An Italian Tries Donuts for the First Time

hey guys so my wife ava who comes from italy never eats breakfast and the reason for that is that in italy breakfast isn't a really big thing at most they have a cornetto it's like a pastry she's not into savory breakfast she's not into eggs bacon all that stuff so as a result she just doesn't eat anything in the morning and i thought maybe it's time for her to try america's classic sweet breakfast i'm on my way now to uh one of new england's favorite uh breakfast joints and i'm gonna pick up her very first donut it's a bit tricky i'm not sure uh which kind should would be the best introduction for her uh i think i might just leave it up to fate uh i have kind of a weird question uh if if you were to recommend one kind of donut to someone who's never had a donut before what would it be i will take one of those please that's it all right thank you i got you a uh a little treat what is that it's your very first donut did you bring me kurijica it's one of the typical uh like that things that we have in calabria you have donuts in calabria the shape is the same but we made them with potatoes yes okay no a real donut is not made out of vegetables so you need to try a real donut today before you actually try this donut i should probably explain to you the two warring schools of thought when it comes to american donut tree donut tree donuts there's dunkin donuts which is very popular here in new england i'm sure you've seen them around and then there's krispy kreme and uh i'm a little torn because i'm a new englander so i should be loyal to dunkin donuts but i also spent a lot of time in north carolina where krispy kreme is king so long story short uh you're screwed no matter what you say about this donut because if you say it's good the krispy kreme people will get mad at you and if you say it's bad the dunkin donuts people will be mad at you this is also kind of an unusual donut um uh i left things up to chance a little bit it's called the dunka fetty and it has like it's just like a glazed donut i think but it has like confetti bits in it and i'm a little nervous because it's not really like a standard donut i'm nervous no matter what okay look the the shape i'm comf i'm i'm used to the shape because as i said before we have something like that in italy maybe the smell is not the best in the world but what do you not like about the smell [Music] it smells like sugar fried just like yeah it's fried not bad fried oh it's like bad fried rice this is gonna break my heart if you don't like this because i'm all about donuts look look i was expecting like an explosion of taste in my mouth but it's pretty bland can you see the confetti in there not really it's not as like colorful as i thought it would be it's soft because it's soft but it's just the sugar sugar and the taste of fried bad fried food it's kind of like uh tastes very similar to an old fashioned donut but um much sweeter so would you eat this for breakfast absolutely no okay dang it are you willing to give dunkin donuts a second chance because it's the only dance place around here can be worse than this uh hopefully better hi there could i get a dozen assorted donuts please okay that's it thank you and i'm back with reinforcements [Music] and i'm sorry these are all for one breakfast in this case yes i'm not taking any chances this time so i'm hoping that there's at least one doughnut in here that you like come on you want me to try all them the this is a horrible you don't like the colorful one no well i know which one we're starting with here's a nice strawberry frosted donut for you bon appetito now you should know one thing about me i love strawberries but i hate everything that tastes as a strawberry oh no i totally didn't know that about you [Music] okay i'll take that as a no oh here we go here's a jelly donut which i think actually maybe out of all these is the most like possibly uh italian dessert i've seen things kind of similar kind of kind of kind of weird better than before better than before but still so far away you said that this is gross okay so you kind of maybe like the least doughnut of all the donuts how about oh let's see here this is just like a a good old chocolate glazed donut [Music] it doesn't taste like chocolate it kind of doesn't now that you mention it it tastes like chocolate doughnut which is not really tastes like chocolate i'm not a big fan of this next up a normal glaze this is not bad bad bread but okay so maybe a glazed donut is is doable did you eat it for breakfast no this is one of my favorites it's a butternut is that what it's called am i losing my mind is it called butternut am i losing my mind i'm blanking on what this is called anyway it's good [Music] i don't really understand the taste of this right it's hard to explain what's up outside it's like i don't i don't know what it is can someone someone comment who knows better than me what exactly this is you know like no it is strange it's like nothing that i had before tastes like that the best this is a problem now okay this is probably my favorite kind of donut and we're in new england it's a new england specialty this is a boston cream you're gonna want to take a big bite out of that right into the center don't nibble on this one cream actually this is good you like it it's my favorite taste as a very bad fried food at the beginning when you bite it's like okay but then [Music] i see what you mean it seems like maybe they use like old fried oil there's one more i think you should try for sure and that is just the classic old-fashioned donut it's timeless and you should definitely give this one a shot before you right off all donuts [Music] it's less sweet than all the rest yeah they're not very sweet it's a plus but still change the oil still change the oil because this can be on my [Music] this i i could like it since it seemed like maybe there were some of these that you kind of enjoyed the flavors and maybe it could be good but they maybe weren't made very well i mean oh please don't hate me new englanders but it is dunkin donuts after all maybe we should take a trip to a place that as far as i know makes donuts really really well and two hours later here we are in front of the holy donut in portland maine and from what i understand it's worth the trip i just hope that ava agrees which kind of donut we are going to get okay so their famous specialty is a maple bacon donut maple and bacon trust me even though you have literally no reason to trust me right now okay ava are you ready for the apparently religious experience of holy donut i'm skeptical about the flavor mabel and begun ava have i ever led you wrong wow look at that it's bacon it's bacon you've never had bacon and maple syrup have you no no no no no no no it's running no strange ideas in your mind oh no no the donut like the dough yeah is amazing yeah but i don't like the bagel you don't like the bacon ah i taste too much the bacon sorry oh that is so good but the dough by itself is amazing i see what you mean yeah there isn't like a big like fry oil aftertaste no it's amazing it's like you can eat one of these it's delicious and also you know what the the the dough is different from the other one so in other words if i were to maybe go back and get a box of old-fashioned donuts you might be into that yes i mean and we've got a box of holy donuts ready to take home i'm sorry here there is written main potato donuts they are made with potatoes main potato donuts because that that was the best donut i've ever had and so you're telling me that the best donut i've ever had is made in the italian way so i guess this means that maybe i should give your calabrian potato donuts a chance maybe maybe [Music] what's the matter mama hey [Music] okay [Music] so [Music] so this is the very famous main potato donuts this is kurjica i never knew that maine and italy had such similar cuisines [Music] the main potato they are good i didn't say no but can you see how fluffy they are see i was skeptical of having a savory doughnut but oh man oh man well thanks for watching guys the recipe will be in the video description down below and uh please let us know if you try it tag us in a picture on instagram at pasta grammar and we will see you next time ciao

Channel: Pasta Grammar

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Id: Vl8X1UKh2Rs

Length: 15min 16sec (916 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 17 2021