1They're only good when they're piping hot.
Portland Press Herald//Getty ImagesMost of the time, your donut has been sitting in its little bin for hours (if not days, depending where you go) which means it's stale as heck. The only way a donut can even remotely be enjoyed is piping hot, glaze melting everywhere—and that's rarely the case.
2They're WAY overhyped.
Chelsea LupkinPeople LOVE to love donuts. Sorry, but loving donuts doesn't make you an interesting person. Those pictures of all of your donuts neatly placed in a box on Insta may be cute, but deep down you know that donuts truly are the Howie Dorough (the fifth guy in Backstreet Boys) of the dessert world.
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3Brownies and cookies are better.
Chelsea LupkinThere. Just gonna say it. Brownies are chocolatey and fudgy, while cookies are perfectly chewy and moist. Donuts on the other hand? They're sticky and stale. You know if you had to choose between the three, you'd never ever put donut as number one, let alone number two.
4The dough-to-icing ratio is always off.
David SilvermanThere's almost always TOO MUCH dough. You need SO much icing just to get the right dough to icing bite that it almost makes picking the right donut a complete nightmare.
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5One donut has a quarter of all of the saturated fat you should have in a day.
Getty ImagesDUH, donuts are bad for you. But do you know just how bad? An original Krispy Kreme donut has 11 grams of fat—5 of those being saturated—while a Dunkin' original donut has 6 gram of saturated fat (30 percent of your fat intake). Meanwhile, a typical chocolate chip cookie has 2.4 grams of saturated fat...so um...let's just agree that donuts are sugar AND fat bombs.
6They don't even keep you full.
Getty ImagesYou have to eat three entire donuts just to feel remotely full. They're literal wastes of space inside your stomach.
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7Donut puns are genuinely the worst part about donuts.
Getty ImagesDONUT get me started on the donut puns out there. Working in the food world, I detest donut puns more than the actual donut itself. They're cheap, cheesy, and make everyone groan when they read your "Donut worry, be happy" caption.
8Flavors have gotten completely OUT OF CONTROL.
Pickle donuts? Pulled pork donuts? Buffalo donuts? These are real flavors that exist in this universe—and they don't deserve to. It's like people know donuts are so boring and lame that they have to add crazy sh*t on top in hopes we won't all see what's truly lying beneath. But we know. We know.
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