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California’s landscape is dotted with donut shops that elevate fried dough to an art form – the kind of places where the ...

That first bite of a Spudnut is like discovering a secret you can’t believe wasn’t shared with you years ago – a warm, pillowy revelation that makes regular donuts seem like distant, inferior cousins.