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 "id": "long-john",
 "type": "donut",
 "names": {
  "name": "Long John",
  "aliases": [
   "bar",
   "finger doughnut",
   "cream stick",
   "éclair (as sold)"
  ],
  "said": "Midwestern by default. In California the same thing is a bar."
 },
 "region": [
  "upper-midwest",
  "texas",
  "us"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "dough": "yeast",
  "finish": "iced"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A bar-shaped raised donut, glazed all over or iced on top, sometimes filled with custard or cream.",
  "story": "Names for it are regional in a way few American foods still are. Long John dominates the Midwest, Canada and Texas. The Mid-Atlantic and central Canada market it as an éclair; the pastries look alike but an éclair is steam-puffed choux with fondant, and a Long John is yeast. The West Coast says bar. Parts of the Midwest say finger doughnut, or cream stick when it is filled.",
  "how": "Cut from sheeted raised dough into rectangles, proofed, fried, then glazed or iced. Filling goes in from the end with a nozzle.",
  "today": "A filled Long John is one of the few donuts a shop will cut open for you to prove what is inside."
 },
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   "to": "maple-bar",
   "as": "The West Coast name and the coast's favourite icing.",
   "rel": "donut"
  },
  {
   "to": "bismarck",
   "as": "The other filled one, round instead of long.",
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   "as": "The map of what to call it.",
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   "as": "How the custard gets in.",
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 "confidence": "high",
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "A bar-shaped raised donut, glazed all over or iced on top, sometimes filled with custard or cream.",
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   "key": "upper-midwest",
   "name": "The Upper Midwest",
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   "note": "Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas; bismarcks, long johns, church-basement fry"
  },
  {
   "key": "texas",
   "name": "Texas",
   "state": "TX",
   "note": "Houston, Dallas, San Antonio; kolaches, klobasniky, and Cambodian- and Vietnamese-American counters"
  },
  {
   "key": "us",
   "name": "The United States",
   "state": null,
   "note": "use when a node belongs to the whole country"
  }
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   "to": "maple-bar",
   "type": "donut",
   "name": "Maple bar",
   "as": "The West Coast name and the coast's favourite icing.",
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  {
   "to": "bismarck",
   "type": "donut",
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   "to": "bar-or-long-john",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "Bar or Long John",
   "as": "The map of what to call it.",
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  {
   "to": "filling-injector",
   "type": "kitchen",
   "name": "The filler",
   "as": "How the custard gets in.",
   "rel": "kitchen"
  }
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   "kind": "web",
   "title": "Long John (doughnut) — Wikipedia",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_John_(doughnut)",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  }
 ],
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   "tier": "cited",
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   "tier": "cited",
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   "tier": "cited",
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 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "bavarian-cream",
   "type": "donut",
   "name": "Bavarian cream",
   "as": "The bar version of the same filling.",
   "rel": "donut"
  },
  {
   "from": "maple-bar",
   "type": "donut",
   "name": "Maple bar",
   "as": "The same bar under the name most of the country uses.",
   "rel": "donut"
  },
  {
   "from": "bar",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "Bar",
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