Today on Food on Fridays we’re back to the Doughut Diaries for the 3rd week in a row (!), this time visiting a Love Bug. No, not the real insect. You see, there is a local bakery chain here in Melbourne called Love Bug’s Donuts and Bakery.

Now I hadn’t thought of the old movie The Love Bug in years, but the name of this bakery brought it to mind. Then I heard the other day that the star of those movies, Dean Jones, just passed away, and mentions of that movie were all over.  So, our finding this local bakery called Love Bug seemed like a sign that we had to try it, right?

I know what you’re thinking — and you’re right, there doesn’t ever really need to be a reason for us to agree to try a doughnut. So the other day we sampled a couple of the Love Bug regular doughnuts — er, donuts, as they call them there. The following seasonal special pumpkin cake one was pretty good:

Pumpkin Spice Love Bug Donut

These two glazed raised ones weren’t bad, although not as good as the cake donut. However, I found them rather more photogenic than the pumpkin one:

Chocolate & Maple Glazed Love Bug Donuts

Note that the maple one on the right is not one of the Love Bug’s  “signature maple bar with bacon” items. Yes, that’s would be a doughnut with bacon.  Hmm. I guess that’s a very trendy thing in the U.S. right now, as there are several donuts with bacon on Zagat’s list of 14 “must try” donuts.  But I’m not convinced.  As I much as I like sampling doughnuts, it still might take something as an extra incentive to get me to agree to try a bacon doughnut…

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P.S. Dean Jones, in addition to starring in a bunch of Disney movies in the 1960s and 1970s, was also a Broadway star.  Here’s a clip of him performing in a scene from the  1970 Sondheim musical Side by Side; the clip is from a concert reunion of the original cast done in 1993.  Enjoy.