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2d ago

They're DONUT HOLES

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PugJesus @lemmy.world

2d ago

They're DONUT HOLES

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*doughnut, not do nut.
- 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
  
  Damn i have always had it in my head as dough knot. And it never looks right when i write it out.
  
  If its more correct, then why have I been nutting in the dough all this time?

those kinda look like greek loukmas/Turkish lokmas

That there is a Timbit
- a Tim Hortons™️ Timbit™️

Am I the only one that finds the whole "fake British words" genre of meme painfully unfunny?
- Yes
- Maybe if Brits would stop saying ridiculous things lol
  
  You go enjoy your hushpuppies, elephant ears, bear claws, snickerdoodles and hootenannies.
- You have to say snoggletarts out loud with a British accent.

- 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.
  
  I'll come up the apples and have a butchers, but if you're telling porkies then there's gonna be some argy bargy.
  
  None of these would surprise me given ij baby/toddler context!

To be honest, they should be called "Donut Plugs"
- Make sure yours are flared before you eat them or they could get stuck
- Mouth beads
  
  But then 5 of them would need to be connected in a line, right?
- Donut bungs.
- Donut swarf.

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

Tim bits is what we use in Canada
- What? They’re donut holes, Timbits is only from Tim hortons, that’s a trademark name.
  It would be like calling all breakfast sandwiches McMuffins dude.
  
  Show a Canadian this picture, ask them what it is, and you will get a 99.9% answer of Tim bits.
  You may be technically correct, but you're wrong. Lol.
  
  I've never once heard anyone ever refer to them as anything other than "Timbits", just as I've never heard anyone ask me to pass them a "facial tissue", and I've never heard of "hook and loop fastener" shoes. The word got genericized.
  
  Or all hook and loop, velcro.
  Or all cotton swabs, q-tips.
  Or all face tissues, kleenex.
  
  Sorry dude, they're timbits
  
  There's plenty of examples of trademark names being used generically. Coke, hoover, Jacuzzi
  
  Or like calling all facial tissue "kleenex"
  
  They're called 'timbits' to honour the founder who died in a horrific car accident. All that was left of him were bits of Tim.
  
  Yeah that’s stupid that’d be like calling printable camera film a Polaroid. NO ONE would EVER do that!!!
  
  Let me photoshop this picture of a kleenex to look like it's stuck to a velcro strip...
  
  Google, xerox, velcro, escalator are all trademark names as well, but people use them in a general sense. Sometimes trademark names become so popular that they get used in a general way, I don't know what's confusing you, this is a fairly common phenomenon

Timbits. even if they are not form Timmy's
- Tim Horton's sucks now so they should always be "not from Timmy's"
- Dunkin Donuts called them Munchkins, so I sometimes call any donut roles Munchkins.
  
  All my adhesive bandages are band-aids

Deez nut holes

Munchkins. Idc if they aren't from Dunkin'.
- Grew up near a Dunkin.
  They Munchkins and donut hole purists can shove it.

Doughnut balls
We all know the holes are sent to Valhalla.

in French: pets de nonne (nun's farts)
- France really is doing it to itself

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.
- 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.

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

Bread Berries

I call them dough nuts.

Crikey! Sugared chimney sweep nuts!

Beetus
- There is no drug more powerful than a powdered doughnut

I just call them type II diabetes

Malasadadas

Fritule.

Benedict Cumberbatches

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