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a donutDonut holes

also: holes · munchkins · donut bites

A bag of holes is the only thing in the shop named after an absence.

The centres cut out of ring donuts, fried and sold by the bag — or, more often now, made on purpose from the same dough or batter and never cut from anything.

The story Cited · wp-donut-hole

When a cutter with two concentric circles came into use around 1870, every ring made a small disc of dough as a by-product. That disc could be fried and sold, or thrown back into the batch. The name sticks to the piece that was removed, not the space it left, which is why the thing you buy is the opposite of what you asked for.

How it is done Cited · wp-donut-hole

Cut rings; collect the centres; fry them a shorter time than the rings, since they are smaller and rounder; roll in sugar or glaze in a tumbler.

Today Inference

Chains sell them as a named product in boxes by the dozen and half-dozen. Independent shops more often sell them by the bag, by weight or by scoop, and cheaper.

The particulars

doughboth
finishsugared
regionThe United States
confidencehigh · updated 2026-09-16

On the label

what was readusda
pepper or chile?
vinegar?
butter or oil?
tomato?
sugar?
soy donut?
mustard?
Scovillenobody publishes one for this donut

Read from this page, 2026-09-17. USDA SR Legacy 172758, "Doughnuts, yeast-leavened, glazed, enriched (includes honey buns)", published per 100 g and scaled here to the portion USDA itself lists as "doughnut hole" — 13 g. No ingredient list is published for these generic rows, so the ingredient ranks are null. A shop's own donut is not this donut; this is the closest published measurement of the kind. Every donut measured is on the donut page.

Who it runs with

donutsGlazed raisedThe ring the hole came out of.and of this page it says: The middles, fried and sold by the bag.wordsThe holeThe word, and the argument about who punched the first one.and of this page it says: What the missing part is sold as.donutsCake donutCut the same way on the other side of the case.

Who talks about it

the kitchen · on this pageCutting by handWhat the small ring leaves behind.

Where we got it

Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.

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