donut quality crotchetiness

[adularia]

Gah. Dear self: HFCS is bad for you. Yes, really. Even if your coworker buys an entire box of Dunkin' Donuts holes to share with everyone, you WILL get a headache from eating one

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[fridaypeach]

No good doughnuts but if you can have wheat..you get the best bagels :)

[adularia]

True!

[caladri]

Food obsessions are good. Food obsessions that get one cooking are even better. I cook two or three times a day these days, which offers a lot of time to perfect all sorts of dishes. Annoyingly, I cook much better punjabi food than the local Indian restaurants (and my bhatura/puri are infinitely better, seldom soaked in oil, never undercooked or overcooked) and punjabi food isn't even my core interest! Which is actually frustrating. Go to the Indian place at the Olympia farmer's market, get bhatura chole, and just find myself unable to eat it due to the intense disappointment. How lame is that?

Also, I really want to like matsutake, and know I've liked them before, but the ones we got locally have the taste of licking one hell of a pine forest. I'm not sure I like that. Sigh.

[heinousbitca]

i hella prefer your puri chole to most i've had but i think we've discussed this.

now i want Indian buffet for lunch, though. i live near a REALLY good Indian place and it would make me very happy in that lentil-laden sort of way.

[digitalemur]

I am far from any Indian food, curse you all.

[heinousbitca]

india house! http://www.indiahousenorthampton.com/

i mean it's not the best, and the service is slooooow, but it beats the pants off no Indian food at all, and their saag paneer is to die for.

[heinousbitca]

Dunkin Donuts is great for coffee and awful for everything else. I miss their coffee hardcore, though.

That said, i know, or have it on good as in ex-girlfriend authority, that at least one mighty-o doughnuts operative has been reportedly scouring NYC. Mighty-O? Now those are some gooood doughnuts. no high-fructose poison syrup, no nasty hydrogenated anything, and, oh yeah, they're vegan.

[zzyzx_xyzzy]

Huh. yami_mcmoots complains that there is no good donut in Seattle and was appreciative of Dunkin' Donuts on her New York trip. Then again when she gets a doughnut craving it's all about the refined sugars and cream fillings. I'll agree that there is no Beard Papa creampuff around here.

[heinousbitca]

I'll agree that there is no Beard Papa creampuff around here.

SOON.

there's one going in in Uwajimaya Seattle. thus, Uwajimaya Bellevue will have the to-die-for ramen, but Uwajimaya Seattle will have Beard Papa's.

...and i'll still shop at Maruta Shoten.

[northernflights]

For me, at least, it's not corn syrup in particular but too-much-sugar in general. I mean, we're taught that it's normal to go and consume more sugar than we ordinarily have in our bloodstream, multiple times daily, like it's no big thing... and then we wonder why people get Type 2 diabetes.

[northernflights]

And, in essence, the treatment is to stop eating the simple carbohydrates that don't appear in any hunter-gatherer's diet. My argument: the genetic variation isn't really a "disease," but society might be.