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a donutLong John

also: bar · finger doughnut · cream stick · éclair (as sold)

Midwestern by default. In California the same thing is a bar.

A bar-shaped raised donut, glazed all over or iced on top, sometimes filled with custard or cream.

The story Cited · wp-long-john-doughnut

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 it is done Cited · wp-long-john-doughnut

Cut from sheeted raised dough into rectangles, proofed, fried, then glazed or iced. Filling goes in from the end with a nozzle.

Today Cited · wp-long-john-doughnut

A filled Long John is one of the few donuts a shop will cut open for you to prove what is inside.

The particulars

doughyeast
finishiced
regionThe Upper Midwest, Texas, The United States
confidencehigh · updated 2026-09-16

Who it runs with

donutsMaple barThe West Coast name and the coast's favourite icing.and of this page it says: The same bar under the name most of the country uses.donutsBismarckThe other filled one, round instead of long.storiesBar or Long JohnThe map of what to call it.and of this page it says: The pastry.the kitchenThe fillerHow the custard gets in.

Who talks about it

donuts · on this pageBavarian creamThe bar version of the same filling.words · on this pageBarThe record for the pastry.

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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