Bringing Home the Donuts

An ode to the greatest dessert of all-time

I’m hard at work researching and compiling the next piece in my series on Wikipedia manipulation — read the first post here. In the meantime, I wanted to get a post up before March came to a close.

Of all the go-to icebreaker questions, I find “What’s your favorite food?” to be the hardest to answer. How does one compare a carne asada burrito packed as thick as your bicep to a platter of french toast crisped to perfection? Does chicken soup count as your favorite food if you only consider the specific recipe made by your grandmother to be the best?

Other icebreakers invite such difficult comparisons across styles. An animated children’s classic like Toy Story has little in common with The Social Network, but at least they are both movies. The constraints of the medium allow for some level of comparison that is not present with food. But if I was forced by a maliciously compliant genie to pick a favorite food, I would have to say donuts.¹

The donut is versatile in a way other desserts, sav…