Maple Glazed Bacon Doughnuts

Most doughnuts come with powdered sugar, glaze, sprinkles, or something dessert-y like that. But in the Portland, Oregon, area, there’s a chain called Voodoo Doughnut that pushes the envelope — they have roughly 100 varieties, including ones covered in Capt’n Crunch cereal and maple-glazed bacon. But what you won’t find there are doughnuts with over-the-counter medication layered on them, although that’s not for a lack of trying. As Fast Company reports, at one point, Voodoo offered “a Pepto Bismol doughnut–a chalky pink donut that was actually dipped in Pepto and sprinkled with Tums,” which “was conceived as a digestif for Voodoo’s late-night drunks.” (As the owner told Believer Magazine, “I honestly thought if you had that shot of tequila you shouldn’t have at 2:00 a.m., and then you got sugar, bread, Pepto, and Tums, you’d either feel better or puke your ass off and then feel better because you got it out of your system. So it was a win-win either way.) And to help you sleep it off, Voodoo came up with a NyQuil Glazed donut, too. If you go to their stores today, though, you’ll find neither; health authorities told them that adding (legal) drugs to doughnuts is not okay.