 This is the SF Productions podcast network Join us on the donut trail from the pop culture bunker I'm indeed and I'm mark you can check out our audio podcast how I got my way three comics on itunes or on our website SF podcast network comm Well, we just completed what they call the Butler County donut trail Yes, they actually I saw this online a while ago and then they had an article in our local paper about it Right, and so this is just north of Cincinnati It's apparently well known for its donut shops or I don't know. Maybe it's not well known Maybe it's just because there are so many donut shops there and so You had to go to nine different donut shops. We did it in two days Yes, because we didn't want to have to drive to Cincinnati again, right? and So in each place you had to get a special code and if you got all the special codes and felt out your book We can send in and get a donut trail t-shirt. Oh So let's go take a look and see how that went Sweetest little thing sweet precious just as fresh as flowers in the spring of me precious She's got something they're calling for and while they're calling She's falling for your truly just a girl. You surely ought to be Believe me if you value something might be sweet and someday when I'm locking her heart up in a smart little Parkland she'll be One of the first doughnut places, this was from Martin's. Right. The actual first doughnut place we went to was Milton's and we had our doughnut at Milton's and then we realized, oh no, if we're going to eat doughnuts from all these places we can't even eat half a doughnut at each shop. So at each shop we got two doughnuts and we each ate a quarter of the doughnut and now we brought doughnuts from the rest of the places home, almost all the rest of the places. So right now the one that we have from Martin's was really interesting, I don't know how well you can see that, but it was a chocolate and yeast bread braided dough and it was really quite tasty. I thought so. So, I don't know, are you going to have another bite now? I will say that probably one of my favorite doughnuts was the first one that I got at Milton's which was a lemon-filled doughnut with a lemon frosting, it was very, very tasty, although some of these certainly compete. This was probably one of my second favorites. Is this from Oxford? Yeah, and it's like almost a crawler-like doughnut. I would call it almost a crawler, yeah. It's got a really good, tasty dough with a crisp brout side, but still a doughnut-y inside. It's not a yeast dough, but it's a rich buttery dough, it's very, very good and tasty. I really like this, it would be really good dunked in your coffee. The next one that we have is from Broth Bakery and we didn't actually eat any of these, we were too full yesterday and we couldn't finish it. So this will be our first try at the Broth Bakery doughnut and we've got one that's a cake ice doughnut and one that's a traditional glazed doughnut. So you get both types basically. Yes. Mark prefers the cake doughnut I think, well I kind of prefer the yeasty risen doughnut. How was that one, Mark? It was very decent, the icing is very rich and then you've got your yeast doughnut which is more of a traditional just a glazed. Yeah, this would be, it's much bigger than say a crispy cream doughnut or something, it's very much taller. Okay. This is from Mimi's and this is the last one we hit on day one. Yeah, again we didn't eat any of the doughnuts there, we just brought them back. Mark is not going to try this chocolate cake doughnut with chocolate frosting and coconut because he doesn't like coconut. I'm not a fan of coconut. I, on the other hand, love coconut and what do you have? And this is just a cinnamon sugar coating cake doughnut. That's pretty good. Pretty decent. Now normally I wouldn't have gotten a cake doughnut but by this time yesterday it was almost two o'clock and they were running a little low on their doughnuts. A lot of these places closed early on the weekends but they did appear to have sold out of doughnuts rather than, you know. So moving on to day two. So we went, stand the doughnut man and the guy there was really nice, I thought, or the people there. I'm not sure it was a guy. And they had this thing called a Davey Crockett which was sort of a different kind of braided sort of cinnamon roll that was really cute and also very, very tasty, did you think it was tasty? I thought so. And then you had a like more just chocolate glaze. I have to say I think this was probably one of the better chocolate glaze doughnuts that we had. Are you going to have a little piece of that? Okay. You have a little piece of the other. Okay. Mmm. The next up is Kelly's where we had our first really non-traditional flavor doughnut which is a blueberry doughnut with bacon. Yes. Which I really like. You should have a piece of that. I ate a little piece of it when we were there. All right. I'm going to leave the rest for you. Okay, all right. I'm not really into those non-traditional ones. This was a really pretty, pretty one. It's a cherry doughnut, nice cherry color inside and a pretty cherry frosting. I really liked that. And then we also had a Bavarian cream doughnut there. I think that was Bavarian cream. Might have just been vanilla cream. I think it's vanilla cream there. Vanilla cream there. I'm a big fan of the cream doughnut. Mmm. All right. So now we have from Jupiter. Jupiter, it was interesting, is one of the only places that build itself as coffee and doughnuts. Mmm. A lot of these places didn't even have anywhere to sit down, but Jupiter actually appeared to roast their own coffee there. I had a cup of coffee. It was pretty good. Mmm. We got a jelly doughnut and their doughnut of the month, which was a chocolate cake doughnut with mint frosting and chocolate chips. Which was excellent. Sucker. Mark's a sucker for that mint chocolate. Yeah, exactly. Absolutely. There's a little bite for you. Okay. You can even have the rest if you want, but not right now. All right. The raspberry one I liked, it had lots of frosting. And I think that sometimes that on these filled ones, you need a lot of frosting. It depends on how much filling there is too, but. Okay. Our last doughnut. Our last one. From the doughnut spot. Yes. It looks like we have two halves of one doughnut, but we don't. No. It is two different doughnuts. This is the Barbarian cream. And they also had this peanut butter filled doughnut. Mmm. That was interesting. Yeah, it was very interesting. Yeah. Do you want to try it again? I thought I would try a little piece of that. And you said it reminded you of a. Of those little Halloween candies that are like kind of like a chewy taffy almost that have the peanut butter inside. And they're usually wrapped in orange or black wax paper. And this is to me more like if you had peanut butter pie. Oh, I see. I don't like peanut butter pie. Well, this is very much like peanut butter pie. Yeah. No, I'm not a fan of the peanut butter pie. It seemed like most of them were doing a pretty good local business today. Oh, yeah. There wasn't a single one where we walked in and there weren't other people there. Yeah. And a couple of them, there were people that were buying actually like two or three dozen doughnuts. So that was very interesting. I mean, I guess I've not had an occasion to need that many doughnuts. Right. And I don't think I will have an occasion to need that many doughnuts for that. For what? After this, I'm not sure I want to see another doughnut. And yet I'm surrounded by doughnuts. And here we are. So check out it. It wasn't just this past weekend. Yeah. It was in fact. Yeah. So if you're in, what is it? Southwestern Ohio. In north of Cincinnati. Right. It's near an IKEA and the best grocery store in the city, which is Jungle Jim's. Yes. Go on to any of these donut shops, pick up a donut passport. They have, they have them there. You just write down the keyword, then you can send it in and get a free T-shirt for yourself. There you go. You can see us sporting our doughnut trail T-shirts. But in the meantime, you can check out our audio podcast, how I got my wife's treat comics on iTunes or on our website sfpodcastnetwork.com. From the Pop Culture Bunker, I'm Mindy. And I'm Mark. Thanks for watching.