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.
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.
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
This is not always correct
Typically, but not always.
Though if you bake donuts then you’re a heretic