How do you eat a ...

[Tender Branson]

Well ?

As for me: Always start looking for the hole and then eat it.

[opebo]

Is a faschingskrapfen something clarence would like?  Because that's the image I'm getting with this tale of 'finding the hole'...

[Tender Branson]

These are Faschingskrapfen:



And the hole is where the jelly is squirted into.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

You Austrians and your silly wrong names for everything…

[dead0man]

So it's just a jelly donut then?

Well that's easy, go for the hole.  If you don't bite the hole, the sh**t will go out of it when you bite down.

[opebo]

So it's just a jelly donut then?

Well that's easy, go for the hole.  If you don't bite the hole, the sh**t will go out of it when you bite down.

Easy for you or I to say, but what about clarence? He can't find the hole.

[CLARENCE 2015!]

So it's just a jelly donut then?

Well that's easy, go for the hole.  If you don't bite the hole, the sh**t will go out of it when you bite down.

Easy for you or I to say, but what about clarence? He can't find the hole.

I've been finding holes just fine since well before you were born...

[opebo]

So it's just a jelly donut then?

Well that's easy, go for the hole.  If you don't bite the hole, the sh**t will go out of it when you bite down.

Easy for you or I to say, but what about clarence? He can't find the hole.

I've been finding holes just fine since well before you were born...

I've no doubt you're up to the challenge, but given some of the 'jelly donuts' you've posted in pictorial form, you might need a dousing rod and a bulldozer to accomplish the task.

[Mr. Morden]

Can't help but think of this:

http://www.snopes.com/language/misxlate/berliner.asp

[Oldiesfreak1854]

It's obviously a donut.  It reminds me of that old song, "Watch the donut not the hole…"

[minionofmidas]

Those are Kreppel.

[ZuWo]

Ah, you're talking about "Berliner" ... Option 2 for me.

[minionofmidas]

Here's the full list of German names for the stuff...

Berliner: NRW, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg (but not Lower Pomerania), most of Rhineland-Pfalz, much of Baden, Switzerland
Kreppel: Hesse, Lower Franconia, parts of Rhineland-Pfalz, half of Thuringia
Pfannkuchen (which everywhere else means a pancake): Former GDR except Mecklenburg and half of Thuringia, West Berlin
Krapfen: Württemberg, Bavaria except Lower Franconia, Austria
Fastnachtskuchen: parts of Baden

Kreppel is a diminutive of Krapfen, and Berliner and Pfannkuchen are both shortened from an older designation as Berliner Pfannkuchen. What's behind this is of course something ancient and South German becoming popular (and more regularized) in Berlin during the peak of its industrial expansion and central importance, then getting introduced to the rest of the country from there.

[CLARENCE 2015!]

So it's just a jelly donut then?

Well that's easy, go for the hole.  If you don't bite the hole, the sh**t will go out of it when you bite down.

Easy for you or I to say, but what about clarence? He can't find the hole.

I've been finding holes just fine since well before you were born...

I've no doubt you're up to the challenge, but given some of the 'jelly donuts' you've posted in pictorial form, you might need a dousing rod and a bulldozer to accomplish the task.

A fair point...

[tmthforu94]

I will stick my tongue into both holes and lick it good, then eat what's left like any other doughnut.

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

I picked a bad time to eat chocolate pudding.

[Vosem]

Oh, I just bite into it. Food is one of the worst things to overthink.

[Simfan34]

I will stick my tongue into both holes and lick it good, then eat what's left like any other doughnut.

Inappropriate imagery.

[memphis]

Why so many words for donuts? And are they common words? Do you guys eat that many of them? English has a few for particular types: fritter, eclair, cruller, bearclaw, etc but they are rather obscure terms and it would not be unusual at all for a native speaker who doesn't eat many not to know these terms.

[Ban my account ffs!]

We call them Bismarcks, though they tend to refer more to the Bavarian Cream filled kind while the kind filled with fruit are "jelly doughnuts".

Here, the most popular tend to be cake doughnuts (sour cream cake doughnuts or blueberry glazed cake doughnuts) or doughnut holes with cinnamon and sugar or just powdered sugar.

Fritters, crullers, and bearclaws all get rolled into "doughnut" here while an eclair is a fancy creme puff.

[memphis]

The cream filled are so much better than the fruity ones! May as well just eat a jar of strawberry jam Never heard the term "Bismarck." Do the Germans use that term as well? I know the Poles have held on dearly to their pączki. Jews trying to prove their mettle say sufganiyot at Chanuka.

[minionofmidas]

The cream filled are so much better than the fruity ones! May as well just eat a jar of strawberry jam Never heard the term "Bismarck." Do the Germans use that term as well?

I listed all the words we use (for the standard thing). Did you see that term there? A Bismarck is a herring. Not a red one, either.

You do get "Donuts" in Germany nowadays, but that's probably Homer Simpson's fault. They are donut-shaped. You may also get Brezel- or Schnecke-shaped pastries of Krapfen/donut dough - I would consider Krapfen to be the generic German term, Berliner or Kreppel clearly refer to the most common round jelly-filled type.