I’m not sure why, but when I woke up Sunday morning in bleak, dreary Gallup, NM, (sorry Gallup CoC) I wanted a donut. I didn’t say anything. It’s not helpful to want things you (think you) can’t have. Donuts are not very whole food plant based, since they tend to have a ton of sugar and usually coconut oil in them. I probably should’t even admit to having these. But eating out reviews are different than the work I do at home … so here goes.
As it turns out, there was a shop a bit off the beaten path in a nondescript shopping center on the West side of town that purported to have at least three vegan donuts on offer at any one time. As I mentioned in an earlier review, we were traveling with our favorite quadruped, so it just wasn’t going to be an option to sit down at a table inside somewhere and get real food. To go food was going to have to do.
I wish I had taken a picture of Sweetie’s face when he rushed outside to tell me that they had not three, not four – but SIX vegan donut options. He was like a kid in a, well, donut store. The last time I remember buying a dozen donuts was when we went out to watch a meteor shower one year in the early morning hours and a Krispy Kreme had just opened in the area. We headed out at something stupid like one a.m. to watch the night show on the coast while we made ourselves sick eating a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts to try and stay awake.
Ah. Youth.
We filled a box with their decadent apple fritters, a green apple-iced donut, a couple of lemony ones, and of course a couple of chocolate covered ones as well.
If you make a wrong turn in Albuquerque, check out Rebel Donuts. You’ll be glad you did.