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[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 5 points 6 days ago

those kinda look like greek loukmas/Turkish lokmas

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 82 points 1 week ago (4 children)

To be honest, they should be called "Donut Plugs"

[–] Bassman27@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But then 5 of them would need to be connected in a line, right?

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

And oral beads would be more accurate

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

Donut bungs.

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[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 66 points 1 week ago (5 children)

In the UK these are called doughnuts.

The presence of a hole isnt a pre-requisite to being deemed a doughnut here.

Calling something that has zero holes a 'donut hole', will absolutely have a local refer to you as a doughnut tho...

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It's called a doughnut hole because it's implied to be the piece of dough that was punched out to make a regular circular doughnut that has a hole in it.

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 30 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Oh I understand that. I was just being facetious; my point was more to do with the definition of a hole, and how it's used here to describe something that definitely is not a hole.

If we're pedantic, then the doughnut hole is the middle bit of the original doughnut, now that this part has been punched out.

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tim bits is what we use in Canada

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

What? They’re donut holes, Timbits is only from Tim hortons, that’s a trademark name.

It would be like calling all breakfast sandwiches McMuffins dude.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Show a Canadian this picture, ask them what it is, and you will get a 99.9% answer of Tim bits.

You may be technically correct, but you're wrong. Lol.

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[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I've never once heard anyone ever refer to them as anything other than "Timbits", just as I've never heard anyone ask me to pass them a "facial tissue", and I've never heard of "hook and loop fastener" shoes. The word got genericized.

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[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sorry dude, they're timbits

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[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago

Or all hook and loop, velcro.

Or all cotton swabs, q-tips.

Or all face tissues, kleenex.

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There's plenty of examples of trademark names being used generically. Coke, hoover, Jacuzzi

[–] AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bullshit, I've never directly asked my drug dealer for coke, we use code words.

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Coincidentally my drug dealer's code word for me is hoover

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[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

They're called 'timbits' to honour the founder who died in a horrific car accident. All that was left of him were bits of Tim.

[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

Yeah that’s stupid that’d be like calling printable camera film a Polaroid. NO ONE would EVER do that!!!

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[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] JAPJER@mtgzone.com 1 points 4 days ago

The inclusion of a rape joke made this go from funny to unfunny so quickly.

Granted this was from 2010, and we were all making terrible jokes back then.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I think you could even convince English people that "merry fizzlebombs" and "upsy stairsies" are some kind of regional slang. Might even get away with "breaddystack" or "rickedy-pop" if you play your cards right.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'll come up the apples and have a butchers, but if you're telling porkies then there's gonna be some argy bargy.

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[–] Spicy_Canada_Dry@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Timbits. even if they are not form Timmy's

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[–] sjkhgsi@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Doughnut balls

We all know the holes are sent to Valhalla.

[–] tino@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

in French: pets de nonne (nun's farts)

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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Am I the only one that finds the whole "fake British words" genre of meme painfully unfunny?

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe if Brits would stop saying ridiculous things lol

[–] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You go enjoy your hushpuppies, elephant ears, bear claws, snickerdoodles and hootenannies.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 6 days ago

All those fixins at a hootenanny sounds like my kind of shindig!

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

In Japan they’re just doughnut balls. Mister Donut calls them “pops.”

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