Pink BoxWords (13)

long john, finger doughnut, cream stick

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

kruller, crulla

In North America: either a small loaf- or stick-shaped cake donut, or the choux ring sold as a French cruller.

yesterday's, seconds

Yesterday's donuts, sold cheap.

donut, doughnut

Two spellings of the same word. Doughnut is the older form and still dominates in print; donut is American, shorter, and on more signs.

dunk

Putting a donut in coffee. For twenty-odd years, an organised pastime with officers.

fried cake

An older American name for the cake donut, still on some signs and menus.

hot light, hot doughnuts now

A lit sign saying donuts are coming out of the fryer at that moment.

sprinkles, hundreds and thousands, nonpareils

The long rod-shaped sprinkles, above all the chocolate ones. The tiny balls are nonpareils.

independent, family shop

A shop owned and worked by the family that runs it, as against a franchise or a company-owned store.

oly koek, oliekoek, oil cake

The Dutch fried dough ball that came to New Amsterdam, and the American donut's direct ancestor: sweetened dough fried in fat, with no hole.

confectioner's sugar, icing sugar, 10X

Sugar ground fine and cut with a little starch to stop it caking. The base of every glaze and the finish on beignets, malasadas and pączki.

a dozen, half dozen, baker's dozen

The unit donuts are sold in, and the reason for the box.

the middle, the ring

The absence in the middle of a ring donut, and the argument about who first made one.