national donut day ruined after local shop reveals "hole" is actually just a tax avoidance strategy, customers furious (AITA for still eating them?)
TBH, I can't even with this timeline. So today is National Donut Day, right? A massive celebration of fried dough and corporate-sponsored sugar highs. But my local hipster donut joint, "Dough or Die," just dropped a truth bomb that's literally breaking my brain. They posted a manifesto on Instagram (yeah, I know) claiming the hole in the middle of a donut isn't for "even cooking" or "aesthetics" but a literal loophole in the tax code. They said because the donut is technically a "ring-shaped pastry with a volumetric void," it qualifies as an "incomplete product" under some obscure IRS rule, so they don't have to pay the full "finished goods" tax. They're calling it "The Great Doughnut Depreciation." Customers are losing their minds, demanding refunds for all the "empty space" they paid for. One Karen is suing for "emotional distress from conceptual emptiness." Meanwhile, I'm just standing there with my maple-glazed, feeling personally attacked. AITA for still eating their donuts because they’re objectively delicious, even if my purchase is now a political statement about tax fraud? TL;DR: National Donut Day revealed donut holes are a tax scam, and I'm complicit.