Do You Voodoo?

We've been watching a lot of Discovery, Travel & History Channels lately. Greg is addicted to those food shows on the Travel Channel like Bizarre Foods. A while back he saw a bit on Voodoo Doughnuts. Since they are right in our back yard, so to speak, we went over there yesterday to check it out. It's a quirky, eclectic building with interesting stuff inside. Very "keep Portland weird", if you know what I mean.

Here's the outside of the store.


The outside from the front.

The delivery truck.


A cool bush that looks like a voodoo doll.


Voodoo Doughnuts are known for their quirky and weird types of donuts (see their menu). I tried the maple bar with bacon strips. It was quite yummy, actually, but then I love maple bacon and dipping my bacon in maple syrup. We also tried the Memphis Mafia, which is a banana fritter with peanut butter and chocolate frosting and chocolate chips. I did not know until yesterday that peanut butter on a doughnut is actually very good. We also tried the Voodoo doughnut, which is a doughnut shaped like a voodoo doll with raspberry filling to simulate blood. It comes with a pretzel stick to use as your "pin."

For the novelty factor it was fun to try their wares, but at $15 a dozen I think I'll stick to Donut Nook here in Vancouver. They may not be as fancy or have been featured on a food show, but they are cheaper and closer!