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The Donut House in Anacortes is the best I've had.

Donuts are in my blood (doctors call it "cholesterol"). My grandpa bought donut shops in the LA area, rehabbed them, sold them at a profit. Sometimes was running multiple shops. My dad was running a shop for him just out of high school.

When I was a kid, we were driving down to visit and got into SoCal (ILTCIT) in the wee hours of the night, so we just rocked right up to Grandpa's donut shop and watched him bake. Fun fact: Fritters are just the scraps from all of the day's donuts cut with fruit (apples, blueberries, whatever) and dropped in the fat. It's why they're so fucking good. They're ALL the donuts.

I fell asleep on the bags of flowers, was nudged awake and pushed toward the van, and ate about 30 day-olds over the course of the rest of the day.