To be honest, they should be called "Donut Plugs"
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2025
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Or all hook and loop, velcro.
Or all cotton swabs, q-tips.
Or all face tissues, kleenex.
There's plenty of examples of trademark names being used generically. Coke, hoover, Jacuzzi
Bullshit, I've never directly asked my drug dealer for coke, we use code words.
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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!!!
Or like calling all facial tissue "kleenex"
Let me photoshop this picture of a kleenex to look like it's stuck to a velcro strip...
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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.
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That there is a Timbit
a Tim Hortons™️ Timbit™️
Doughnut balls
We all know the holes are sent to Valhalla.
Am I the only one that finds the whole "fake British words" genre of meme painfully unfunny?
Maybe if Brits would stop saying ridiculous things lol
You go enjoy your hushpuppies, elephant ears, bear claws, snickerdoodles and hootenannies.
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You have to say snoggletarts out loud with a British accent.
Yes
In Japan they’re just doughnut balls. Mister Donut calls them “pops.”
*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
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I call them dough nuts.
I just call them type II diabetes
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