A Guide to Doughnuts

[orichalcum]

The Chicago Tribune published today a guide to 13 different ethnic kinds of doughnuts and where to find good ones in Chicago. It's very interesting from a foodie perspective, but I do feel the need to point out two things:

Take a look at #12, the Long John. Um? I'm just saying, it looks like something made by Nanny Ogg.

I'm not one to mock other people's folklore, but the origin story for #13, the You Tiao chinese doughnut (fritter), is supposedly as follows:
"During the Song dynasty a heroic general was framed for murder by a hated prime minister and his wife. The Chinese people were so angry they twisted strands of dough together and fried them--the strands represented the villains. Says Z.J. Tong, president of the Chicago Chinese Cultural Institute: "The people, they didn't dare speak up, so this was their revenge in a way."

Because when I want justice, I...eat fried foods! That'll show them! Ha, I say!

Mac's sentence of the day: "How I get cupcakes?"
(There are no cupcakes currently in the house, nor are there plans for cupcakes.)

Comments

[stone-and-star.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of hamentaschen. (Ha ha! We beat you! Now we make fun of you with food!) But as a result it doesn't seem so strange.

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

Yes, but there's a difference between ha ha we beat you and "we have no chance of achieving actual justice here, so we will seethe with our doughnuts quietly."