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They're DONUT HOLES (lemmy.world)
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[-] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 41 points 8 months ago

To be honest, they should be called "Donut Plugs"

[-] Bassman27@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Mouth beads

[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 8 months ago

Donut bungs.

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

Donut swarf.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 35 points 8 months ago

Tim bits is what we use in Canada

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What? They’re donut holes, Timbits is only from Tim hortons, that’s a trademark name.

It would be like calling all breakfast sandwiches McMuffins dude.

[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 28 points 8 months ago

Show a Canadian this picture, ask them what it is, and you will get a 99.9% answer of Tim bits.

You may be technically correct, but you're wrong. Lol.

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[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 22 points 8 months ago

I've never once heard anyone ever refer to them as anything other than "Timbits", just as I've never heard anyone ask me to pass them a "facial tissue", and I've never heard of "hook and loop fastener" shoes. The word got genericized.

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[-] Luci@lemmy.ca 13 points 8 months ago

Sorry dude, they're timbits

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[-] GiveOver@feddit.uk 11 points 8 months ago

There's plenty of examples of trademark names being used generically. Coke, hoover, Jacuzzi

[-] AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Bullshit, I've never directly asked my drug dealer for coke, we use code words.

[-] GiveOver@feddit.uk 6 points 8 months ago

Coincidentally my drug dealer's code word for me is hoover

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[-] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago

Or all hook and loop, velcro.

Or all cotton swabs, q-tips.

Or all face tissues, kleenex.

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago

They're called 'timbits' to honour the founder who died in a horrific car accident. All that was left of him were bits of Tim.

[-] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 months ago

Yeah that’s stupid that’d be like calling printable camera film a Polaroid. NO ONE would EVER do that!!!

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Let me photoshop this picture of a kleenex to look like it's stuck to a velcro strip...

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

Or like calling all facial tissue "kleenex"

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[-] javiwhite@feddit.uk 28 points 8 months ago

In the UK these are called doughnuts.

The presence of a hole isnt a pre-requisite to being deemed a doughnut here.

Calling something that has zero holes a 'donut hole', will absolutely have a local refer to you as a doughnut tho...

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[-] Spicy_Canada_Dry@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

Timbits. even if they are not form Timmy's

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 16 points 8 months ago
[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think you could even convince English people that "merry fizzlebombs" and "upsy stairsies" are some kind of regional slang. Might even get away with "breaddystack" or "rickedy-pop" if you play your cards right.

[-] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Doughnut balls

We all know the holes are sent to Valhalla.

[-] tino@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

in French: pets de nonne (nun's farts)

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 3 points 8 months ago

France really is doing it to itself

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago
[-] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I call them dough nuts.

[-] aleq@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I just call them type II diabetes

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

In Japan they’re just doughnut balls. Mister Donut calls them “pops.”

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Bread Berries

[-] Rooty@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago
[-] fubarx@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Malasadadas

[-] errer@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Benedict Cumberbatches

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