I Miss My Chocolate Donuts
By Ann LeFlore
@poehere (15123)
French Polynesia
July 29, 2017 3:42pm CST
Here in Tahiti we have a lot of great French Pastries, but we don’t have any good donuts. The donuts here suck. They are too greasy and have a funny taste. Yes, I can make them at home. However, they don’t seem to taste the same as the ones they have in the US.
When I first moved to the US I was hooked on chocolate donuts. Every time my uncle took us to school, we passed by this donut shop. When I first arrived I had never tasted a donut before. I had no idea what to expect. One morning he pulled into the donut shop and my cousin and I went in. She immediately knew what she wanted. I had no idea what to try. I took 1 chocolate donut and one sugar donut.
After this I was hooked. I use to beg my uncle to stop there every morning we passed the shop. He was strict with what we ate and donuts weren’t on the menu. However, now and then he would let us have 2 donuts on the way to school.
Later, I moved to my grandmother’s in California to finish high school. There was a donut shop down the street from where she lived. The first few weeks of living with my grandmother, I would take my lunch money and go to the donut shop in the morning. I would buy 6 chocolate donuts on my way to school. This was my lunch.
I finally got tired of eating donuts everyday for lunch. However, I still loved to go to the shop and get one or two chocolate donuts now and then. Now living here on the islands I really miss my chocolate donuts.
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
29 Jul 17
Chocolate donuts are delicious but only to be eaten in moderation.
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@andriaperry (117873)
• Anniston, Alabama
29 Jul 17
Donuts were a treat when I was growing up as well, maybe twice a month we got to stop and get ONE donut.
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@celticeagle (170433)
• Boise, Idaho
30 Jul 17
I wish had places here to get pastries. I remember going to Walla walla, Washington and they had this great coffee house that had stuff croissants. We ate there every time we went. Here they have a couple places but that is all and not real nice assortment of pastries. Just cookies, donuts and a pastry with almond paste in it. We have Dunkin' Donuts which has an entire assortment of donuts. Oh, and we have a Crispy Creme or whatever it's called clear across town. I would love to find a place that makes cake donuts and has a lot of pastries to choose from.
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@celticeagle (170433)
• Boise, Idaho
31 Jul 17
@poehere .....I don't them overly sweet but love the cream.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
31 Jul 17
@celticeagle Not a fan of cream but love the lemon filled ones with that powder sugar on top. Yumm.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
29 Jul 17
Yes, I could eat 6 of them for lunch. I never gained a pound doing this one. I went into the 11th grade weighing 83 pounds and when I left high school in the 12th grade I weighed 86 pounds. I still to this day can't get over 100 pounds no matter how much I eat. I am very active and seem to just burn up the food I eat.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
29 Jul 17
@marlina We didn't have donuts in France when I was growing up there. The first time I ate one was in Hawaii when I was 13. After this I was hooked. I fell in love with chocolate donuts.
I am very active and do a lot of sports and activities. I have a large organic garden I work in. This burns up a lot of calories working outside during the day. You seem to sweat a lot and drink 5 liters of water when you are working. I also eat healthy and don't eat junk food at all. However, I was talking with my granddaughter today and she was eating a donut. This is what me think of chocolate donuts and how much I miss them.
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@Marilynda1225 (83545)
• United States
29 Jul 17
It's funny the things you miss when you move away. I miss good old New York bagels now that I live in Pennsylvania. Luckily we have some decent donuts and my favorite is jelly
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@LeaPea2417 (37466)
• Toccoa, Georgia
30 Jul 17
I love doughnuts too. One great doughnut shop in the States is Dunkin Donuts , but we don't have one in our town. The nearest is a 45 minute drive. But, we do have a grocery store here in town that has its own cafe/bakery where they have doughnuts and I will treat myself to some on occasion.
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@LeaPea2417 (37466)
• Toccoa, Georgia
31 Jul 17
@poehere Yes, small independent stores, like that do have better products than the bigger chain stores.
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@cahaya1983 (11116)
• Malaysia
31 Jul 17
Wow I don't think I can eat donuts for lunch. I like to have them for tea time though, but can't eat more than one 
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@CookieMonster46 (13454)
• United States
31 Jul 17
I want a donut now...chocolate...lol
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@CookieMonster46 (13454)
• United States
31 Jul 17
@poehere oh yes, here not a problem, probable the reason it contributes to diabetes here.
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
1 Aug 17
@CookieMonster46 There is the French pastries here that do that. I don't like them so I don't have a problem.
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@RichardMeister (5328)
• Otis Orchards, Washington
30 Jul 17
I used to like to eat donuts quite often but now I rarely do. I like maple bars the best. I would say chocolate comes in second for me.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
31 Jul 17
@RichardMeister Yuck. Not a fan of too sweet a donut. Just a bit of sugar and a good chocolate does the trick for me.
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@RichardMeister (5328)
• Otis Orchards, Washington
31 Jul 17
@poehere I agree. About 20 years ago I decided eating all that sugar wasn't good for me. It was a bit hard to quit when there was a donut shop just down the street (which is no longer there). We do have a Krispy Kreme about 4 miles from where I live but I don't care for them–they are too sweet for me. I was told they put more sugar in the dough than most.
@Deepizzaguy (105817)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
30 Jul 17
I know what you mean. The taste of soda pop in America is watered down compared to the soft drinks in Panama.
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@Neiltarquin (1062)
• Rass, Saudi Arabia
30 Jul 17
Me to, I miss chocolate donuts. No donuts here in saudi, well there is Dunkin Donuts but the price... It's like your buying donut springkled with gold dust made by Gordon Ramsey. It's there, you can see and smell it but you can't buy it because you know better to spend $4 on a piece of chocolate donut. See how frustrated I am...
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
30 Jul 17
when my classmate came home from the middle east, she said her kids like dunkin donuts there
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
30 Jul 17
@Neiltarquin i told her there are many donut brands here now, and the quality might not be the same.
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@Neiltarquin (1062)
• Rass, Saudi Arabia
30 Jul 17
@hereandthere
Here, there are lots of chocolates and lots of cakes and pastries. Donut I think is not popular here.
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@allknowing (139625)
• India
30 Jul 17
That donut up in the picture looks inviting. I like anything that has chocolate in it. We do not get donuts here.
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@JudyEv (344704)
• Rockingham, Australia
1 Aug 17
I'm not fussed about doughnuts but I can understand that many people love them. I am pretty hooked on baguettes now that we've arrived in France, The Australians can't make them like the French do, A French chef who now lives in Australia says it's because the flour is different. He imports his flour from France.
