這到底是美味佳餚 還是黑暗料理
What do you get if you cross a waffle with a doughnut? It's no joke
如果你將華夫餅乾與甜甜圈混合會得到什麼？這不是開玩笑。NOT all marriages are happy, but Alex Hernandez thinks that the union of a waffle and a doughnut will be.
並不是所有的婚姻都是幸福的，但是亞歷克斯·赫爾南德斯認爲華夫餅和甜甜圈的組合會很幸福。The owner of Waffles Cafe in Chicago starting selling what he calls wonuts in April.
芝加哥的華夫咖啡館店主於四月開始售賣他叫做wonuts的甜品。
They are deep-fried waffles, topped with icing and multicoloured sprinkles.
它們是油炸的華夫餅，表面加上糖衣和五顏六色的巧克力屑。
Daily sales went from 24 to 600 within two days.
日銷售量在兩天之內從24猛增至600。Buzzfeed, a website, called the new snack proof that a benevolent Food God exists.
網站Buzzfeed把這種新型小甜品叫做仁慈食神存在的證據。Hybrid dishes are fashionable.
混合菜餚很流行。The wonut follows the cronut, a croissant-donut combination that was invented in New York last year and is now being fried and munched in Taiwan, South Korea, Brazil, Britain
Wonut是在牛角甜甜圈—紐約於去年發明的一款牛角麪包與甜甜圈的搭配組合之後推出的一款新甜品，如今已風靡臺灣、南韓、巴西和英國，and even France, where you'd think diners would be fussier.
甚至連對飲食很挑剔的法國都鍾情於它。Many countries indulge in culinary mixing, but Americans, who love both novelty and food, are especially keen on it.
許多國家都喜歡混合烹飪，而美國人這種既喜歡新奇又喜歡食物的人對此尤其鍾愛。Burger King's Croissan'Wich is a croissant-sandwich mix.
漢堡王的Croissan'Wich是羊角麪包和三明治的混合。Taco Bell's quesarito is a beef burrito wrapped in a quesadilla.
塔可鐘的quesarito是外面裹有油炸玉米粉餅的牛肉捲餅。J&D's Foods produces Baconnaise, bacon-flavoured mayonnaise that is, oddly, vegetarian and kosher-certified.
J&D的食品產業生產Baconnaise—培根風味的蛋黃醬，但有趣的是，猶太教和素食主義者都適用。Carl's Jr is testing a bisnut, a cross between a biscuit and a doughnut. Not everyone is impressed.
卡樂星正在測試一款bisnut—小餅乾和甜甜圈的組合。Leave it to fast food to think of new and exciting ways to make you have to buy two seats on an airplane.
並不是每個人都會被打動。在快餐上使用這個點子，想出新的有趣的方法來讓你不得不在一架飛機上買兩個位子。A breakfast-dessert hybrid.
早餐混合甜點。You're barely awake and you're already getting all your calories for the day, grumbles Jeff Sorensen of Uproxx, an online magazine.
你還在打着瞌睡，就已經攝入了一天所需的卡路里， 一家在線雜誌Uproxx的傑夫·索倫森抱怨說。Such innovation has a long history.
這種創新歷史悠久。Blacks who migrated north after the Civil War served African-spiced fried chicken with European waffles.
內戰之後遷移到北方的黑人把歐洲華夫餅和非洲五香炸雞混合在了一起。In the 1910s, Americans drenched German frankfurters with Mexican chili to make chili dogs.
在20世紀10年代，美國人把德國法蘭克福香腸浸透了墨西哥紅辣椒，做成了辣椒熱狗。More recently, New Yorkers drew on the collective genius of generations of Jewish and Italian cooks to produce: the pizza bagel.
最近，紐約人民利用世代傳下來的猶太和意大利的烹飪智慧製造出了：披薩百吉餅。Because America is a nation of immigrants, it has many traditions to mine.
因爲美國是一個移民國家，因此它擁有許多個人習俗。But because many cooks try to please everyone, ethnic recipes have often been tweaked so as not to offend unfamiliar palates.
但是因爲大部分食物都是要取悅所有人，民族食譜經常會被改造以滿足不同的人的口味。You take something that's different, and you make it similar, says Roger Horowitz of the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware.
你拿來與不同的東西，然後把它變成你熟悉的東西，特拉華州海格利博物館和威明頓圖書館的羅格·霍洛威茨說。That has often involved adding sugar and fat, which everyone likes.
這通常包括加入糖和油脂，這是大部分人都喜愛的。The wonut illustrates another grand old American tradition, too:
Wonut也說明了另一種極爲重要的美國古老習俗：the layering of mountains of different types of food in a single dish, which goes back at least to the invention of the ice-cream sundae 120 years ago.
在一道菜中包含了層層疊疊的不同食物，這至少可以追溯到120年前聖代冰淇淋的發明。Good ideas spread fast, so hybrid hits are soon copied.
好點子傳播的很快，因此混合食品的創意很快就有人山寨了。Crumbs Bake Shop, an ailing and pricey New York-based chain of cupcake shops, was one of several to introduce variations of the cronut.
Crumbs Bake Shop是一家總部在紐約的杯形蛋糕連鎖店，價格昂貴而且正面臨着困難。Alas its crumbnut failed to save the business, and Crumbs closed its doors on July 7th.
它是引入多品種牛角甜甜圈的幾家店之一，但可悲的是它的crumbnut未能挽回日漸下滑的生意，並於7月7日關門了。As for Mr Hernandez, he is looking to open wonut shops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Phoenix.
對於赫爾南德斯來說，他準備在芝加哥、洛杉磯和鳳凰城開wonut商店。But he knows that the wonut will not be novel for long, so he is already working on his next creation:
但是他知道wonut不會新奇很長時間，因此他正在致力於下一個創新：a waffle pizza, which perhaps he should call the piffle.
華夫餅披薩，他可能會把這種食品叫做priffle。
