Sunday, July 22, 2012

Dough or Doughnut, there is no try

This is about doughnuts. Greek doughnuts vs. American doughnuts in a competition about quality, quantity and fluffiness. There's a little bakery on my way to my class at Deree, not the super awesome bakery with a huge selection like the one farther down our street where I had that great tart. No, this is just a little bakery in a circular building that sells different pitas (pies)and in the morning a few doughnuts. Now I've stopped there on my way to my morning class a few times and I get a doughnut for a euro. Not a little doughnut that fits in the palm of your hand like back home, granted they do have them but they seem smaller than the ones back home. This doughnut is relatively the size of my face, covered in powder sugar, and the last quarter of it is stuffed with chocolate. And this thing is all dough with very few air bubbles to fluff it out, but it's super fluffy at the same time. I'm used to doughnuts like the ones back home you can get at Dunkin, that come in a variety of flavors, they're small, covered or filled with cream, completely full or air and no dough, and they can be stale. The worse of this is that you have to eat almost 6 doughnuts just to feel full and that you ate something. So which of these has more calories? The Greek doughnut that's all bread with a little bit of sugar and chocolate, or the American doughnut that's all air, a little bit of dough and stuffed full of frosting either on or on top. Neither of them are probably really the healthiest things to eat in the morning or anytime. But when I'm eating a Greek doughnut, I'm walking up hill to campus, and either climbing more uphill or lots of stairs to get to class. When I'm getting American doughnuts I'm either at home doing nothing was driving to school and barely walking anywhere on a tiny high school campus. When I eat one of these Greek doughnuts for breakfast, I feel full, I also down it with a bunch of milk but I feel fine until lunch. When I eat American doughnuts for breakfast, it messes with my blood sugar levels and I'm starving an hour or two before lunch rolls around. And who cares about their food more? The Greek bakery owner, who every morning is making these doughnuts to serve to customers he knows by name and face that come in every morning to buy something, or the chain store who has shops in every part of the country, who's majority of stores have their doughnuts trucked in from a manufacturer for people they don't know, they're just trying to feed and make money off as many as they can. I haven't really missed the doughnuts back home but I'll definitely be sad to see these Greek ones go. I might have to get one this morning, seeing as I won't have time tomorrow and it's basically my last day here.