Quotes

GONVILLE AND CAIUS
‘Hot spicy apply juicy apple juice yum’ ’02
‘When a daddy doughnut and a mummy doughnut love each other very much…’ ’04
‘How beautiful they are!’ ’06
‘Abooba ha-doughnuts!’ ’08
‘Worth every bite’ 2010
‘I like it when they are not perfectly circular. It makes them feel real.’ 2012

KEBLE
‘Get some so I can eat them vicariously’
‘And my mother isn’t even here to stop me.’

TRINITY, CAMBRIDGE
‘I couldn’t find Yubba Yubba anywhere. Disaster! Six chocolate, please.’
‘Delumptious’

ST JOHN’S, CAMBRIDGE
‘YubbaYubba are the best doughnuts I’ve ever eaten’
‘Sing to me of doughnuts, for I am sick of love.’
‘I want to mate with you’

DOWNING
‘They’re so nice and squishy. Yum.’

ST CATHERINE’S
‘So good for taking the weight off…’

WOLFSON, CAMBRIDGE
‘It’s like the fluffy clouds of heaven’

DARWIN
‘I want a bag of those fluffy things’
‘The best stall here’

QUEEN’S, OXFORD
‘It’s my most popular thing tonight’
‘They look like jellyfish’

CHRIST CHURCH
“Oh my gosh, I see what the hubbub is about”

HOMERTON
‘Best doughnuts of my life’

CORPUS CHRISTI, CAMBRIDGE
‘It’s lovely. It’s calling to me, that one.’

ST HILDA’S
‘I’m a Canadian, and they eat the highest quota of doughnuts in the world. These are top.’

EXETER
‘That one’s got nipples’
‘It’s Yubba again. Thank goodness’
“This is my fourth year. I’m going to really miss ‘Yubba’”

NEW COLLEGE
‘They’re not like that spongy stuff you get in supermarkets.’
‘Top food of the ball for me’

MAGDALENE
‘Really sorry – may I have two more for my mother?’
‘These are exceptionally good’

SOMERVILLE
‘Wonderful. Best I’ve ever tasted. And so nice and hot.’

LINCOLN
‘I need to heal my soul with a doughnut’

OXFORD UNION
‘Even though I feel sick, I want to eat one. They smell so good’

ST HUGH’S
‘I don’t really like donuts, but these are delicious’
‘These Yubbas are nice and big’

BALLIOL
‘OOOh. Upper class doughnuts’ (!!! Ed.)
‘I’ll have six. I might be dead next week’

ROBINSON
‘This is the best food at the whole ball’
‘I want a doughnut not a dance’
‘I’ve been looking forward to this all year’

JESUS, CAMBRIDGE
‘I’m not hungry – but these are so good… going to explode…’ (2012)
‘Oh God. Does this mean I’m going to have an orgasm in my mouth?’ (Bites doughnut) ‘OOooh. Nearly.’

GIRTON
‘Yubba has been the life-blood of the Ball’

WORCESTER
“You guys are the secular Angels of the Ball”

CORPUS CHRISTI, OXFORD
‘Utterly refreshing, and it looks so pretty’ (melon table)
‘I need a cinanananamon one’

EMMANUEL
“Of all the stands, ‘Yubba’ is the Holy Grail”

LADY MARGARET HALL
‘Hot and beautiful; four please.’
‘My best food memory from Keble Ball last year’

CLARE
‘Yubba, the highlight of my year’
‘When I grow up, I’m going to marry a doughnut.’

NEWNHAM
‘It’s (doughnut) like music, but more practical and more enjoyable’

QUEENS’, CAMBRIDGE
‘Something awful has happened. One of my party is without doughnuts.’
‘I didn’t realise they were such a delicacy.’

KING’S
‘The word on the street is Yubba Yubba.’

TRINITY, OXFORD
‘This is the reason I pay all that money for balls’

CHRIST’S
‘Excellent as always’

CHURCHILL
‘Such a delicious start to the ball’
‘Have you got any little spoonikins?’

PEMBROKE
‘I’m excited each year to eat your doughnuts.’
‘These are the bestest doughnuts I’ve ever eaten’

SELWYN SNOW BALL
‘These doughnuts are an integral part of the ball.’

TRINITY HALL
‘Oh Yubba, you bring so much pleasure to a young lady with just a bag of flour and some eggs.’
‘Yubba we love you’

PETERHOUSE
‘The best way to start a ball’
‘We’ve had high moments, and chill-out moments, and now it’s a Yubba moment’

BRASENOSE
‘The most delicious thing at the ball’
‘I remember these from two years ago. Awesome.’

ORIEL
‘This is the best thing I’ve ever eaten’

WADHAM
‘These are amazing, more than incredible, more than doughnuts’