Clark: Raising The Maple Bar

There have been a lot of cruel accusations lately about Americans being overly fat, which, if you ask me, are mostly due to bathroom scale malfunctions. Even if the charges are true, however, I would encourage the nation’s food nannies to eat a Flatliner or two at Spokane’s Donut Parade, 2152 N. Hamilton St. They’ll soon discover what I learned during my visit there Wednesday morning. Not being able to look down and see your feet is a small price to pay for the joys of munching one of these chewy mergers of meat and maple. What’s a Flatliner, you ask? It is (and I hope you’re sitting down right now) an oven-fresh maple bar that has been covered with thick bacon and then impaled end-to-end by a long link pork sausage. A cholesterol time bomb, you say? An arterial clogger? Yeah, the Flatliner probably violates several edicts of the Geneva Conventions as well/ Doug Clark , SR. More here. (SR photo of Donut Parade regular Richard Hodge eating a Flatliner)

Question: And your favorite type of doughnut?