munchkin

Do I at least get a box of Munchkinsâ„¢ as a consolation prize?

Lampbane, you just lost the Game.

Munchkin is also a term for a role-playing gamer who is more interested in exploiting the rules, making their character as powerful as possible, and "winning the game" than they are in actually playing a role.

There is no winning in role-playing games. There is merely dead or not dead.

Er.. *shifty eyes* I may not have actually been in Italy. There's a Carnevale festival here every year, but this is South Australia, so perhaps it's not the most authentic Italian cuisine... But the bloke selling them was a first generation Italian immigrant. I knew his wife, so he used to sometimes just give me random food. It was quite good.

They weren't quite like that Pro, they were just long sticks. I am beginning to get the suspicion that Dom just made them up.

Plethora, which part of Italy did you visit for Carnevale? Because frisjoli longhi are a typical Carnival treat in Sardinia...

Well, okay, more for the rest of us then. :)

Thanks, CB, but I looked at the site and saw the box with "MUNCHKINS" in big letters and it put me right off. I could never eat these. I concede defeat!

They come in several varieties, crunch, and you can mix and match when you buy them by the dozen.

If it's cheaper and tastes the same, then I can see how the doughnut hole would be superior.

Do they come with cinnamon sugar?

As long as it tastes good, who cares if it's a doughnut or a donut hole??

Personally, I like these long Italian doughnut-sort-of things that I had at Carnivale a few years ago. I can't remember what they're called though. Maybe Pro can help out?

The holes are cheaper.

Yes, they're doughnuts... when they're not made by Dunkin' Donuts.

Donuts, no thanks; doughnuts, yes, please! ;)

My point is, why have the hole when you can have the doughnuts?

What? Who doesn't like donuts?! *shakes head*

We do not have Dunkin' Donuts in the UK, nor in Australia... and I daresay that if I were familiar with these things, I would be so infuriated that they were not the actual doughnuts themselves that I would probably hate the word EVEN MORE!!!!

I am glad it has a use, though.

Crunchysaviour, are you familiar with the little round "donut holes" marketed under this name by Dunkin' Donuts? They're the only reason I think this word is useful. :)

I like this word because it reminds me of The Wizard of Oz.

I think I need to create an Oz list, actually. It's pretty much consuming my brain at the moment, and will continue to do so until I've finished school.

What a simpering, infuriating word. If munchkin was a stick, I would break it in half, stamp on it and set fire to it.