I love a donut.
Hot jam donuts, iced donuts (chocolate or strawberry for preference), cinnamon donuts from the supermarket or fancy donuts from an artisan bakery, I love them all.
A friend and I still wistfully reminisce about the enormous chocolate donuts from the cafeteria under the science library at university. On a visit many years later to an Open Day with one of my children, I was devastated to discover not only no donuts but no cafeteria. I’m not sure I ever got over the loss.
I was thrilled to discover that an abandoned Hungry Jack’s site near my home had been turned into a Daniel’s Donuts. Heaven around the corner…
Recently, a new phrase has entered the local lexicon – Double Donut Day.
It’s not when you buy a six-pack from Daniel’s and because there’s only five people in your family, you get to eat two but it’s almost as exciting.
Double Donut Day here means zero=0=🍩 COVID-19 deaths and zero=0=🍩 COVID-19 new cases. We love our double donut days.
Today we recorded our 11th Double Donut Day in a row.
Now, that’s worth a donut! Or two.
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I do like that the health advisors prefer to call them bagel days.
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Reading Jude’s comment, maybe I should have gone with the less-controversially-spelled bagel. I do love a bagel.
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Doesn’t have the same alliteration though!
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Double Donut days are definitely a good thing in Melbourne right now. After months of staying in, I think we all deserve it.
On the subject of food and donuts, I like donuts too. I’m not too keen on jam donuts but don’t mind any other donuts. Cinnamon is probably my favorite, alongside chocolate glazed donuts. Years ago I would have a donut for breakfast. Before work I’d go to a donut shop, grab a nice-looking donut and bring it to the office and everyone would ogle over it. Those were the days 😀
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A donut for breakfast? Living on the wild side, Mabel! 😄
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Yup! A donut a day for breakfast for a year. It was a wild time of my life. These days I prefer a more protein-fueled breakfast 😄
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That’s a great way to mark two significant zeroes. I hope you have many more double donut days.
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It’s been a long hard road and we all deserve a donut. Hope you can get to your own donut days, Dan.
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The most important question is whether you got to eat double donuts on double donut day.
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Definitely right for Double Donut Day 1 but maybe not by Day 11. We don’t need an extra health crisis.
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True, true.
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Oh, no I cannot believe you call them donuts! You Aussies are becoming more Americanised every day. But I like the fact that you have 0 deaths and 0 infections. [ hangs head in despair… 😷]
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Ooh, sorry Jude! To be honest, I’ve used that spelling so long now I don’t think I even thought of it.* Blame Donut King, Mr Donut, Uncle Donut, Daniel’s Donuts and the donuts in the supermarket for lulling me into an American spelling. Besides, who’s got time for spelling doughnut when there are donuts to be eaten! 😜
Perhaps you would prefer the ‘Double Bagel Day’ version.
*I started to write that sentence with a different structure but I got too scared about whether it’s ‘spelt’ or ‘spelled’. 😮
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Spelt is a type of flour isn’t it? 🙄
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It is but I’ve traditionally also used it for the past tense of spell. Interestingly, according to the grammar sites I’ve consulted ‘spelled’ is the American version so I guess we’re all corrupted in some way.
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😂
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It’s a beautiful thing xxx
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It is indeed. ❤
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Custard for me, please! 🙂 🙂 But I’ll settle for Double Zero.
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Ah, but which flavour? Vanilla? Chocolate? Banana? Salted caramel? How about a 6 pack of them from Daniel’s? 😄
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Just vanilla, please. And just one. I’d hate to be greedy 🙂 🙂
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I have t heard the term “double doughnut” day (I can’t bring myself to use the US spelling), but I’m very glad you’re experiencing them.
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We are lucky to live (as you do) where those in power have taken this seriously and we have reaped the benefits. (Even if there are some tough economic times ahead.)
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We are. And we’re not alone in experiencing tough economic times; some of my UK friends are already trying to cope with redundancy AND COVID in their communities ☹️
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I love this and will add it to my lexicon. Of course it’ll be a long time before I’ll get to use it, but still… good to be prepared. Very clever.
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I thought it was fun for the health officials to dub your covid free days double donuts! It’s time we had some light hearted fun, after what you’ve all been through in Victoria. Let’s hope the double donut days become so frequent they don’t need comment any more.
As for real donuts, I recently discovered Krispy Kreme! Oh my…
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It was a fun way to celebrate a hard fought achievement.
I’ve never really taken to Krispy Kreme but there’s lots of options out there!
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We don’t have a store here but there are plenty of other choices if I wanted. Donuts aren’t something I’d buy every day, but fantastic when I want a treat.
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Oh how I wish we had any double donut days. Don’t know when that will happen with all of the Covidiots in this country, but perhaps in this new year, we’ll see a change. In the mesntime, you have me wanting a nut-covered pershing, fluffy vanilla frosting, like the one I used to buy at a local gas station. Yum!
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After more than 60 days of doughnuts, cases have been popping up again. 😦 This is such a tricky virus, we just can’t let down our guard at all.
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