It's called a doughnut hole because it's implied to be the piece of dough that was punched out to make a regular circular doughnut that has a hole in it.

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javiwhite 30 points 2 years ago

Oh I understand that. I was just being facetious; my point was more to do with the definition of a hole, and how it's used here to describe something that definitely is not a hole.

If we're pedantic, then the doughnut hole is the middle bit of the original doughnut, now that this part has been punched out.

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FauxLiving 5 points 2 years ago

Doughnuts are typically made from a straight piece of dough shaped into a circle, not a hole punched.

Doughnut holes are usually just bits of the dough, prior to forming into a circle, that's cut up and fried

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Microplasticbrain 7 points 2 years ago

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moakley 1 point 2 years ago

WHAT.

You mean they don't have a donut hole puncher that punches out the hole??

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h3mlocke 1 point 2 years ago

🙏

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garbagebagel 4 points 2 years ago

But how do you differentiate between a doughnut ( o ) and a doughnut o. I'd be so pissed if I asked for a doughnut and someone handed me this tiny shit.

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javiwhite 6 points 2 years ago

One without a hole is a doughnut. One with is a doughnut ring.

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macaw_dean_settle -5 points 2 years ago

The nut in the word is to already show that it is in a nut shape. So it would be doughball and doughnut.

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javiwhite 3 points 2 years ago

What part of the UK are they called doughballs? ive never heard them called that.

Only reference I can think of is Pizza express' dough balls, but they're a savoury dough ball rather than sweet like a doughnut.

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Grandwolf319 56 points 2 years ago

Tim bits is what we use in Canada

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SchmidtGenetics 11 points 2 years ago

What? They’re donut holes, Timbits is only from Tim hortons, that’s a trademark name.

It would be like calling all breakfast sandwiches McMuffins dude.

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skozzii 49 points 2 years ago

Show a Canadian this picture, ask them what it is, and you will get a 99.9% answer of Tim bits.

You may be technically correct, but you're wrong. Lol.

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T0RB1T 1 point 2 years ago

Guess I'm the 0.1%

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SchmidtGenetics -18 points 2 years ago

Sure, let’s go down to McDonald’s and get “timbits”.

That was because tim hortons was the only place for a while, that’s stopped being the case about a decade ago when other places started offering them too.

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lobut 25 points 2 years ago

I know what you're saying but at the same time, I'm living in the GTA. Everyone I know calls them timbits, correctly or incorrectly.

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Spicy_Canada_Dry 5 points 2 years ago

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IrateAnteater 35 points 2 years ago

I've never once heard anyone ever refer to them as anything other than "Timbits", just as I've never heard anyone ask me to pass them a "facial tissue", and I've never heard of "hook and loop fastener" shoes. The word got genericized.

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SchmidtGenetics -22 points 2 years ago

That was because Tim’s was the only place, that’s since been changed a decade ago and hasn’t been the case since then.

It’s not a genericized term like Kleenex and escalator, sorry.

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iAmTheTot 24 points 2 years ago

In every place I've been to in Canada and every to every Canadian I've known, yes it is.

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IrateAnteater 16 points 2 years ago

It is in Canada. You show any Canadian the picture in this post, and they will tell you it's a timbit.

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Luci 22 points 2 years ago

Sorry dude, they're timbits

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SchmidtGenetics -12 points 2 years ago

A decade ago when Tim’s was the only place that had them sure, thats changed since.

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Luci 24 points 2 years ago

Nope. Timbits.

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flicker 20 points 2 years ago

Or all hook and loop, velcro.

Or all cotton swabs, q-tips.

Or all face tissues, kleenex.

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GiveOver 17 points 2 years ago

There's plenty of examples of trademark names being used generically. Coke, hoover, Jacuzzi

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AngryishHumanoid 14 points 2 years ago

Bullshit, I've never directly asked my drug dealer for coke, we use code words.

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GiveOver 10 points 2 years ago

Coincidentally my drug dealer's code word for me is hoover

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SchmidtGenetics -12 points 2 years ago

Which isn’t the case with donut holes, it used to be because Tim hortons was the only place, that’s stopped being changed over a decade ago.

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GiveOver 9 points 2 years ago

I'm just happy that the meme is joking about Brits yet the only people arguing in the comments are Canadians

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Peppycito 12 points 2 years ago

They're called 'timbits' to honour the founder who died in a horrific car accident. All that was left of him were bits of Tim.

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TowardsTheFuture 11 points 2 years ago

Yeah that’s stupid that’d be like calling printable camera film a Polaroid. NO ONE would EVER do that!!!

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Revan343 10 points 2 years ago

Or like calling all facial tissue "kleenex"

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rtxn 8 points 2 years ago

Let me photoshop this picture of a kleenex to look like it's stuck to a velcro strip...

