Picture of the week: Drinking, driving and mini donuts

December 9, 2009 - 7:15 AM by Nicky

Sufganiyot.

The shops are full of them, everyone is offering you them, and – worse than that – it’s almost churlish to refuse. Yes, Hannukah is almost upon us, and donut production has gone into overdrive.

The shops and bakeries began selling sufganiyot some weeks ago, but now sales are getting serious. Tray after tray of these sugary, fried cholesterol bombs are on display everywhere tempting the unwitting, unwary or just plain foolhardy.

Every year bakeries outdo themselves to come up with something new. So we’ve had peanut butter donuts, halva and dulce de leche. This year, however, the alcohol importers have decided to get in on the act with a new type of donut – soaked in vodka . One 100-gram donut contains the alcohol content of a bottle of beer. So don’t eat more than one if you want to drive home.

While I’ve never been a great fan of the donut – except the small ones filled with chocolate and cream that Roladin creates – even the greatest lovers of these calorie-laden balls would find it hard to eat a donut with pleasure after reading an article by nutritionist Limor Gilat in Ha’aretz
this week.

Each donut, she points out, contains between 350-800 calories, and to burn off these calories, you would have to run at a sprint for an hour straight. And digestion, well, Gilat goes into some detail about the arduous work your body has to do to get that jelly donut through your system.

So what’s the answer? Gilat suggests a mixture of restraint and abandon, and some mint-flavored gum. I’d like to put forward a suggestion too – why don’t bakeries drastically reduce their size (even smaller than Roladin’s donuts), so we have mini sufganiyot. I know my kids would love them, and so would the nation’s kupat holim (health authorities). Photo by Nati Shohat /Flash90.

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