• javiwhite@feddit.uk
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    3 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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      3 months ago

      But how do you differentiate between a doughnut ( o ) and a doughnut o. I’d be so pissed if I asked for a doughnut and someone handed me this tiny shit.

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            3 months ago

            What part of the UK are they called doughballs? ive never heard them called that.

            Only reference I can think of is Pizza express’ dough balls, but they’re a savoury dough ball rather than sweet like a doughnut.

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      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.

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        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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          Sure, let’s go down to McDonald’s and get “timbits”.

          That was because tim hortons was the only place for a while, that’s stopped being the case about a decade ago when other places started offering them too.

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            I know what you’re saying but at the same time, I’m living in the GTA. Everyone I know calls them timbits, correctly or incorrectly.

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              3 months ago

              Genericisation. It happens all the time!

              Other examples (that are at least used generically in the UK).

              Astroturf, bubble wrap, hoover, hovercraft, jacuzzi, rollerblades and tarmac.

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            3 months ago

            they are mini filled doughnuts and larger than Timbits. its not the same thing, just because its small and round wont make it a timbit.

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        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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          That was because Tim’s was the only place, that’s since been changed a decade ago and hasn’t been the case since then.

          It’s not a genericized term like Kleenex and escalator, sorry.

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              Other places absolutely can’t advertise as Timbits, that’s a trademarked name.

              Don’t make shit up dude.

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                I didn’t claim that. I don’t think you understand what people in this thread are saying.

                Other companies can’t advertise their products as “Kleenex”, but that doesn’t stop most people from calling all facial tissues Kleenex.

                Most Canadians call them Timbits.

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                  In every place I’ve been to in Canada

                  Canada is already a place, what other “places” would you be referring to other than place (stores) like Tim Hortons, McDonalds, etc. in your comment?

                  Yes Canadians may incorrectly call them Tim Bits, but other places can’t since the trademark is owned by Tim Hortons. No need to lie that other places call it that when they can’t or they would get sued and easily lose dude….

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

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        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.

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

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

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        Google, xerox, velcro, escalator are all trademark names as well, but people use them in a general sense. Sometimes trademark names become so popular that they get used in a general way, I don’t know what’s confusing you, this is a fairly common phenomenon

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      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.

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      The inclusion of a rape joke made this go from funny to unfunny so quickly.

      Granted this was from 2010, and we were all making terrible jokes back then.

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    Am I the only one that finds the whole “fake British words” genre of meme painfully unfunny?

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    3 months ago

    Munchkins. Idc if they aren’t from Dunkin’.

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      Donut is just an American variation of the spelling, and considering they’re talking about what Americans call this, donut is perfectly acceptable, and maybe even a more correct usage than the doughnut spelling