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[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh you mean [proprietary brand name]? Haha can you tell I'm from Canada just by how easily it is to market dumb shit to me?

It's actually the only thing i heard them called for most of my life and had never really considered how pathetic it is. The term donut hole is perfect and accurately describes the item!

[–] forcefemjdwon@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh you mean [proprietary brand name]? Haha can you tell I'm from Canada just by how easily it is to market dumb shit to me?

This is done in the US as well, with a different brand name

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

I've never heard anyone call them "munchkins" as a generic term, personally

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

wait what are they in america? i've only ever heard them called donut holes

[–] Frivolous_Beatnik@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're just donut holes as far as I know, but we have genericized trademarks like Kleenex, Jello, and Band-Aids. Depending on your region people will call soda Coke, etc etc

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

oh i see what you mean, yeah, totally

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Oh hell yeah i love brand names that become ubiquitous phrases

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You could also call them dobolts.

[–] context@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

a dobolt would need to have a doscrew tip and dowrench head and be long enough to fit through the two dobjects that you're affixing dogether

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Dostuds, pop a donut on either end

[–] varmint@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

In Canada Tim Hortons won a linguistic victory. These are Tim Bits

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

Love eating Tim's bits

[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

Can confirm. I acknowledge that “donut holes” is valid, but my brain looks at this picture and says “oh, Timbits.”

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

American corporations love to divide and conquer

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Timmies has been ass for years anyway, anyone who says different is just coping. Their coffee is dogwater, their donuts are overpriced trash, all of their food is overpriced and mid even at its best. The only thing they have going for them is their marketing that has turned canadians into sleeper agents that have a Pavlovian response to the phrase "double double"

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

my partner and I visited Canada last summer and went to Tim Horton's and I must say I agree with the coffee and food descriptions. I didn't try their donuts though.

I don't think I saw any of their advertising while we were there but I'm sure I wouldn't be immune

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

If you aren't canadian you might be immune, all their advertising relies on Canadian patriotism, it's literally just "Canada = Tim Hortons! Look at how Canadian™ we are! Real Canadians™ drink Tim Hortons^®^!" type shit, but I gotta admit it's worked for them so far. Tons of people have Tim's as their default coffee place just because the tim-doctrination runs deep.

Disclaimer: I do like an occasional Ice Cap

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

hell nah tim didnt invent donut holes

[–] ferristriangle@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Linguistics cares not for invention

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Kleenex didn't invent the tissue (I assume, I didn't Google it) but now it's basically a generic term. Same goes for timbits, people still call 'em timbits when they're from other places

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Same with a weedeater. Nobody says "string trimmer".

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

idk i don’t call a tissue a kleenex either tho, or a soda a coke etc

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

Germans out here munching on their Quarkbällchen

[–] Pili@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

If the other part is a dough nut, shouldn't these be dough bolts?

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

We don't have those in Australia. All we have is British food but even more stale

[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well you should open a place that sells them and call them like "Toppy Drops" or some other weird ass shit.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

That's a british name, australia would call them something like "friends (formerly [racial slur])"

[–] WrongOnTheInternet@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

We do have them here, named either as donut holes, unnamed samplers or as loukoumades (or the five other different ways to say it as you move further east from Greece, but loukoumades is definitely the most common)

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

That's not true, you also have hot dogs but served on sliced bread. And uhhhh bread with sprinkles

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Donuts are fun to make, but it is a time consuming and messy process from scratch. Most days you're better off doing the Chinese-American restaurant method and tossing some Pillsbury biscuits in some oil, tossing them in sugar afterwards.

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Also a great technique for campfires.

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Donuts make me go nuts

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] entropicdrift 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I believe the proper term is "taste-icles"

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

Donut Mountain Oysters

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Nah they aren't metallic enough

in Essex they is "Gary Glitter's Treacle-coated Bollocks" init.