Supermarket doughnuts

[CoolHands]

why are they so fking disgusting? Don't even normally have them but my missus bought some so I tried one.

Instead of the light, voluminous jam-filled doughnut covered with sugar of yore, we get a dense, doughy oddly moist puke-inducing thing with a smattering of damp white stuff.

WHAT THE fkING fk? Have they no shame. Truly awful.

[spikeyhead]

Lidl's are ok, the rest are indeible

[Butter Face]

Morrisons. Their raspberry ones are ace.

[All that jazz]

CoolHands said:

why are they so fking disgusting? Don't even normally have them but my missus bought some so I tried one.

Instead of the light, voluminous jam-filled doughnut covered with sugar of yore, we get a dense, doughy oddly moist puke-inducing thing with a smattering of damp white stuff.

WHAT THE fkING fk? Have they no shame. Truly awful.

MORRISONS. Delicious and fresh. Apple/strawberry/raspberry/custard, take your pick.

/thread.

[CoolHands]

well we can't name & shame, but let's just say every little doesn't help.

[Butter Face]

CoolHands said:

well we can't name & shame, but let's just say every little doesn't help.

Oh yes, they are cheap crap.

Morrisons are a revelation after those turds!!

[vladcjelli]

Mother in law insists on "treating" us to Co-op jam doughnuts.

I respond by not eating them, while pining for Morrisons ones instead.

[spikeyhead]

Supermarkets are good for tinned stuff and washing powder. For the rest, use a real shop.

[Mastodon2]

I think they bake them super-dense so they hold their moisture throughout the day, but they are invariably dry as fk and taste like st by the time you get them.

[AlexC1981]

Sainsburys doughnuts are made from scratch in store, or at least they were when I worked there in the bakery. The bakers would make them on the Saturday and in the early hours of Sunday morning I used to fry them, sugar them and put the jam in.

Sometimes I miss those simpler (albeit sticky) times

[Oakey]

I had some raspberry ones from Morrisons recently that tasted like hot cross buns

[airsafari87]

The day you drive through a Krispy Kreme in the U.S., with its light on. Is the day you completely give up eating any doughnuts back home.

[CoolHands]

Oakey said:

I had some raspberry ones from Morrisons recently that tasted like hot cross buns

haha

I'm trying to work out if that's good or bad

[Type R Tom]

airsafari87 said:

The day you drive through a Krispy Kreme in the U.S., with its light on. Is the day you completely give up eating any doughnuts back home.

Had a fresh one straight out the fryer from the branch at Bluewater, like eating hot sweet butter!

[krallicious]

A KK opened up just outside Kingston when I used to live there in 2007. Bloody awful. They tasted like sweet, half molten plastic. If you want good doughnuts then just make them at home.

[C0ffin D0dger]

I also conclude, after extensive research, that Morrison's doughnuts are the king of the supermarket doughnut.

Luckily it's also the nearest supermarket to work so whenever it's anyone's birthday we often have a pile of these ready for morning coffee

Don't think you can really compare KK with the bog standard deep fried, sugar coated, jam filled jobs though.

[madzo14]

M&S do good ones. Many a time I've got them straight from the oven still hot.

[CAPP0]

CoolHands said:

well we can't name & shame, but let's just say every little doesn't help.

Sadly this is correct. There was a time, back when <insert name of very old person> was a nipper, when their doughnuts were very good, in fact dangerously so in that a bag of 5 could easily be consumed within one (long) break, but now they're just stodge wearing a doughnut badge.

On the other hand, you have now made me want doughnuts. I'm in Docklands. Where to go?

[FW18]

AlexC1981 said:

Sainsburys doughnuts are made from scratch in store, or at least they were when I worked there in the bakery. The bakers would make them on the Saturday and in the early hours of Sunday morning I used to fry them, sugar them and put the jam in.

Sometimes I miss those simpler (albeit sticky) times

Still is the same now

[Ste1987]

I used to work for Asda, and their donuts are pre-baked and frozen in the factory. Then they get delivered and are just defrosted before getting bagged up. Still ate them on a regular basis whilst I worked there, especially when you could get 5 for 50p!