'Shock' Donuts On The Rise, But Are They Good?

Elk’s Club meetings mean donuts to George Geary. “My dad’s Elk’s meetings were Friday nights and he’d always come home with Winchell’s donuts,” says Geary, an accomplished pastry chef, author and donut expert. “It’s my favorite childhood memory.”

Sweet dough fried in hot oil is irresistible–and not just to Homer Simpson. Argentines love their facturas, Austrians their krapfen, Iceland their kleinuhringar, Japanese their sata andagi and Israelis their sufganiyot.

Canada, in fact, is the world’s largest per capita donut consumer. It’s hard to find anyone who dislikes them, even New York City's trans-fat-fighting Mayor Bloomberg. One day after proposing the New York City soda ban the Mayor proclaimed June 1, 2012, “NYC Donut Day.”

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