they don't call donut holes "donut holes" in NL so I confused my husband very badly when I called them donuts, he said "how are they donuts? there's no hole" and I insisted that they *are* the hole
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@0xabad1dea I was just as confused as your husband after reading that toot. This might help clear up the confusion for others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donut_hole
@0xabad1dea I started a big controversy by calling oliebollen “swol donut holes”
(if you're curious, the Dutch label on them says "mini berliner" as the product name and "mini beignet" in the ingredients)
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@0xabad1dea Jumbo calls them popdots. No idea why.
@0xabad1dea wait, Mini Berliner? Are they filled with jam?
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@funkylab it had speculaas paste inside, yeah. I don't think anyone around here really sells donut holes without filling.
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@0xabad1dea Hm, maybe there's quarkballen (or similar, this is vibe-based dutching), which are donut-hole-sized, fried in fat, quark-based dough balls. It'd be a bit surprising if there's not some small spherical plain dough deep-fried Dutch food… knowing the deep-fry shops that I used to visit across the border from Aachen.
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@0xabad1dea ah yes, Oliebol.
@0xabad1dea yeah then the Berliner terminology makes sense. I'm not sure about the US English terminology for this stuff… In Germany¹ "Berliner" are ⌀10cm (near-spherical, non-toroidal) donut with a red fruit jelly filling (the most adventurous bakeries might offer vanilla custard filling).
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¹ Germany without:
- Berlin, where they're called Pfannkuchen, which have nothing to do with what Pfannkuchen/pancake/pannekoeken means anywhere else
- Bavaria, where the same is called Krapfen
@0xabad1dea the pastry made of negative-space
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