The doughnut craze is here! As this dessert food gains
popularity, just about every confectionary is lining their shelves with this
delectable snack. “With the ever growing craze for doughnuts, it’s become a
popular snack,” affirms Chef Marlon Lobo. “Largely an influence from the West,
it’s a relaxing quick bite food.”
Endorsing its popularity, pastry chef and owner of Baker’s
Street, Porvorim, Gilroy D’Souza points out that, “Like cup cakes, doughnuts
are now the preferred snacks for tea time.” Basically fried dough with infused
or glazed toppings, the original doughnut was topped with chocolate. Several
variants with sugar, cinnamon and other stuffing followed with time.
Capitalising on this popularity, Marlon, creator of the
widely followed Facebook page The Goan Foodie, once again teams up with three
other food enthusiasts – Fabian Franco, Gitanjali Chhetri and Daniel Carneiro
to hold a Flash Doughnut Eating Contest. “Since doughnuts are getting to be so
popular, our foodies on Facebook were game for a doughnut eating contest. Since
Gilroy’s doughnuts are some of the best, we decided to hold the contest there,”
explains Marlon.
The term flash has apparently been borrowed from the flash
events happening on the internet. “How long does it take to eat a palm-sized
doughnut? Twelve doughnuts can be downed in a flash in under 10 minutes which
is what our contest is about,” reveals Marlon.
The term ‘fefie’ was coined by Goan Foodie Daniel Carneiro
to combine ‘flash’ and ‘selfie’. “We asked contestants to send us a selfie of
them eating a doughnut. The first six who sent it, qualified,” says Marlon of
the contest which was announced a week ago. With the contestants all ready and
set to bite into 12 varieties of doughnuts developed by Gilroy – chocolate,
white chocolate, glazed, cinnamon, sugar, strawberry, centre-filled double
chocolate, Irish cream, blueberry, caramel and nougat, the contest promises to
be a mouth-watering one.
The contest is a second in a series of activities of The
Goan Foodie, the first being the very successful ‘Goan Man vs Food’ contest
held a few months earlier. “Our aim is to just let people know where good food
can be found in Goa. And anyone who sells good food – whether it’s in a fine
restaurant or a ‘gadda’ deserves to be on our page,” avers Marlon who is elated
at a following of around 5,500 in a matter of six and a half months since the
page started.
(Flash Doughnut Eating Contest will be held at Baker’s
Street, CHOGM Road, Porvorim today at 4pm)
