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.

Donuts in Jerusalem

Donuts in Jerusalem

Decoding My Donut Ratings

Decoding My Donut Ratings
Practically perfect!
Highly recommended
Pretty good
Keep on walking (inedible)


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!






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