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  "name": "Bar or Long John",
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   "what to call it",
   "the word map"
  ],
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  "what": "One rectangular raised donut, at least five names, and a map of the country hiding inside a bakery case."
 },
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  {
   "h": "The words",
   "text": "— **Long John** — the Midwest, Canada and Texas.\n— **Bar** — the West Coast: maple bar, chocolate bar, filled bar.\n— **Éclair** — the Mid-Atlantic and central Canada, where it is marketed that way even though an éclair is choux pastry with fondant and a Long John is yeast dough.\n— **Finger doughnut**, and **cream stick** when filled — parts of the Midwest.\n— **Maple creamstick**, **maple bismarck**, **maple-glazed Long John** — the same pastry again, named by its icing."
  },
  {
   "h": "Other words that move",
   "text": "**Bismarck** for a filled round holds in the Upper Midwest, where a case label will say it and nothing else; elsewhere it is a jelly donut. **Fry cake** for a cake donut survives on older signs. **Jimmies** for chocolate sprinkles belongs to Boston, Philadelphia and New England and is first recorded in 1930. **Bear claw** is Western American English, first attested in a Sacramento bakery advertisement on 13 March 1914. **Kolache** in Texas usually means a klobasnek, which Czech Texans will tell you is a different thing."
  },
  {
   "h": "Why this matters to a directory",
   "text": "A search that only matches the word a shop happens to print will miss half the country. This site's search carries the synonym groups above, so a search for one name returns shops and pages using the others."
  }
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   "to": "bismarck",
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   "to": "bear-claw",
   "as": "A Western word with a date.",
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