Driving around in your house has it's advantages in that you ALWAYS have your food supply with you. There is never a moment when you are out in your car and decide you REALLY need a snack but you are 200 miles, (or feet) from the nearest Mac Donalds. (There are almost as many Mac Donalds as there are Walgreens stretching across this nation AND Canada. This is a fact that we have researched! You may be hard put to find a Burger King but NEVER a Mac Donalds. They are EVERY WHERE ! (Well done Ray Kroc !)
Any way . . . this idea of always having food at your fingertips has been a delight for Mr. D and a bane for me. We will be barreling, (note I use this word often and for good reason because it really does describe our rate of travel.) down the road and the man will get a hankering for a snack. (And if you believe that is it Dwayne's idea to snack then you really don't know me that well.) But who ever gets the brilliant idea first makes no difference because we both know that a snack is only a few feet away in the back of the RV. There I can find a full fridge with enough goodies to keep the French Foreign Legion marching for weeks. Not to mention the snack cabinet above the fridge that is full of all sorts of happy things. First and foremost in this arsenal of food are the bags of donuts. My man Dwayne is a sucker for sweets . . . cookies, cake, donuts and sticky buns, (which for some reason the middle of the country has the market cornered on. I have never tasted such amazing sticky buns as the ones you get from Michigan to Alaska). All these calorie packed goodies are top in D's daily menu. First thing in the morning we MUST have a cup of coffee and a sweet. (And the man NEVER gains an ounce while I am packing on the pounds by the mile.)
Along our journey West I have the job of making the morning run into the gas station "quick shop" to get the morning coffee while D fills the RV with gas for our day's journey. Along with the coffee I go on the safari hunt for the morning sweet. Most places just have the generic muffins, sweet rolls and donuts pre packaged and tasting of cellophane. (Not that the taste of cellophane has stopped us yet). I will choose something to munch on with our coffee as we roll on down the road to our next stop. So far we haven't found anything extraordinary, with the exception of the sticky bun that we got in a diner in Anchorage when we met Ruth for breakfast. That thing was the size of the tires on the RV. It could have fed a family of five with some left over. Ruth ordered it, ate about 3 bites and had the waitress box the remainder for us to take with us down the road. OH MAMA !! Was that ever good.. After that it was back to semi stale but still satisfying goodies from the gas station stops. UNTIL !!!! . . . About 4 days ago I was checking out the selection of goodies while D gassed up and I picked up a bag of HOSTESS mini donuts. (As I was getting out of the RV D said, "See if they have any donuts so it was donuts that I had on my radar.) There are certain criteria that must be followed when choosing snacks for the RV.
#1 . . . The snack has to be small enough to hold in your hand while driving.
#2 . . . The snack can not be messy. No dripping syrup, Not too sticky, No sugar falling into your lap and GOD forbid,
#3 . . . NOTHING THAT IS CRUMBLY !!!! We can not have crumbs flying all over the cab.
So when I saw this bag of mini donuts with a sugar glaze I figured they just might fit the bill.
HOLY COW DID WE HIT THE MOTHER LOAD with these little suckers. Neither one of us has ever had such a good donut in our lives. Not Dunkin donuts, Not Crispy Cream and not even Publix, who has the very best bakery in the world can compare to this little bag of HEAVEN ! We did manage to nurse the bag for 2 days but by the time we got into Fairbanks we were on our last bite. Since we had to go to the store for a few other items we just happened to come across the Hostess donuts where we bought our next bag of minis. Unfortunately they did not have the awesome glazed ones so we had to branch out and try the "crunch" donut which is coated in a sugar glaze and then rolled in coconut. (Normally this would be a No No because D doesn't care for coconut AND the coconut has a tendency to flake off all over the place. But seeing how we were going to be stationary for a while we thought we would give them a try.) They are pretty good but not as good as the original bag. But now the quest is on to try EVERY type of donut that Hostess makes to determine, (In the name of Science), just which donut type is the very best.
I will be sure to include this scientific study in my medical history when I go for my next physical and am 20 pounds heavier than before.
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