• javiwhite@feddit.uk
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    19 days ago

    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…

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        19 days ago

        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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          19 days ago

          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