Those Doughnuts

What is it with doughnuts? I have no idea why people all over the globe are obsessed with doughnuts, I don’t mean just the men in blue. I could remember practically living on Dunkin’ Doughnuts’ munchkins for a day as a kid – I don’t mean a piece or two here, more like the whole mini-bunch.

Growing up, I was crazy about doughnuts: soon as I outgrew the munchkins and started pretending that I’m not absolutely addicted to sweets, I moved on to Mister Donuts doughnut cakes;

when GoNuts Donuts opened at the Fort, getting in line for a solid half an hour (or more) to secure two or three boxes of freshly baked doughnuts holes became part of my father’s aide’s daily duties;

and Krispy Kreme, puh-leeze, I was already having an affair with the glazed sourcream and NY cheesecake way before they even opened here in Manila. Believe it or not, I was so crazy for Krispy Kreme that those I enjoyed pre-Krispy-Kreme-Philippines were flown in from the states.

So what is it about doughnuts that people of all ages and class just can’t resist? I don’t know! Maybe it’s because it’s so easy to eat, especially the bite-size munchkins; maybe it’s because it is so convenient to eat (pick it up, with or without tissue depending on your neatness standards, and go) that anyone with half a brain and the worst body coordination can eat this while doing something else; maybe because it’s colorful (hey, studies proved this!); maybe because everyone we know has stuffed their faces with this particular food at one point of their life or another, that eating it so comfortingly familiar; maybe because we all secretly want to be cops (okay, so maybe that’s reaching). Why do we love doughnuts? I don’t know! I can only tell you why I love eating doughnuts: because it’s sweet and it’s carb and every heavenly bite is guaranteed to go straight to your thighs and ass – and if you can indulge in that and still look halfway great, then by god you have it made. And thanks to the genius who put up drive through at the Krispy Kreme branch @ Greenhills.