Mmmm...donuts....

I had a craving, an Alton-Brown-Feasting-On-Asphalt inspired craving for donuts. Last night I watched Alton Brown and his crew eat 3+ dozen donuts in some small area of Missouri (which apparently is home to 8 Mom & Pop type donut shops alone) and I was hooked. I wanted a donut right then and there. I thought about driving to of all places the Krispy Kreme on Aurora for a donut. I'm not a super fan of donuts in general let alone Krispy Kremes, but I just had this hankering for some fried empty sugary calories.

I woke up this morning and the first thing that popped in my head was "donuts, must get them now before the rest of the neighborhood wakes up". We did finally make our way to Top Pot donuts on 35th and 70th. There was a line out the door and a rather annoying couple standing in front of us -- of which the man was constantly swaying and choosing to speak to his girlfriend when the distance between them was the greatest -- so I heard this over and over "blah blah -- WHAT?" for approximately 5 minutes. This however did not sway me from donuts -- we were getting them dammit and I didn't care how long it took. There were no crullers (visibly that is) or custard filled ones available today, but we did load up on long johns (aka bar donuts) both chocolate and maple (I guess you can't get vanilla long johns in Seattle -- I've checked, no where it seems...), apple fritters, plain glazed and two random cake donuts. Two large coffees and $18 dollars later, we had them. Cue angelic music here... after a quick trip to the grocery store to buy some fixins for dinner we arrived home to which I had a donut. 2 halves to be exact because well...I had to eat two flavors! The chocolate long john was suitable although I had this wish that it be filled with pudding or something nonetheless -- still delicious. Then I had some lemon-filled powdered sugar fantasy. It kind of tasted like a lemon filled donut I would get from Safeway or something. Joe is right though, the blueberry cake-donut with the sugar and cinnamon -- outstanding.

I've done some further reading on Seattle area donuts. Seattle is apparently the birthplace (no big surprise honestly) to the "best vegan" donuts around. I kid you not -- this place called the Mighty-O which is on 21st and 55th is not far from us either, but they only have cake like donuts. It makes sense with all of the rules of sticking to a vegan diet and vegan requirements, but c'mon, no raised donuts?? My friend Jay at work is a self-proclaimed lover of all food that is bad for you and he said that he was surprised how good these vegan donuts were. Thanks Jay, but I'll take your word for the time being. Plus I've been reading that the Mighty-O has some sad surcharge for those who don't pay with cash--give it up, not worth my time then. I came across an old Seattle Weekly column about donuts where the URL ended with screw-krisy-kreme.php .... NICE. Admittedly, my brother Jody and I waited in the dead of winter for 2+ hours at the Issaquah drive-thru for Krispy Kreme donuts and yes at the time they were the shit -- they were everything, we were the envy of all those at work when we brought in the dozens of sugar-bombs. However, if you don't eat them when they're hot, they really aren't all that...although their milk machine with their icy cold milk, sooo good...

Now besides wanting to drive up to Canada to get some Timbits, there is this little donut shop that I drive by all the freaking time that I want to try out -- Family Donut in Northgate (directly west of I5 next to the 7-11). I've read good things and I want a good french cruller, yum! Actually what I want right now is a nap as my sugar-bomb donut high is fading. Some day, Family Donut and I will meet, oh yes we will...who knows maybe they have vanilla long johns too?