come in many varieties, shapes, sizes. glazed or plain. chocolate icing. strawberry icing. sprinkles or without. donuts are a mouth carnival, a wonderous flavor carnival. donuts make people happy. can we say the same for bagels?

Uh yeah I'm pretty sure we can.

hey what about that new "british" pizza with the hole

Best doughnuts don't have a hole in so I don't know.

another oversight - calamari!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Fried_calamari.jpg

food of the nautical gods

plain (but sugar covered/dusted/whatever) donut > plain seeded bagel

are those like combos, but with an un-filled center?

ilx and its salt tooth again. bagels are alright, just more bread really. i don't even see why they get to be a thing

ring of pineapple clearly the winner here.

day old or two day old donuts can be rendered delicious again through the miracle of the microwave, by the second day, any bagel I get is too hard to eat.

ONION RINGS YOU FOOLS

bagel chips, you guys. you put 'em in soup!

I don't understand the sweet bagels ... the cinnamon raisin, blueberry, muffin-ized bagel flavors.

I'm glad the poll has ended and I don't have to decide between warm glazed Krispy Kreme-like donuts and salt bagels. I love them equally.

(xpost) same here, except i like cinnamon raisin bagels and find they go well with some savory foods. i always go for onion/garlic/salt/sesame/everything.

xxp It makes sense once the texture moves away from that of an actual bagel, as it so often does. Blueberry BREAD is fine and delicious.

yes, but at what point does it cease to be a bagel and become some bagel/muffin hybrid?

Cinnamon raisin is the only non-wrong 'sweet' bagel flavour, and I say that as someone who hates raisins in anything except for pain aux raisins.

cheerios always remind me of either micro machines or Honey i shrunk the kids advert. so classic, i guess.

oh, poll is over already? bler.

I was looking for a photo of the big ghetto-bling size variety of these, the ones made out of SweetTart-like substance & typically sold in vending machines & bulk candy stores. These will have to do instead:

http://images.birthdayinabox.com/BIABviewLarger/CandyRing.jpg

polled too soon. woulda voted donuts were it not for the fact that the best donuts are hole-less and filled with a goo of some kind.

best doughnuts are the cider doughnuts sold at northeast u.s. farmer's markets in the fall and winter. they go stale so quickly, but when they're good they're simple and perfect.

^^^ fresh out tha oven w/ cider so dense & sweet that more than one cup will give you a bellyache, but all this consumed in autumn venues specific to the midwest & northeast = super-ultra classic!

http://www.seriouseats.com/images/20081024-donuts2.jpg http://www.seriouseats.com/images/20081024-donutspile.jpg

I will grant you, Indian savory donuts (which I have never eaten! a crime!) and cider donuts (which are seriously amazing) are two extremely compelling pro-donut arguments.

I still vote bagels, though. I eat so many bagels, you guys. It is like my staple food. Also, once when I was a kid, my father woke my stepbrother and me up in the middle of the night to take us to the 24-hour Mr. Donut that had just opened down the highway from our rural, unincorporated bend in the road, just for the novelty of it, and I'm still holding a pretty serious grudge against donuts because of it.

donuts are great, bagels are great, but really cheerios should have won

Indian savory donuts (which I have never eaten! a crime!)

You can get them at Udupi Palace on Devon. I think they're good but not amazing.

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(Is that the first, ahem, savoury item?)

(I'm not reading all the above to check)

You can get them at Udupi Palace on Devon. I think they're good but not amazing.

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, June 12, 2009 9:03 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you're not amazing! >:[

ok i don't know how to make that madface emoticon obvs but that's what that was supposed to be.

a booth at the farmer's market here always has some potato doughnuts, those are pretty great

today I could really go for two glazed Krispy Kremes and a DD Boston Creme

(I'm scared to think how much I would love Boston Creme if it were called anything more appetizing than Boston Creme)

you are letting silliness get between you and donuts, nabisco.

(I'm scared to think how much I would love Boston Creme if it were called anything more appetizing than Boston Creme)

What level of wordplay do you require before you will eat a hunk of fried dough filled with whipped sugar and flavored gelatin?

Ok forget I asked.

pro-tip: do not chew up the Boston creme and spread the resulting paste between two intact Krispy Kremes

I'm sorry, the name just makes me imagine Mark Wahlberg doing improper things to my donut

THANKS FOR RUINING DONUTS, JERKSTORE

^ what you say when mark wahlberg does inappropriate things to your donut

And afterwards, Say hi to your mom for me.

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this thread has suddenly become strangely unappetizing

argh

I'm sorry, I didn't mean it entirely that way. I think it's just "Boston" in general that is somehow unappetizing to me. I apologize, Boston: you have great restaurants and stuff but your name makes me the opposite of hungry

speaking of Boston: i'm watching this tonight http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118766/

Will Arnett as "Whitey".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Butt

indian savory doughnuts are called vadas and also come w/o holes

wow I misread that

come w/o holes

how paramecium reproduce

thank you, Carnac

the best doughnuts are the cider doughnuts sold at northeast u.s. farmer's markets in the fall and winter.

OTM

yeah, seriously, want

good call on the cider donuts omg i'm a kid again

otoh french cruller

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