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As part of our 125th anniversary celebration this year, Blue Collar Joe’s will produce a Roanoke Times anniversary doughnut. What flavor or ingredients should be in the recipe? Share your thoughts on The Roanoke Times Facebook page.
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I don’t have a favorite vineyard. I have never been to any of the local vineyards, so this will be a new adventure, and might create a new fan.
I realize this isn’t the FB page, but I prefer to offer my opinion here. We have such a diverse selection of fruits and nuts that grow naturally in this area, it makes selecting one difficult. My thoughts are equally divided between peaches and blackberries. Both of these grow wild in this region, as well as being cultivated. It’s hard to imagine anything better than biting into a sun warmed peach and having the succulent flavor fill your mouth as the juice runs down your arm to drip off your elbow or the burst of sweetness as you devour the freshly picked blackberry instead of putting it into your bucket. These two flavors remind me of sun filled days spent picking fruit to carry home to be made into shortcakes, cobblers or jams or to eat plain for a snack. These are the flavors of home.
How about a vanilla with some mixed in socialism sweetner, infused with liberal nuts, toped with biased berries, followed up with a side of I heartobama cream. The donut will cost a couple million dollars, and nobody will see it, just like the taubman art museum.
Love blue collar donuts though.
I’m not a peach fan, but I agree with Vickie about the blackberries. Add to that peanuts in some form, in honor of the peanut soup at the Hotel Roanoke. A touch of maple, for the wonderful syrup that comes from just north of us in Highland county. Apples are an obvious choice, but I don’t know how well they’d go with the assembled flavors already in the mix. And, while there seems to be a trend combining sweet and savory, I just don’t like the idea of adding bacon no matter how pork-centric a place this part of Virginia is. That’s my two cents (3.34 cents, adjusted for inflation).