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

Say bar in California, Long John in Iowa, éclair in Baltimore, and you will be handed the same pastry.

Barthe shape: a bar of dough, cut rectangular rather than rung

A rectangular raised donut, glazed or iced, sometimes filled.

Root. the shape: a bar of dough, cut rectangular rather than rung
Long John, éclair, finger doughnut and cream stick name the same pastry in other regions. Cited · wp-long-john-doughnut

The story Cited · wp-long-john-doughnut

Names for it are regional. Long John runs through the Midwest, Canada and Texas; the Mid-Atlantic and central Canada market it as an éclair, though an éclair is choux and this is yeast; the West Coast says bar, and specifies: maple bar, chocolate bar, filled bar. Parts of the Midwest say finger doughnut, or cream stick when filled.

The particulars

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regionThe United States
confidencehigh · updated 2026-09-16

Who it runs with

donutsLong JohnThe record for the pastry.donutsMaple barThe West Coast's version.storiesBar or Long JohnThe map of the word.and of this page it says: The word.

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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