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The Death of John Waters: The Divine Donut is a play on the director John Waters and his drag queen star of films such as Mondo Trasho and Female Trouble. And, of course, bacon has the reputation as “the divine swine.” That’s because the doughnut is crusted with candied bacon.
Once the doughnut is removed from the fryer, it’s immediately soaked in syrup made of Jim Beam whiskey and maple. The dark sugars of the maple and whiskey infuse with the fresh cooked dough and essentially encapsulate the doughnut with a half-glaze, half-dipped type exterior. After soaking, Gram dips the doughnut in chopped bits of Nueske’s bacon that’ve been rendered and glazed with maple syrup, giving the doughnut its signature crust. Whiskey. Maple. Bacon. It’s nothing like the simple glazed doughnuts I loved as a kid, but in its four short months of existence the John Waters doughnut has racked up quite the Google search result list.
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