Nation's best donuts? Anybody tried some of these places?

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Nation's best donuts? Anybody tried some of these places?

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Good article on yahoo about donuts.

http://food.yahoo.com/blog/edlevineeats ... -doughnuts


I've never tried the one in Arkansas. But now I have a hit list of places to eat when i travel.
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Re: Nation's best donuts? Anybody tried some of these place

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Interesting. :D

anonymous private message wrote:deserving to be on the list.

A little off the beaten path in El Dorado, but worth the visit.

Biggest difference is they use flour made from potatoes rather than wheat. That's why the use the name "spud"nuts.
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cktuba wrote: Many moons ago, in Cedar Falls, we used to buy Leinenkuegel's (preferably the Big Butt Doppelbock) and then take a quick trip down to Donut Land and back home. Mmmmmmmmmmm... tasty.


Yeah, I think i'd only like it with dark beer. Big Butt and Creamy Dark.

Kinda like Sam Adams Cream stout, irish cream, and coffee--- all mixed 1/3,1/3,1/3. Makes a great breakfast treat!
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Re: Nation's best donuts? Anybody tried some of these place

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djwesp wrote:deserving to be on the list.

A little off the beaten path in El Dorado, but worth the visit.

Biggest difference is they use flour made from potatoes rather than wheat. That's why the use the name "spud"nuts.
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My home town. I do not go back without a visit to the Spudnut Shop. A dozen in one sitting is not out of the question. I went to High School with the current owner, dead ringer for Alfred E. Newman and a great guy. Absolutely the best doughnuts in the universe, bar none. My children and nieces and nephews still make pilgrimages. It used to be a franchise out of Minnesota, I think, 50 years ago and the franchisor went broke. A few owners found a way to get the ingredients and kept it going. There may be a dozen or so left in the whole country. I see there is also one listed in Washington State.
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I kind of miss the old B.O.S.A. donut shops that you saw in and around Milwaukee about 25 years ago. It seems that, at the time, I was one of the last to find out what the initials stood for.
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Vietnam seems to be the only country in Asia that doesn't have doughnuts. Someone once asked me to find the best doughnuts in Saigon. Actually, if I find any doughnuts at all here they will be the best doughnuts because they would be the only doughnuts.

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