Along with the birdlife, beautiful beaches and mountainscapes, the Tasman district has a healthy (cough) donut population. These guys live their short, delicious lives racked up in the cabinet at the Smoking Barrel in Motueka, followed by a brief migration to plate, then stomach.
The different morphs are environmental in origin, even the Loaded Donut Fries morph has the same genetic makeup as the French Toast and Rocky Road morphs. Late in the day, the Smoking Barrel donut can seem to be an endangered species, but new ones hatch and emerge the following morning.
There is also a subspecies, the gluten-free donut, although its population is smaller.
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