It's apparently National Doughnut Day. I've always been a doughnut lover, except for jelly doughnuts, which forever branded a rather traumatic childhood experience into my brain. Michelle, on the other hand, doesn't like doughnuts very much, if I recall correctly. And Scott, well, I'm not sure. How does Scott feel about doughnuts?
Thank you to everyone over the last couple of days, first for helping me spread the word on my book and also for passing along your thoughts on yesterday's topic. After a good night's sleep and some more communication, I'm feeling better about everything. The person whom I had offended ended up being totally awesome and I think we're communicating on the same page again. I will still be formulating a set of simple rules for myself, though.
So, tell me something random.
There was a short-lived sit-com years ago that starred Jonathon Winters. I don't remember the name of it and it wasn't very good, but one scene stood out.
ReplyDeleteIn the background, Mr. Winters' character had a tray of jelly doughnuts with little straws out of them. As the characters did their lines, he was sucking all the jelly out of the doughnuts. At one point, he interrupted the scene with the line "The jelly doughnuts are ready." The cast cracked up!
Mr. Winters had a history of mental illness and it seemed spontaneousness to me. Maybe it wasn't, but it's even funnier if it was.
I love Top Pot donuts. I despise Krispy Kreme (how dare they even call their vile product donuts?) and I am ambivalent about Mighty O donuts.
ReplyDeleteMy shoelaces today are double-knotted.
Doughnuts traumatise me. They were the first thing I ever tried cooking by myself and I ended up with piles of oily crumbs. I've never felt the same about doughnuts since!
ReplyDeleteJudy, South Africa
Charlie, that is pretty funny. Ah, the jelly doughnut, so full of possibility.
ReplyDeleteScott, if you break it down by brand, it gets much more complicated, doesn't it? I never liked a KK doughnut until I was handed a free freshly baked one. That was yumm-o. Free and fresh, that's how I like 'em.
Judy, you're quite brave to start off with doughnuts! The first thing I ever tried to make was pasta. Sounds like I was a bit more successfully, but I apparently played it safe. I think we should put together an anthology of traumatic doughnut moments. Troughnuts. Yeah, that title kind of sucks.
Doughmotional?
ReplyDeleteI once scored a 99 and 1/2 on a spelling test. Out of 200 words, I only misspelled doughnut. I argued that I got the word right. I just has a donut that morning!
ReplyDeleteMadison Avenue dumbing down America again.
Another piece for the anthology. Okay, I'm actually getting serious about this. Btw, Donut is acceptable, isn't it? I always thought it was anyway.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little and my mother was out of town, my father let me eat HOSTESS HO-HOs for breakfast because, he reasoned, "they're the same thing as a doughnut."
ReplyDeleteAnd really, was he wrong??
Here's my random: How cool is the Scripps National Spelling Bee (you know, besides the fact that it is on ESPN)? Aziz Ansari and Zach Galifianakis had a cameo. Someone might have called someone else chubby.
I'm okay with the breakfast ho-ho's too, which is probably why it's a good thing I don't have children. And I love watching spelling bees. Those little spellers are so impressive. When I was a kid, I was a decent speller and made it to some district bee or something. Then, I got out on the word "jungle". It was right after the judges took a break to remind us all not to rush before spelling our words.
ReplyDeleteLike I needed an excuse .
ReplyDeleteMiscellaneous, "My thighs can handle essence" is very funny. Your doughnuts sound delicious. I've never tried to make my own before. I've never been a very good baker in general. I'd love to take a class for it someday.
ReplyDeleteTana, sounds like you've been honoring the doughnut on your own. :)
So, Davin, are you going to spill that jelly doughnut story?
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I'm not a doughnut lover. I don't like them much at all unless they are homemade and resh.
Michelle, I'll keep that jelly doughnut story for myself for now. It's not Friday Filler material... too much of a downer. :)
ReplyDeleteMiscellaneous, LOL! I can do the baking S&M! I'd be very excited to see you do a cooking video. I have a version of the real life you in my head, and I'll be curious to see if it matches up. I imagine you talking quickly, for example. Your brain seems to work a lot faster than mine.
Bailey said what about Krispy Kreme? *ahem* He said what about my FAVORITE place in the world. *ahem* Davin, I must have read that wrong. Uh-huh. GLAZED BABY! :-)
ReplyDeleteI missed the post yesterday, but you know I'm heading to put my two cents in. Love you, my friend.
Sorry, Robyn! When it comes to doughnuts, light as air and soft as a cloud just doesn't always do it for me. I want a doughnut that thumps when you drop it. ;P
ReplyDeleteMiscellaneous, I just talked to the organizer of the reading yesterday, actually, and she said the live stream just wasn't going to happen. I was disappointed. What I'll be able to do, hopefully, is vidoetape the dress rehearsal a few days before. (Because of the actor unions, I guess you can't tape the actual show.) But I'm hoping I can put those up somewhere so that people can see them. Based on the other shows I've been to, the actual writer doesn't have to do much at all, which I like on this occasion. The organizer will probably introduce me at the very end and ask me to bow or something. As for my voice, I think your second description is accurate. That's how it sounds to me anyway!
The town I grew up in had a doughnut shop where they used potato flour in the mix. It was called the Spudnut Shop. My parents would take us there once a week or so. I loved anything with chocolate glaze. Founded in 1948, the Spudnut Shop is still open and I still stop by when I'm visiting.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite, though, is a chocolate-glazed old-fashioned.
Random: I am currently listening to a CD called "Ocean Waves." As you might guess, it is 60 minutes of the sound of waves breaking on the shore.
-Alex MacKenzie
Alex, I kept reading your doughnut story waiting for something horrible to happen. But apparently it was one of those "happy" stories. There was a time when I listened to a lot of those CDs. I had one that followed a canoe down the river and I'd listen to is as I was going to sleep. There were wolves howling in the distance during one section of the journey.
ReplyDeleteDomey: the Spudnut Shop was (and is) a happy place. Old-fashioned booths, a counter, and the doughnut-making process is visible by everyone.
ReplyDeleteMy ocean waves CD has gulls calling here and there. It is used mainly for meditation and going to sleep. Very soothing. Your canoe one sounds lovely.
I guess because you guys are on the west coast you haven't tried a Dunkin Donuts doughnut yet. THEY are spectacular.
ReplyDeleteAnd for random, my mother tired to make fish and chips in her brand new kitchen tonight for supper. As well you can imagine, that will never happen again.
Wow, you act fast too! I'm glad you got the camera. I hope you have fun with it. :)
ReplyDeleteThey're going to be reading five stories: Obaachan, Red Man Blue Man, I Am Waiting For My Dogs To Die, Paris Was Good, and The Wild Grass. I'm really happy with their choices.