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a long oneBar or Long John

also: what to call it · the word map

One rectangular raised donut, at least five names, and a map of the country hiding inside a bakery case.

The words

— *Long John — the Midwest, Canada and Texas. — Bar — the West Coast: maple bar, chocolate bar, filled bar. — 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. — Finger doughnut, and cream stick when filled — parts of the Midwest. — Maple creamstick, maple bismarck, maple-glazed Long John* — the same pastry again, named by its icing.

Other words that move

*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.

Why this matters to a directory

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.

The particulars

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regionThe United States
confidencehigh · updated 2026-09-16

Who it runs with

wordsBarThe word.and of this page it says: The map of the word.donutsLong JohnThe pastry.and of this page it says: The map of what to call it.donutsMaple barThe coast's version.and of this page it says: Where the country changes the word.donutsBismarckThe filled round with a regional name.wordsJimmiesAnother regional word.donutsBear clawA Western word with a date.

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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