The Donutporium is a local donut shop located in Bedrock and a one-time location of the comic story, "Donutaholic", featured in the fifth issue of The Flintstones by Archie Comics.
Background[]
Physical Description[]
It is a brown, organic architectural donut-shaped building with two triangular windows, a red arched double stone door with glass panels and hinges, a stone chimney with a coffee cup-shaped chimney stack, and an orange sign that says, "Donutporium". During the grand opening of the place, it had a yellow "Grand Opening!" banner on top of the roof and a banner that said, "250 Different Varieties!!".
On the inside of the building, it has a pink cash counter with Ronald McDonut in a poster on the wall that says, "More Sugar!!!", restaurant booth-styled teal stone seats, and pink stone tables with one brown wooden leg and display racks that contains labels of various varieties.
Menu[]
Foods featured in the donut shop were featured such as coffee, donut puree, and donuts with 250 different variety flavors (for example, including: Bavarian Cream, Super Chocolate, Raspberry Twirls with Gumdrops, Mocha Mint Exploding Cherry Tarts, Rocky Road Land Mines, Cherry Pinwheel Double Coconut Ginger Power Pack, etc.).
Role in the comic story[]
The Donutporium first appeared at night with Fred, eating a donut with a whole lot of them, surrounded by police officers before the sundial turned back to where the story took place.
After Fred drove off with his Flintmobile before going to a "shoulder specialist" with Barney, they went to the grand opening of the Donutporium and he ordered a lot of donuts with a sugar-free cup of coffee. Since he ate them all, his stomach, shaped like a giant bowling ball, expanded for the first time. And after that, he lost his balance and crashed on the donut shop's floor which got a hole in it.
The Donutporium finally appeared that night as it began baking for the next morning like a missile heading for a target and the aroma went into the Flintstone home's chimney. When Fred sniffed it with his nose, he got out of the bed and it lured him away into the donut shop, but he knocked and fell down on the ground. After being woken up from the aroma that followed him, he saw the closed sign and thought he could wait the next morning for more donuts.
Impatient, Fred grabbed a huge boulder, threw it, and destroyed the door, setting off the alarm, and robbed the donuts. After he stuffed them up in a big sack, the police officers arrived and attempted to arrest him for the donut robbery and he went into an alley, climbed up a ladder, and was surrounded by their flashlights. Since he finished all of the donuts, his stomach expanded for the second and last time and he fell off and crashed into the pavement which got a hole on it again since it happened the last time and after that, he was seriously injured and got sent to the Bedrock Hospital.
Appearance[]
- "Donutaholic" (only comic book appearance)
Gallery[]
Notes/Trivia[]
- The location's name is a portmanteau of "donut" and "emporium".