This week on Food on Fridays we’re back in the Doughnut Diaries, looking at Donuts.

Dunkin’ Donuts, to be precise.  For those of you not in North America, Dunkin’ Donuts is a major international doughnut chain that predates the Krispy Kreme brand I talked about last week, at least for me in the northeastern U.S.  Chris actually knew that Dunkin’ Donuts was founded in Massachusetts; I just knew that when I was a kid in New Jersey, there were Dunkin’ Donuts shops around.

BTW, some of my long-time readers may recall that in Germany, a “Donut” is specifically a doughnut with a hole in the middle, whereas a filled doughnut, e.g. a jelly doughnut, is called a Berliner in Germany. It was once explained to me (by a German) that a Donut is an American-style doughnut, which always seemed funny to me, as places in America — like Dunkin’ Donuts – have both styles of doughnuts.

But I digress.

Doughnuts came up again today for an unlikely reason. As I mentioned earlier this week, Chris and I have been doing a number of routine doctor’s appointments here in Florida. Today we had sort-of back-to-back medical things planned. First up was going to get routine blood work done for cholesterol testing, which requires fasting.  However, by the time we had the blood drawn, we only had about 20 minutes before my next appointment. Which meant that we needed to go somewhere to get something to eat fast.   And the quickest place in the neighborhood turned out to be a Dunkin’ Donuts.  Here are the two types we tried; FWIW, the Butternut was much better:

Butternut Dunkin’ Donut

Chocolate Glazed Dunkin’ Donut

Now, is it me, or is there something odd about going to get your cholesterol tested, and then immediately having a doughnut? But it was really the closest place for a quick snack in between doctors visits. And then, on the way back to our new “home”, we realized that we actually are mid-way between 2 Dunkin’ Donuts locations.

That’s a sign of something. I’m not sure what, but something.

At the very least, it’s a sign that the perfect theme for today’s Food on Fridays post should be a doughnut…  or donut …;-)