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When popular food market Smorgasburg returns to outdoor venues this weekend, it will reach a new level of insane novelty food with the debut of a spaghetti doughnut. Gothamist took a look at new vendors and said that the doughnuts from vendor Pop Pasta are “gimmicky to be sure, but also taste good and are fun to eat.”

According to Pop Pasta’s website, the doughnut is a baked, handheld take on spaghetti pie — for which pasta is combined with eggs and cheese and then fried and served in slices. Options include Red Sauce Pop (spaghetti, parmesan, eggs, tomato puree, olive oil, salt), Bolognese Pop (spaghetti, parmesan, eggs, ground beef, tomato puree, olive oil, onions, garlic, salt), and Carbonara Pop (spaghetti, parmesan, eggs, bacon, black pepper, salt).

They look exactly what you might think a doughnut made of spaghetti would look like:

It’s hard to not see this as just another stunt food in the race to create the next viral dish that compels people to stand in hours-long lines. Smorgasburg in particular — the birthplace of the ramen burger and the raindrop cake — has become a fertile breeding ground for items built-for-the-’gram as opposed to food that actually tastes good.

But the food market and its continuing popularity means it is still a huge platform for less gimmicky food entrepreneurs, too — many who go on to open hugely successful brick-and-mortar restaurants.

Some other new vendors Gothamist highlighted include The Burger Supreme (simple, “griddle-steamed” hamburgers), Ube Kitchen (Filipino food, including an ube ice cream-based dessert), and John’s Juice (drinks made from smashed fruits). Metro New York also enjoyed Destination Dumplings (dumplings with fillings like Peking duck or jerk chicken) and Roll Play Viet Noms (Vietnamese spring rolls filled with rice vermicelli noodles).

Smorgasburg returns to Williamsburg at 90 Kent Ave. on Saturday and to Prospect Park’s Breeze Hill on Sunday.

Pop Pasta's Website
Instagram with more pics

 

[The Elite]

This almost looks like early April Fools but I want one.

 

[TheOfficeMut]

Those are bagels.

 

[jelly]

 

[HvySky]

But why?

 

[Randy Monk]

Sorry, can't eat something that looks like my butt hole after a Taco Bell meal

 

[Arc]

We were meant to live for so much more.

 

[The Artisan]

 

[Snagret]

Those actually look kinda good. I'd eat one.

 

[BY2K]

Hell, I'm down.

 

[C.Mongler]

On one hand this looks disgusting. On the other hand, I want one.

 

[SKINNER!]

No thanks

 

[Capra]

Every day we drift further from God's light.

I'd be down.

 

[veryslowhand]

Plane.jpg

 

[Seep]

Not much worse than pineapple on pizza.

 

[notaskwid]

I hope they have success.

 

[Dead Prince]

if the outside is super crispy i might be into it. i would rather take alfredo

 

[Rocketz]

I want to vomit

 

[ArchedThunder]

We deserve climate change.

 

[CambriaRising]

Sorry, can't eat something that looks like my butt hole after a Taco Bell meal

Thanks, now I need to change my shirt because it has coffee all over it.

 

[Snagret]

if the outside is super crispy i might be into it. i would rather take alfredo

Yeah, I'm imagining sort of a crispy fried cheese outer layer, with softer saucy bits on the inside. It certainly isn't healthy, but I don't see anything wrong with it otherwise.

 

[Moppeh]

Seems more like a bagel than a donut.

 

[Correctomundo]

Gonna die anyway. I'll take a dozen.

 

[Dali]

I like a lot of sauce and these seem like mostly noodles. Make a "jelly" version and I... still wouldn't be in but the sauce problem would be solved.

 

[Eidan]

Disgusting. Pineapple on pizza was the harbinger of this abomination.

 

[Elandyll]

Disgusting. Pineapple on pizza was the harbinger of this abomination.

Oh no.
You don't get to put this shit on pineapple pizza.

No sir.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

Those are bagels.

Seems more like a bagel than a donut.

Yep. They're trying to feed us lies

 

[SolVanderlyn]

One good thing plus another good thing does not always equal a good or better thing

 

[SexyFish]

Just stay with pizza bagels god dammit. We don't need ravioli strudels next heathens.

 

[Arkeband]

Is there bread on the bottom or do you just pick up a big wet noodle bagel?

Because I routinely eat my spaghetti by putting it on bread, this wouldn't be much different.

 

[Admiral Woofington]

I mean

I would try it

 

[Hazmat]

It doesn't look bad at all. It's pasta, egg, and cheese baked together which results in something that holds a shape, which in this case looks like a donut. I feel like some of you aren't reading the OP and assuming it's an actually donut that's been combined with spaghetti.

 

[AllGamer]

Mankind was a mistake

 

[Cymbal Head]

Roll Play Viet Noms

Go to hell

 

[Mix Master]

my stomach is turning. disgusting.

 

[Whompa02]

I really want to throw up. That looks honest to god disgusting.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

Just gonna quote myself from the other thread since it applies here too:

Food for fun is okay. Food for functional sustenance is okay.

However, if you view 'fine cuisine' as a form of art or the culmination of hundreds of years of cultural experimentation and consensus, just throwing random shit in a pot and calling it Food X is either distasteful or ignorant. You're free to make new, different foods all you like, but you can't make champagne without grapes, you can't make an omelette without eggs. Blueberry pie filling isn't 'just as good' as putting mushroom & pepperoni on a pizza, any more than eating raw flour and sugar is 'just as good' as having a brownie. There are levels to this stuff once you start getting into the realm of discerning flavor and making culinary recommendations.

Innovation and challenging your pallet is always important, but as I said, recipes only bend so far before they break and you're making a totally different food.

 

[Roubjon]

It's literally pasta in the shape of a bagel. I don't understand the disgust here.

 

[johancruijff]

 

[soundscream]

I know im going to be in the minority, but that looks good.

 

[AlexFlame116]

Good Lord.

Disgusting. Pineapple on pizza was the harbinger of this abomination.

You keep pineapple out of this!

 

[CreepingFear]

Came here for this. Needs the part where he eats it and has to call 911 lol

 

[Atolm]

Jesus Christ there really is a Simpson gif for everything.

 

[Last_colossi]

 

[GulAtiCa]

Well, I'm kinda curious how it tastes..

 

[richiek]

Knowing Smorgasberg, they'll probably charge 10 bucks for each spaghetti donut.

 

[Aiii]

Nobody asked for this.

 

[Regiruler]

Hm

I would try it

 

[Elandyll]

It's literally pasta in the shape of a bagel. I don't understand the disgust here.

It's congealed carbs, fat and sugar, reshaped, baked then FRIED to add a little extra fat (and probably salt as well in the process), making it significantly less healthy (not that it was terribly so in the first place) and to no advantage taste wise, just for the novelty's sake.

 

[johancruijff]

imagine Lady and the Tramp with a spaghetti donut

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