{"id":13084,"date":"2015-09-25T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13084"},"modified":"2015-09-25T07:54:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T11:54:31","slug":"why-donut-holes-have-shrunk-over-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/why-donut-holes-have-shrunk-over-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Donut Holes Have Shrunk Over The Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/092515_1152_WhyDonutHol1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"489\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the chart above shows, it seems like donut holes have been shrinking. Phil Edwards looked into some of the potential reasons why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Donut holes were originally put in there to make sure the treat was fried evenly. If it didn&#8217;t have a hole then the inside would be less well cooked than the outside.<\/li>\n<li>Improved technology meant that it was possible to get a more even fry without a big hole.<\/li>\n<li>Smaller holes mean that a donut is less likely to break.<\/li>\n<li>People may have become used to cream or chocolate filled donuts, making the ring-like large-hole donuts seem like anachronisms.<\/li>\n<li>Chains each had their own standardized vision of what a donut should look like. We may now expect donuts to have small holes simply because small donut hole chains like Krispy Kreme won the donut chain wars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read other theories, and some caveats over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/9\/20\/9353957\/donut-hole-size-chart\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/9\/20\/9353957\/donut-hole-size-chart\">Vox<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the chart above shows, it seems like donut holes have been shrinking. Phil Edwards looked into some of the potential reasons why: Donut holes were originally put in there to make sure the treat was fried evenly. If it didn&#8217;t have a hole then the inside would be less well cooked than the outside. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/092515_1152_WhyDonutHol1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13087,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084\/revisions\/13087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}