Buffalo Rising Online

In today's calorie counting, carb fasting, waistline obsessed culture, (where good health often falls in line behind good abs) it surprises me that the donut chain has seemingly taken over the world- and Western New York is certainly no exception.

We may look like easy targets with our deep love for chicken wings and pizza, but we're not fools, we know a good donut when we see one. A least that's what I thought until I sampled some of the Nerf-textured flavorless sugar bombs people have been buying by the dozen from the Big 3. Yep, that's right, the Big 3: Dunkin Donuts, Tim Hortons and Krispy Kreme, the folks that have taken your dough in exchange for mechanically manufactured, coma inducing hockey pucks. For shame.

I don't want to hear about the coffee, the sandwiches, the double-whipped chilled vanilla mint “latte”, the donut conveyor belt or rolling up the rim. I'm talking about donuts.

Artisan donut shops are the latest trend, popping up all over the country. Some offe…