I came across this article on the
Web today.
Okay, someone has opened a “hip”
donut shop in—where else?—Los Angeles. The Beverly Hills shop offers gluten-free, vegan, and
other so-called healthy donuts. You can check out their offerings at their Web site:
Fonuts are baked or steamed, never fried, and
the store’s Web site freely admits that the origin of the name comes from “faux
donut.” Their flavors sound yummy, and include banana
chocolate, peanut butter and jelly, maple bacon, and red velvet, all seen here. Fonuts also has the standard
sprinkled and glazed varieties in its lineup.
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| Banana chocolate |
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| Peanut butter and jelly |
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| Maple bacon |
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| Red velvet |
Fonuts is seeking a niche in the
overpopulated donut market in Los Angeles—by one count, there are over 1,600
donut shops in the area, and Fonuts could very well find that niche they seek, given the
population of the city and the appeal of healthier food options.
However, on the purest level of
donutology, there is something seriously wrong with these Fonuts. While I can
understand and even endorse eating healthy on a consistent basis, donuts are a
special treat that are meant to be enjoyed without regard to their fat and
calorie content. To be focused on eating healthy 100 percent of the time allows
no wiggle room for many culinary pleasures, whether that be a juicy hamburger,
a drippin’ plate of BBQ, a gooey pizza, a slice of your mother’s homemade pie,
or a donut. I’m not going to say that Fonuts taste horrible because I’ve never
tried them, but I’m going to say that eating a Fonut most likely would not be
as pleasurable as eating a real donut because there is no “Hee-hee, I’m eating
a donut!” factor involved. Donuts are meant to be consumed with a smile, not
with a frown that says, “I wish I didn’t have to eat healthy day in and day
out.”
Eating healthy is good—I endorse it
95 percent of the time—but eating what you want is also essential to living life
to its fullest. So go ahead and enjoy that donut, and if anyone gives you a not-so-subtle tsk-tsk about it, just offer a smile in
return, and wipe that powdered sugar off your nose.
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