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BackgrndNoize 5 points 2 years ago

Google, xerox, velcro, escalator are all trademark names as well, but people use them in a general sense. Sometimes trademark names become so popular that they get used in a general way, I don't know what's confusing you, this is a fairly common phenomenon

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bobs_monkey 43 points 2 years ago

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Venus_Ziegenfalle 17 points 2 years ago

I think you could even convince English people that "merry fizzlebombs" and "upsy stairsies" are some kind of regional slang. Might even get away with "breaddystack" or "rickedy-pop" if you play your cards right.

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vithigar 2 points 2 years ago

I'll come up the apples and have a butchers, but if you're telling porkies then there's gonna be some argy bargy.

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Venus_Ziegenfalle 3 points 2 years ago

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Illecors 1 point 2 years ago

None of these would surprise me given ij baby/toddler context!

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JAPJER 1 point 2 years ago

The inclusion of a rape joke made this go from funny to unfunny so quickly.

Granted this was from 2010, and we were all making terrible jokes back then.

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Spicy_Canada_Dry 36 points 2 years ago

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Soggy 3 points 2 years ago

Tim Horton's sucks now so they should always be "not from Timmy's"

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AngryRobot 2 points 2 years ago

Dunkin Donuts called them Munchkins, so I sometimes call any donut roles Munchkins.

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FauxLiving 6 points 2 years ago

All my adhesive bandages are band-aids

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sjkhgsi 31 points 2 years ago

That there is a Timbit

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match 8 points 2 years ago

a Tim Hortons™️ Timbit™️

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fartsparkles 19 points 2 years ago

Doughnut balls

We all know the holes are sent to Valhalla.

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tino 17 points 2 years ago

in French: pets de nonne (nun's farts)

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Infynis 7 points 2 years ago

France really is doing it to itself

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gmtom 15 points 2 years ago

Am I the only one that finds the whole "fake British words" genre of meme painfully unfunny?

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Cryophilia 17 points 2 years ago

Maybe if Brits would stop saying ridiculous things lol

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phlegmy 21 points 2 years ago

You go enjoy your hushpuppies, elephant ears, bear claws, snickerdoodles and hootenannies.

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ouRKaoS 3 points 2 years ago

All those fixins at a hootenanny sounds like my kind of shindig!

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surewhynotlem 10 points 2 years ago

You have to say snoggletarts out loud with a British accent.

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macaw_dean_settle 8 points 2 years ago

Yes

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aeronmelon 10 points 2 years ago

In Japan they’re just doughnut balls. Mister Donut calls them “pops.”

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glups 10 points 2 years ago

Munchkins. Idc if they aren't from Dunkin'.

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VitoRobles 3 points 2 years ago

Grew up near a Dunkin.

They Munchkins and donut hole purists can shove it.

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MeatPilot 9 points 2 years ago

I call them dough nuts.

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eran_morad 9 points 2 years ago

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n3m37h 1 point 2 years ago

There is no drug more powerful than a powdered doughnut

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Fedizen 7 points 2 years ago

Bread Berries

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aleq 7 points 2 years ago

I just call them type II diabetes

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macaw_dean_settle 7 points 2 years ago

*doughnut, not do nut.

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Denvil 11 points 2 years ago

Donut is just an American variation of the spelling, and considering they're talking about what Americans call this, donut is perfectly acceptable, and maybe even a more correct usage than the doughnut spelling

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lazyViking 1 point 2 years ago

If its more correct, then why have I been nutting in the dough all this time?

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WraithGear 1 point 2 years ago

Damn i have always had it in my head as dough knot. And it never looks right when i write it out.

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AA5B 1 point 2 years ago

Let him enjoy his pastries anyway he likes

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ParadoxSeahorse 5 points 2 years ago

If these were British, they’d be coated in granulated sugar and called doughnut… balls? Just tiny doughnuts? I can’t imagine someone wouldn’t want to put jam in the middle or dip them in chocolate.

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Threeme2189 3 points 2 years ago

Nah man, Brits would split them in half and spread a mixture of marmite and clotted cream on them.

Half of the population would call them "Yorkie balls" and the other would insist they're just scones.

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Vandals_handle 5 points 2 years ago

Deez nut holes

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OmegaLemmy 5 points 2 years ago

those kinda look like greek loukmas/Turkish lokmas

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fubarx 3 points 2 years ago

Malasadadas

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LovableSidekick 3 points 2 years ago

Crikey! Sugared chimney sweep nuts!

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Rooty 3 points 2 years ago

Fritule.

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errer 3 points 2 years ago

Benedict Cumberbatches

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microblogmemes

@lemmy.world

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, Twitter X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
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