wenDONUTopia: San Francisco

Welcome. I started blogging about donuts to coincide with the 2016 presidential inauguration. Initially, I explained my obsession with donuts like this: “they’re delicious, it's silly, and in a world so riddled with serious issues, donuts provide comic, tasty relief.” Over the last few years I have come to realize that a love of donuts is universal and can translate and enable dialogue across cultural, political, economic class, and gender lines. I haven’t met a cab or LYFT driver who was not willing to engage in a discussion about donuts—which gradually evolved into other topics. So, with that, I’d like your help. Please share your donut experiences with me (at wendonutopia@gmail.com) and while you’re munching on donuts, use that experience as an opportunity to listen to others' points of view. It works.

Sunday, September 4, 2016

San Francisco - September, 2016

Bob's Donuts

Web Site: Bobsdonutssf.com
Address:

1621 Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94109

Rating:

Bob’s is a highly-acclaimed, no frills, down and dirty, neighborhood donut place in Polk Gulch. The interior is bare bones but the donuts are old school and delicious. I enjoyed an old fashioned (what else?). Bob’s has a very interesting (not duplicated anywhere else to my knowledge) shtick. They sell gigantic $10.95 each donuts (see photo) and have a donut eating challenge. Specifically:

“Eat one donut within 3 minutes. It’s as simple as that.

If you finish in 2 minutes, you get your $10.95 refunded, a free drink, a Bob’s Donut’s T-Shirt, and your name listed on the Hall of Fame.

If you finish in 3 minutes, you still win a Bob’s Donut’s T-Shirt and get your name listed on the Hall of Fame.”

Either way, if you really eat that huge donut, you are invariably in for a huge stomach ache. Worth trying; wish I’d done it!