Chocolate covered French cruller

A cruller (or Twister) is a type of doughnut. It is sometimes topped with sugar or icing. It is often twisted (rather than round) in shape and unraised. The word comes from early 19th century Dutch kruller, from krullen "to curl." Image File history File links Size of this preview: 600 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 1024 pixel, file size: 401 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photo by Jeremy Noble from Flickr Chocolate covered cruller/donut/doughnut Attribution 2. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 600 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 1024 pixel, file size: 401 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photo by Jeremy Noble from Flickr Chocolate covered cruller/donut/doughnut Attribution 2. ... Doughnuts being glazed at a Krispy Kreme store in Sydney, Australia. ... Magnification of grains of sugar, showing their monoclinic hemihedral crystalline structure. ... This cake has an icing made with sour cream. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...

It is most commonly found in New England and the Mid-Atlantic and North Central states of the USA, but it is also common in California. This article is about the region in the United States of America. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ...

In 2003, the Dunkin' Donuts chain of doughnut shops stopped carrying traditional crullers, claiming that the hand-shaped treats were too labor-intensive, and couldn't be simulated with new machines for mixing doughnut batter.^[1] Categories: Corporation stubs | Food companies of the United States | Donuts | Corporations with naming rights of indoor arenas ...

Krispy Kreme still sells the Cruller,^[2] while Dunkin' Donuts only carries the French Cruller.^[3] Krispy Kreme is a popular chain of doughnut stores. ... Categories: Corporation stubs | Food companies of the United States | Donuts | Corporations with naming rights of indoor arenas ...

A French cruller is a doughnut made from choux pastry. They are usually shaped like a fluted ring and have a light airy texture. Sometimes these are also simply known as "crullers," but they have little resemblance to the other kind of cruller other than that they are both types of doughnuts. Choux pastry (French: pâte à choux, German: Brandteig) is a form of light pastry used to make profiteroles, eclairs, beignets and cream puffs. ...

In popular culture

• In an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Once More, With Feeling"), the character Xander paraphrases the movie Magnolia with the line "Respect the cruller, and tame the donut."
• Crullers were served by Aunt Em on the [Wizard of Oz] movie.
• In an episode of Daria ("Through a Lens Darkly"), Jane refers to Daria as a "twisted little cruller".
• In the film Wayne's World, Wayne orders "coffee and crullers" as a hangover cure for a "partied-out" friend.
• The comic strip Get Fuzzy noted the demise of crullers at Dunkin Donuts several times.
• The comic series, Common Grounds, was originally published as the mini-comic, Holey Crullers, centering on a chain of doughnut shops called Holey Crullers (ie, crullers with holes in them).
• The comic series, The Simpsons, Cruller is the name of a sarcastic mascot for the (fictional) donut chain "Lard Lad Donuts".
• The video game Psychonauts, Cruller is the last name of the demented Ford Cruller who suffers from problems with multiple personalities - his last name probably meant to evoke his twisted nature, like the twisted dough of a cruller.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated American cult television series that initially aired from March 10, 1997 until May 20, 2003. ... Once More, With Feeling is a musical episode of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... Alexander LaVelle Xander Harris (born 1981 in Sunnydale, California) is a fictional character in the cult television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... Magnolia is a 1999 drama film, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. ... Daria is an American animated television series that aired from 1997 to 2002 and was created by Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis Lynn for MTV. A spin-off of MTVs Beavis and Butt-head, Daria also became something of a cultural icon. ... Waynes World was one of the most popular recurring sketches to come from the NBC television series Saturday Night Live. ... Get Fuzzy is an American daily comic strip written and drawn by Darby Conley. ... Written by Troy Hickman, this series examined the life of superheroes in and around a coffee shop called Common Grounds. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... Psychonauts is a platform game developed by Double Fine Productions, published by Majesco, and released on April 19, 2005, for the Microsoft Xbox, the Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows. ...

References

1. ^ Boston Globe article With Progress, a Cruel Twist, 10/25/2003: http://www.boston.com/ae/food/articles/2003/10/25/with_progress_a_cruel_twist/
2. ^ Krispy Kreme Product List
3. ^ Dunkin' Donuts Product List

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