I like their Amaretto Boats, and that fruit pizza type thing they make with strawberries and kiwis.

We are the precious chosen few, let all the rest be damned. There's only room for one or two, we can't have Heaven crammed!

I love goodies, but after reading up all about trans fats, I'm going cold turkey on anything that MIGHT have trans fats.

Wagners does say they can whip you up a batch of trans fat free chocolate chip cookies if you call in advance and ask for them, so that's a start.

I've been getting my baked goods lately at the Blue Lotus, a little organic breakfast and lunch cafe downtown with home baked goodies, no trans fats.

No donuts I'm afraid (at least not that I've seen) but a nice and everchanging variety of yummy bakery stuff to make you drool. And no, I don't work there!

They're downtown on the same side of the street as the YMCA and Rainey Day records, next to the old funeral home that was converted to a bhuddist temple. Sorry, I don't know the address.

At any rate, trans fats are SCARY! From what I've read just a little bit way increases your risk of heart disease. I feel jipped because I've been eating them for years in cookies, donuts etc, and didn't realize what a killer they are. Oh well...

Here's the scoop on trans fats:

http://www.bantransfats.com/abouttransfat.html

From the description I don't even think you could call them food, they're an industrially chemically altered substance mascarading as food...

Maybe Otto's can roll a blueberry bagel in some powdered sugar. Wait! Cookies! I can still get my sugar fix and Otto's/San Francisco Street makes the best gingerbread people.

We are the precious chosen few, let all the rest be damned. There's only room for one or two, we can't have Heaven crammed!

with the whole police thing too.

Would this not explain why we have such grumpy cops?

We lived in Lakewood for a year & a half before we moved to Oly, and the only thing I really miss is The Donut Shop near the Lakewood Mall. At my old job, I always got to have a pink frosted donut on my birthday. mmmm, donuts....

The Bread Peddler has amazing pastry. And so does Wagner's. Yet in a different way. Wagner's has more amazing sweet things with marzipan and chocolate and creamy whipped cream-like stuff arranged in different, surprising ways. It's so worth the walk up the hill. The Bread Peddler has unexpected combinations of things that were once plants that we in the New World would never dream of putting together: Plum and turnip tarts, that kind of thing. Chocolate corks. Coy meringues. Croissants, so many different kinds, almond, onion, apple, cheese, that make you not care how much you weigh. I guess donuts are more affordable, but pastry is so unpredictable! There's always something new, how can an adventurous person reasonably say no, how can one limit oneself, and refuse to show respect to the pastry chef's labors by sampling every new pastry that appears in the glass case? I didn't realize it until Merwyn brought this up, but my daughter and I have grown out of our desperate wintry donut fixes to an expensive but immensely gratifying pastry dependency, and I never want to go back.