I've always been scared of the zipper. It's gone through a bunch of different name changes but that ride just always terrified me growing up. Might have been because both in London and in Toronto at the CNE there were fatalities on it. Why am I drudging this up you ask? Well because of mini-donuts that's why. Follow my crazy train of thought here.. but there are certain foods that envoke that nostalgia of the fair: candy apples, cotton candy, mini-donuts, pogos & cheese on a stick. Other than the last two the Donut Diva Food truck has you covered as she offers a variety of 40 different sugary flavours to add onto your mini donuts including: Key Lime, Candy Apple, Coffee Crisp, Cinnamon Bun, Lemon Meringue, Chocolate Raspberry... to name a few.
She is normally in Sarnia Ont, but has graced London with her presence this summer to bring the sugary snack to our neck of the woods. She's downtown mostly, look up her facebook for daily locations, at some events going on and also at the Masonville Farmers Markets on Fridays. Until today she as alluded me but I caught the truck on Pall Mall street and had to give it a whirl. For my inaugural taste test of course traditional cinnamon had to happen. After all that is to donuts as chicken fingers & ceaser salad is to a good greasy spoon diner. It's a litmus test. If you screw that up, nothing is gonna go right on the menu. If you do it right... this is the place to be.
They did not disappoint. If you eat them fresh you get that awesome sort of outside crunch, sweet melt in your mouth funnel cake texture inside and a pop of cinnamon sugar to die for. I appreciate also that they aren't overly greasy or over sugared where the bottom of the bag is coated in topping. I also went for the Salted Caramel and was astonished how much it actually tasted like that. I will definitely try to catch her again sometime while she is here and possibly if ever up Sarnia way, if she decides to go back... of course, we could just support her truck and make her never want to go back ;) Is kidnapping out of the question? Anyways.. I like the donuts, you will too!! read more