The formatting makes it look like Hammy is confessing to doing that, but the actual drawing suggests that dad is more on the right track, since those donuts have holes (where donuts usually have holes, not in the side for the jelly)…
The eye roll confirms that Hammy is the guilty party.
There’s no wrong way to eat a Reese’s
Okay, but why do Mom and Zoe look disgusted? Do non-jelly donuts taste objectively worse than jelly donuts?
P.S. In addition to New Year’s Eve, jelly doughnuts are also a traditional treat for the German version of Mardi Gras (called “Karneval” or “Fasching“, depending on the region). In some circles, it is a customary prank to replace one of the jelly doughnuts on a tray containing a dozen with one that has mustard inside instead. I believe that there are even bakeries that will set this prank up to order.
Kamino Neko — I think those are collapsed dimples, not holes.
Now THAT’s an EWWWWW!
Jelly donuts aren’t frosted; they’re sugared.
Some jelly donuts are frosted, IME. Hey, Kilby, is the mustard a really bad taste, or is it just unexpected? (She asked, thinking of trying…)
‘Some jelly donuts are frosted’
In all my years of attending meetings and bringing in donuts to work myself, I’ve NEVER seen a frosted jelly donut. Wonder if it’s a regional/international thing to do so?
@ Chak – I’ve never bitten into one, but I think getting a full mouthful of any type of mustard would be an incredibly rude awakening when one is expecting sweet jelly. As for glazing: in Germany, there are generally only two kinds of standard fillings: either strawberry jelly, or plum preserves. The external coating is correspondingly standardized to show the contents: either granular or powdered sugar, respectively. I really miss the chocolate glazed doughnuts with vanilla custard filling that used to be available in suburban D.C.
@Kilby, I miss them too. I can get them here, but they don’t mix with my diabetes.
Yeh – around here jelly donuts ( aka Puczki) are more often iced than not.
Not a big fan of jelly donuts. I do like custard-filled, especially the so-call “Boston Cream”, which has chocolate icing.
Some people like jalapeno jelly on their toast. So I suppose some people like mustard donuts.
Boston Creme (or Kreme) donuts were already mentioned. I seem to remember Dunkin’s having iced filled donuts?
Powers, I’d be rather disgusted if I bit into a donut that a kid had been orally disembowelling. Who knows what spit and stuff backwashed into it?
Oh, but the timing is wrong for that. I guess that plain donut dough was so vivid a contrast to the expected sweetness that it was shocking.
@Kilby, That Cul-de-Sac was an actual laugh out loud for me. Perfect.
Is that eye-roll the visual equivalent of the “innocent whistling” trope? :-)
Dunkin Donuts used to have (don’t know if still do) apple filled doughnuts with cinnamon/sugar sprinkled on the top.
Kilby – For years we would work out a trip to Lancaster, PA the home of the Pennsylvania (Dutch) Germans timed to get faschnacht before Ash Wednesday. When we were not able to do that we would go to Dunkin and get a donut each on Fat Tuesday/Shrove Tuesday. One year Krispy Creme had opened here and I went and bought same for the holiday – what a disappointment, horrible. (I guess others agreed, it is now a bank.)
We can no longer have the faschnacht (or the doughnut alternative) but husband has bee following a bakery we like (mostly to look at these days) and their posts about their making their faschnachts this year.
Glad the PA places never had mustard in their faschnachts (or we were lucky enough to get any) as I hate mustard and would never have eaten a doughnut again after being terribly ill from the mustard.
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The formatting makes it look like Hammy is confessing to doing that, but the actual drawing suggests that dad is more on the right track, since those donuts have holes (where donuts usually have holes, not in the side for the jelly)…
The eye roll confirms that Hammy is the guilty party.
There’s no wrong way to eat a Reese’s
Okay, but why do Mom and Zoe look disgusted? Do non-jelly donuts taste objectively worse than jelly donuts?
P.S. In addition to New Year’s Eve, jelly doughnuts are also a traditional treat for the German version of Mardi Gras (called “Karneval” or “Fasching“, depending on the region). In some circles, it is a customary prank to replace one of the jelly doughnuts on a tray containing a dozen with one that has mustard inside instead. I believe that there are even bakeries that will set this prank up to order.
Kamino Neko — I think those are collapsed dimples, not holes.
Now THAT’s an EWWWWW!
Jelly donuts aren’t frosted; they’re sugared.
Some jelly donuts are frosted, IME. Hey, Kilby, is the mustard a really bad taste, or is it just unexpected? (She asked, thinking of trying…)
‘Some jelly donuts are frosted’
In all my years of attending meetings and bringing in donuts to work myself, I’ve NEVER seen a frosted jelly donut. Wonder if it’s a regional/international thing to do so?
For example . . .
https://www.google.com/search?q=jelly+donut&client=firefox-b&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj2ltPs9OPgAhUBUKwKHbEnAsYQ_AUIDigB&biw=1128&bih=620
“I’ve NEVER seen a frosted jelly donut.”
I have. Glazed, too.
Frosted jelly donuts:
https://billsdonutshop.com/white-iced-jelly-donuts/
@ Chak – I’ve never bitten into one, but I think getting a full mouthful of any type of mustard would be an incredibly rude awakening when one is expecting sweet jelly. As for glazing: in Germany, there are generally only two kinds of standard fillings: either strawberry jelly, or plum preserves. The external coating is correspondingly standardized to show the contents: either granular or powdered sugar, respectively. I really miss the chocolate glazed doughnuts with vanilla custard filling that used to be available in suburban D.C.
@Kilby, I miss them too. I can get them here, but they don’t mix with my diabetes.
Yeh – around here jelly donuts ( aka Puczki) are more often iced than not.
Not a big fan of jelly donuts. I do like custard-filled, especially the so-call “Boston Cream”, which has chocolate icing.
Some people like jalapeno jelly on their toast. So I suppose some people like mustard donuts.
Boston Creme (or Kreme) donuts were already mentioned. I seem to remember Dunkin’s having iced filled donuts?
Powers, I’d be rather disgusted if I bit into a donut that a kid had been orally disembowelling. Who knows what spit and stuff backwashed into it?
Oh, but the timing is wrong for that. I guess that plain donut dough was so vivid a contrast to the expected sweetness that it was shocking.
Getting back to the subject of “eye rolls“:
@Kilby, That Cul-de-Sac was an actual laugh out loud for me. Perfect.
Is that eye-roll the visual equivalent of the “innocent whistling” trope? :-)
Dunkin Donuts used to have (don’t know if still do) apple filled doughnuts with cinnamon/sugar sprinkled on the top.
Kilby – For years we would work out a trip to Lancaster, PA the home of the Pennsylvania (Dutch) Germans timed to get faschnacht before Ash Wednesday. When we were not able to do that we would go to Dunkin and get a donut each on Fat Tuesday/Shrove Tuesday. One year Krispy Creme had opened here and I went and bought same for the holiday – what a disappointment, horrible. (I guess others agreed, it is now a bank.)
We can no longer have the faschnacht (or the doughnut alternative) but husband has bee following a bakery we like (mostly to look at these days) and their posts about their making their faschnachts this year.
Glad the PA places never had mustard in their faschnachts (or we were lucky enough to get any) as I hate mustard and would never have eaten a doughnut again after being terribly ill from the mustard.