Food Review: 2020 Sidecar Maple Bacon Doughnut

"way2blu does a rev update" (way2blu) 08/21/2020 at 20:00 • Filed to: WAY2EAT, donuts, foodlopnik, food review

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Welcome to another food review with !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ! Yesterday, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Having now eaten the donut(s), I can provide the answers you’re all drooling for.

Background - Sidecar Doughnuts

!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! founded in 2013. They make premium donuts with a variety of flavors and styles. Their tagline is “World’s Freshest Doughnuts” as they make their donuts daily.

Unboxing

Sidecar’s smallest box actually seats 6 (six!) donuts, also known as a “half-dozen” in donut enthusiast circles. The box has a nice big logo and a cute sticker to keep the box closed and the donuts fresh.

Open the box, and you’re greeted with Sidecar’s tagline and a short blurb about their donut-making philosophy. A tasty maple-bacon donut sits tantalizingly within reach.

Flavor & Quality

This maple bacon donut is yummy. The bacon tastes juicy yet luckily lacks a greasy texture, and the multiple maple-bacon and maple-syrup glaze flavors blend together quite well.

Even after one bite, the donut’s cohesiveness as a snack and/or meal is quite apparent. Excellent flavors and execution.

Donut Drawbacks & Dilemmas

I cannot, in good faith, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . As a pickup line, it is woefully inadequate because it’s too tasty, and will go to your waistline well before it has the chance to impress anyone else.

!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and I have two words in response: Yes. Please. That’s all.

Price & Conclusion

With an MSRP of around $4.50 per donut (not to mention the cost of the marathon you’ll have to run to burn the calories from half a dozen of these) the 2020 Sidecar Maple Bacon Doughnut is an exercise in excess, and excercise.

Are you hungry yet? Would you dare eat a Sidecar Maple Bacon Doughnut? I survived to write this review, at least for now. What kinds of foods do you want to see reviewed next?

gin-san - shitpost specialist > way2blu does a rev update 08/21/2020 at 09:42

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This seems to be a pretty popular flavour, there’s a fancy donut shop in my area that became well known for a maple bacon donut. I personally wasn’t a big fan of it - I like maple flavour, I love bacon, I love doughnuts, but not this combo. I don’t hate it enough that I wouldn’t take it if it wasn’t the only flavour left, but it wouldn’t be my first choice.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > way2blu does a rev update 08/21/2020 at 09:48

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As an aside it’s a little weird that the “healthy eating capital” of the USA is always purported to be SoCal... and yet mainstream and gourmet donut specialty shops are everywhere.  It’s a very popular format-- and quite successful-- in a place where everybody claims to run a marathon daily and only eat vegan, gluten-free, free-range cuisine.

hillrat > way2blu does a rev update 08/21/2020 at 09:55

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Cool story bro. As a dude who prefers a savory, salty, meaty breakfast (I’m literally eating bacon, eggs, and toast as I type this) over a carby sweet breakfast, doughnuts aren’t really my thing.

I’d love to see a ranking of weird regional pork products like scrapple vs liver mush vs Goetta vs pork roll vs some weird ass shit I haven’t heard of.

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > gin-san - shitpost specialist 08/21/2020 at 10:23

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Same. Apart, they are wonderful, but I don’t love them together.

sony1492 > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 08/21/2020 at 10:28

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Something something generalizations, vocal minorities 

BaconSandwich is tasty. > way2blu does a rev update 08/21/2020 at 11:05

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$4.50 a donut?!  Dang.  That’s like... almost $6 CAD.  Too rich for my blood!

Chariotoflove > BaconSandwich is tasty. 08/21/2020 at 12:03

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Literally and figuratively.

AestheticsInMotion > way2blu does a rev update 08/21/2020 at 20:08

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But what other flavors did you get? I assume you didn't just buy a single donut! 

barnie > way2blu does a rev update 08/21/2020 at 21:38

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Early 70s I went to work at a Dunkin Donut to learn how to make donuts. Th ey were my Dad’s (RIP) and my favorite junk food. I’d call him (at ~0600) when the spiced old fashioned cakes went into the fryer and we’d have coffee and a couple. Learned how to make donuts from scratch and mix, even the egg rich crullers. Back then and maybe still, DD put chocolate in their coffee . Haven’t had an oil fryer in 30+ years. Maybe I’ll get one now and get back to making them. The yard dogs here would like that...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > way2blu does a rev update 08/21/2020 at 21:53

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So, you ate six donuts? I get indigestion looking at the pictures in your post.