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Yes - frosting.  Not all "American" donuts have frosting or filling.  I like the ones covered in powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar.  They are very dense, cake-like.  They are good with milk, and I eat them when I am sick.  I don't know why.  They've no nutritional value, but I crave them when I am sick.  I also like the kind filled with custard and covered in chocolate.  They're basically a very low-end eclair.  mmmm...  custard...

Of course, I will take a croissant over a donut any time.  And after the elections, I could happily never see another box of Dunkin Donuts (worst crap for food offenders ever) for the rest of my life.

Home-made donuts are good.  I guess I am surprised, because my mom made home-made donuts when I was a kid, and when I went to Russia, lo and behold, they made identical donuts there.  I just assumed everyone ate donuts!  lol.

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by poemless on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 01:02:55 PM EST
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Animal fat and sugar can be helpful when you are sick. Nutrition isn't everything.

Depends in what way you are sick. But I am an advocate of the idea that in unusual circumstances (like being sick) then listen to your body, because it knows.

I am a war puritan child. There was no sugar when I was a kid. Thus my behaviour never became disordered ;-)

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 01:14:31 PM EST
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Ive been cured by v mild diabetes. Almost never eat anything sweet. I can't cope with raw sugar rushes so avoid such things. I can only eat a doughnut if I can intercept the maker and stop them rolling it in the sugar.

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 01:48:55 PM EST
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I was always wary of salt. I would always cook and put out the Maldon Sea Salt for people to adjust my creation to their own taste.

But then I had all these routine tests and discovered I was a bit short in the salt department. So I've had a packet of 'Kartano' (Manor) kettle-cooked crisps every Friday and really enjoyed it ;-)

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 02:27:47 PM EST
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They have "artisinal" kettle cooked crisps over here. I like it when they say hand-made or hand cooked; does that mean that somebody took each crisp and dunked it in the hot fat with their bare hand ? Or do we mean a human hand pressed the switch that lowered several tons of machined potato into a cauldron of boiling oil ?

These things are never clear

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 02:33:22 PM EST
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I liked the idea that Pringles escaped some court case or other, because their industrial chips are not made of potato as such, but some kind of starchy 'massa' unrelated to potato.

Marketing...Oh, I am going to hell and I love the thought of it.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 02:40:39 PM EST
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Back during the mercifully short period when I was pretending to be an engineer, we were shown a project which counted fruit distributions in fruit salad. (Really - people were being paid good money to consult on this.)

Some of the fruit is bleached. For other strategic fruit marketing destinations, such as pie and doughnut fillings, it may also be pulped and reconstituted into square-ised pseudo-cube lumps.

The natural colour of the bright red cherries in tinned fruit salad was zombie-grey. They only became lipstick red after they'd been marinated in colouring for a few hours.

Things may have changed now, but I'd guess that a lot of what comes out of food processing factories is still rather disturbing in its naked state.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 03:02:21 PM EST
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Breakfast Oatmeal comes with several types of dried "fruit" including apple,  "peach," "strawberry" etc.  But neither strawberries nor peaches would hold up for the process while apples would do so just fine.  So they take apple chips, dye them red or yellow and add artificial flavors that make them taste remarkably like peach or strawberries. My palate cannot tell the difference.  The clue is on the ingredient list.  Fortunately I am quite satisfied with apple and cinnamon as my standard fare.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 09:18:18 PM EST
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