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[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 67 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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...

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Doughnuts are typically made from a straight piece of dough shaped into a circle, not a hole punched.

Doughnut holes are usually just bits of the dough, prior to forming into a circle, that's cut up and fried

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

WHAT.

You mean they don't have a donut hole puncher that punches out the hole??

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I have only ever rolled doughnuts, but it seems some people practice darker arts...

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago
[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The nut in the word is to already show that it is in a nut shape. So it would be doughball and doughnut.

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

What part of the UK are they called doughballs? ive never heard them called that.

Only reference I can think of is Pizza express' dough balls, but they're a savoury dough ball rather than sweet like a doughnut.