City of Donuts

There are a lot of donut shops in Los Angeles. Every corner has a Randy's Donuts or a Stan's Donuts or some other building with a man's name and the word "Donuts" after it.

All of them look like they were built and 1955 and then left alone to slowly decay, as if they're not really restaurants but rather elaborate mausoleums housing the actual original donuts that belonged to Randy or Stan or whoever the hell's name is on the roof.

There have been some donut innovations in the last few years, however. I was in a 7-11 last night and Krispy Kreme was offering a donut that is actually 5 donut holes stuck together. This is a pretty lazy innovation, of course, and completely destroys the entire concept of the donut hole since (a) the collection of holes is exactly the same size as an actual donut and (b) the donut-hole-donut did not itself have a donut hole.

Donuts haven't seen this kind of controversy since the much fought over introduction of the fritter.