cinema food; doughnuts
On the subject of sweet food:
A while back I went to the cinema with my cousin and her friends. Somewhere in Michigan.
She went up to get munchies and asked us what we wanted. Friends asked for popcorn. I asked for an icecream. Friends and cousin looked at me like I'd grown a second head.
Indeed, the movie theater sold popcorn and fizzy drinks, no icecream, no chocolates.
Is this normal throughout the US or just a back-of-beyond place?
I found it particularly wierd as US icecream brands - Baskin-Robbins, Haagen-Dazs, now Ben&Jerry's - all became popular in the UK from having counters in cinemas!
Also, I bought cakes to take to work last week because it was my birthday. One box was "American-style donuts", but on investigation they were yeasty buns filled with boiled raspberry jam, coated in granulated sugar - ie a classic British doughnut. Are these common in the US or is it just Sainsbury's getting carried away with branding all its junk food as "American style", using some kind of twisted logic that being American makes it twice as bad for you?
IME, US donuts are lighter, not yeasted, and tend to have creamy fillings not boiled jelly, and are powder sugared or glazed. Both US and UK donuts also come in ring form - we used Krispy Kreme rings for donut-bobbing at Halloween, tied to string.
Also do USers ever use the spelling "doughnut"?
A while back I went to the cinema with my cousin and her friends. Somewhere in Michigan.
She went up to get munchies and asked us what we wanted. Friends asked for popcorn. I asked for an icecream. Friends and cousin looked at me like I'd grown a second head.
Indeed, the movie theater sold popcorn and fizzy drinks, no icecream, no chocolates.
Is this normal throughout the US or just a back-of-beyond place?
I found it particularly wierd as US icecream brands - Baskin-Robbins, Haagen-Dazs, now Ben&Jerry's - all became popular in the UK from having counters in cinemas!
Also, I bought cakes to take to work last week because it was my birthday. One box was "American-style donuts", but on investigation they were yeasty buns filled with boiled raspberry jam, coated in granulated sugar - ie a classic British doughnut. Are these common in the US or is it just Sainsbury's getting carried away with branding all its junk food as "American style", using some kind of twisted logic that being American makes it twice as bad for you?
IME, US donuts are lighter, not yeasted, and tend to have creamy fillings not boiled jelly, and are powder sugared or glazed. Both US and UK donuts also come in ring form - we used Krispy Kreme rings for donut-bobbing at Halloween, tied to string.
Also do USers ever use the spelling "doughnut"?