What do you guys call a long rectangular donut and what state are you from?

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1. I don’t have a word for this 

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3. Donut Stick

   Typically glazed stick or jelly stick.

4. Long John. Indiana. 

5. I live in California now and they call it a bar.

6. Maple bar or chocolate bar, depending on the icing. Never heard of a “long John” donut.

7. I just call it an eclair

8. I don’t even know a term for that to be honest. It’s not a food I encounter often.

9. Had to look it up. It looks like an eclair that grew up in the midwest. I have no word for these and I dont recall ever seeing one.

10. Long john. Sometimes an eclair, but that’s actually not the same thing.

11. Looooooooong Jon

12. Illinois – Long John

13. I just call it a donut.

14. Long John. Midwest (IL/MO).

15. Long john

16. Cruller. Very different from the French Cruller that is round and fluted and very eggy.

17. A [flavor] bar.

18. I don’t recall them having a name outside of the specific flavor it was.

19. SE US. Long John, unless it’s got maple icing. Then it’s a maple bar

20. I grew up calling them Long John – from Illinois

21. I’m from Kentucky (so a mashup of Midwest and southern? I think) and we call them long John’s.

22. Long John, Indiana

23. Chicago area, long john

24. Long John and I’m in IL.

25. New York. I’ve always just called them donuts. If someone said “long John” I’d picture the clothing or the restaurant Long John Slivers.

26. It’s a long john in southern Ohio as well, but I’ve heard the weirdos in the northern part of the state call it a cream stick.

27. We call it a maple bar or chocolate bar here in WA state.

28. Grew up in CNY. We all call them fingers.

29. Maple bar

30. Long john is what we call them in Oklahoma

31. Grew up in Wisconsin. It’s a long john.

32. Maple bar? Chocolate bar? Depending on the icing

33. Bar. I’m from California.

34. Wisconsin and we call it Long John

35. I call it a bar. 

36. Well this is enlightening… apparently I’m in the minority of calling it a bar (maple bar, chocolate bar etc). Never heard long John in my life. I’m from the PNW.

37. It’s a “what the fuck is that?” here in the DC area.

38. Maple Bar!Montana native, California resident, same name both places.

39. Grew up on the west coast and always called it a Bar like a maple or chocolate bar. Moved to the Midwest and realized no one knew what I was talking about. I find the term long John’s weird because they could be cream filled or not while I don’t think of a Bar as being cream filled. Maple bacon Bar for the win.

40. Worked in a donut shop in California. We called them bars. We did have people come in asking for long johns every once in a while.

41. In California it’s a “bar.” As in, “maple bar” or “old fashioned bar.”