I can barely imagine Jason making a food petition on pancakes. How do they look like German chocolate, red velvet, angel, or any other pastry known as a cake when cooked in a pan?
Love the punchline. Washington Irving is cited with coining the word “Doughnut” but he was referring to small balls of dough fried and sweetened. As happens the term spread to the doughnuts we know today. The trouble with Doughtorus is Jelly doughnuts and the like which have no hole.
Hmm… I always assumed that doughnuts were named by analogy with hardware nuts (which are distorted tori,) but can’t find any sources for why those nuts are called so…
Actually the first doughnuts were like our current doughnut holes, so they resembled a nut. Later someone created larger ones with holes and called them oil cakes. (The holes made it easier to fry the larger ones evenly.) But they quickly obtained the same name as their smaller versions.
Doughnuts and donuts are connected.In a plane of dough the donuts are punched out. As connected hexagons with the middle punched out for a similar deep fried product.After the deep fat process the product is almost round.
I see Jason’s point, but “doughtorus” might make people think of Taurus the bull, and if they knew about Jason’s motives, they might say, “You said a doughnut doesn’t look like a nut. A doughtorus doesn’t look like a bull, either”.
loyea556 over 7 years ago
Silly Jason
Templo S.U.D. over 7 years ago
I can barely imagine Jason making a food petition on pancakes. How do they look like German chocolate, red velvet, angel, or any other pastry known as a cake when cooked in a pan?
Adiraiju over 7 years ago
How about doughnion rings?
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 7 years ago
The shape is a of a torus. Doughtorus would be closer to reality. Though some do have nuts in them or on them.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 7 years ago
Love the punchline. Washington Irving is cited with coining the word “Doughnut” but he was referring to small balls of dough fried and sweetened. As happens the term spread to the doughnuts we know today. The trouble with Doughtorus is Jelly doughnuts and the like which have no hole.
Chris Kenworthy over 7 years ago
Hmm… I always assumed that doughnuts were named by analogy with hardware nuts (which are distorted tori,) but can’t find any sources for why those nuts are called so…
jpsomebody over 7 years ago
How about doughnaughts because they look like a zero.
cubswin2016 over 7 years ago
I see a nut too. He should stay away from squirrels.
aimlesscruzr over 7 years ago
Jason does have a point. I think I shall start calling them that now.
hariseldon59 over 7 years ago
And what’s the deal with Grape Nuts? You open the box, no grapes, no nuts!
js over 7 years ago
nuts ala nuts and bolts.
johndifool over 7 years ago
Homer Simpson in that alternate universe:
“Marge, could you kindly pass me a donut?”
“What’s a doughnut?”
“AHH! AHHHHH!” [jumps back in his time machine]
“Oh look, it’s raining again.” [raining doughnuts]
BiggerNate91 over 7 years ago
I don’t see a nut, Peter. I see someone who’s off his.
Jaime Jean M over 7 years ago
I don’t know about you… but I just hate the new GoComics interface.
scyphi26 over 7 years ago
Actually, I have to admit, I kind of like “doughtori.”
Bruce McKinney Premium Member over 7 years ago
Come to think of it, why DO we call them doughnuts?
rgcviper the black cat over 7 years ago
“Mmm—doughtori.” [Drool … ]
Nope—sorry. I’m sticking with “donuts” / “doughnuts”. Just not the same.
Laurie Stoker Premium Member over 7 years ago
I would sign. I kind of like “doughtorus”!
eb110americana over 7 years ago
I have a similar petition regarding the pineapple. What sort of pine trees or apples did the discoverer grow up with?
patlaborvi over 7 years ago
I think the nut in donut may refer to the fact that the dough often included nutmeg for flavor.
MyTBaron Premium Member over 7 years ago
Doughtorus! Exactly! People are tori as well, the hole is the alimentary canal! Which you can put a doughnut through! Try it today! It’s very meta!
DM2860 over 7 years ago
Actually the first doughnuts were like our current doughnut holes, so they resembled a nut. Later someone created larger ones with holes and called them oil cakes. (The holes made it easier to fry the larger ones evenly.) But they quickly obtained the same name as their smaller versions.
singcpy over 7 years ago
Doughnuts and donuts are connected.In a plane of dough the donuts are punched out. As connected hexagons with the middle punched out for a similar deep fried product.After the deep fat process the product is almost round.
Take a careful look.
Handlebar Said It! over 7 years ago
I’m so………….CONFUSED!
Yesim2don2 over 7 years ago
Run out of material?
vogonpoetry over 7 years ago
So, why are these not updating any more?
Andersun85 almost 6 years ago
Its me jason, sign my petition to make paige less annoying
SonicFan91 over 5 years ago
But it ain’t the donut
alexzinuro about 4 years ago
I see Jason’s point, but “doughtorus” might make people think of Taurus the bull, and if they knew about Jason’s motives, they might say, “You said a doughnut doesn’t look like a nut. A doughtorus doesn’t look like a bull, either”.
Greymain about 3 years ago
I call them donuts because they are so close to “do nots”.