Tuesday, June 19th | The Jelly Donut | 2097 N. Towne Ave, Pomona, CA 91767
As everyone knows, it’s nigh impossible to find a donut shop in Los Angeles. The dearth of popo-breakfast joints here is about as sad as the southland’s now almost decade-long drought.
Well … guess what happened today? (Hint: not rain.)
We found one! Sure, The Jelly Donut is a donut place we’ve driven past probably something close to five hundred times, situated as it is just past the north-bound Towne exit from The Ten Freeway. And sure, we’ve snarked about The Jelly Donut’s lotto ticket offerings and The Jelly Donut’s drive-thru. But what do we know about anything? Very little, just like the rest of humanity, so today we shut off our yapping brains and, on the way home from the car dealer (just repairs), we pulled into The Jelly Donut’s sole parking spot.
En route, we also did some research: The Jelly Donut sports a 4.5/5 (!) rating on Yelp. The Jelly Donut does indeed sell lotto tickets, and they’re good at this, as is revealed by their bulletin board thick with sold lotto-winning tickets. The Jelly Donut’s raspberry donut (99 cents and pedestrian at best) is not, contrary to one Yelp review, filled with real raspberries. And, gasp: The Jelly Donut is not even named The Jelly Donut – it’s just “Jelly Donut”!
Plus they sell breakfast sandwiches:
Good ones, too! Choice of croissant (baked a bit close, so more gummy than flaky, but still a good buttery flavor) or bagel (visually: huge, soft). Everything comes with egg and cheese, then your choice of added protein from the usual breakfast sandwich menu (plus: deli turkey). Is the American cheese white, and, as it melts, does it look disturbingly like dripping mayo? Yes! Do the counterworkers ask, automatically, if you’d like pickled jalapeno slices? Yes! (And: yes!) Will we be going back to THE JELLY DONUT for a $4.20 croissant with egg, cheese, jalapeno, and ham? The egg was nicely eggy, the composition flavorful – better than fast food by a far sight. So: maybe?
But just try keeping us away from the $1.55 apple fritter!
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