History Main / DonutMessWithACop

* One [[GameMod custom]] [[https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/11509-peg-krispy-kremes-and-police-station/ police station]] for [[VideoGame/SimCity Simcity 4]] is just a Krispy Kreme coded to act as a small police station.

* ''Film/TheCrow'':

* In the music video for Music/TheSmashingPumpkins' "1979", the teens messing around in the convenience store stop when two cops walk in. They buy some donuts, and leave, after which the real mischief begins.

* House of Pain's "Jump Around" features the line "Feel it, funk it / Amps in the trunk/ And I got more rhymes than there's cops that are dunkin..." It's hard to imagine it's in reference to anything else.

** In urban Britain, lacking widely available doughnut shops[[note]]there's a handful of Krispy Kreme franchises, but that's about it[[/note]], the police generally make do with kebabs or other greasy fried food from late-night takeaways. In ''rural'' Britain they have to make do with a flask of tea and a packet of sandwiches from home because nowhere's open past 11PM.

** Meanwhile, Filipino cops prefer hanging out at ''panciterias'' (Chinese-style noodle houses).
** In Sweden, police are stereotyped as obsessed with the local ''gatukök'' (literally "street kitchen", think somewhere between a hot-dog stand and a fast food restaurant), and many of these will have a "police-meal" somewhere, though what that meal actually is varies according to region and the culinary preferences of local law enforcement.
** In Israel, the police are stereotyped as being crazy over ''shawarma'', a dish consisting of roast meat cut into slices and stacked in a cone-like shape.

* Tim Horton's, far and away the largest coffee, baked goods and fast food chain in Canada, was founded by the hockey player Tim Horton, but his first investor and franchisee was Ron Joyce, a [[UsefulNotes/TheMounties police constable]] who frequented Horton's shop on his beat. After Horton's death, Joyce took over the chain and expanded it into the empire it is today. Instead of paying for security, Tim Horton's offers free menu items to members of Law Enforcement, encouraging police to frequent timmies.

* During the music video for "Sabotage" by The Music/BeastieBoys, a scene during the middle break shows the cops stopping for donuts.

* Another variation comes in the ''Literature/{{Rebus}}'' novels, in which it is stated several times that the uniform cops are particularly fond of Greggs, a RealLife British cafe chain which does sell doughnuts, although the cops prefer the savoury products like sausage rolls and steak bakes. At one point, an arrest is carried out in a Greggs when an officer recognised a wanted suspect while queuing for a steak bake.

* In the trailer for the cancelled ''WesternAnimation/SlyCooper'' film, the Cooper Gang try to steal donuts when Murray begs for some. But when the donut store closes...Sly steals donuts from cops, causing them to get chased. Bentley yells "Why can't we just order pizza like normal people?"

* The "Police Provisions" case in ''Another Case Solved'' involves locating a particular donut shop for a cop with a sweet tooth.

* In ''Arcane Arts Academy'' Erika is brought to her grandmother by the police.

* The police station background art in ''Cate West: The Vanishing Files'' includes a box labeled "DONUTS" sitting on a desk.

** ''{{VideoGame/Pharaoh}}'': Police constables tend to have punny names, including Merydonut.
* When Faultine (formery known as ThatOneLevel) of the ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' was [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap revamped to great effect]], a donut shop was built with several police cars parked nearby (and a giant pink donut on top). Some gang members like the idea:

* In the solitaire portion of ''[[VideoGame/GOTeamInvestigates GO Team Investigates]]'', a donut card frees all cards blocked by police lines.

* One of the random remarks made by a cop in the Last Chance Diner in ''Mean Mother Trucker'':

* In ''Puzzle Adventure'' distracting the police outside a traveling freakshow involves turning on a donut vending machine.
* One of the dioramas in ''Puzzrama'' includes two cops eating donuts from a box placed on the hood of their car.

* ''Steve the Sheriff 2: The Case of the Missing Thing'' has a series of "fun facts" which are revealed by finding the cigar hidden in each location. Fun Fact #19 is that a particular convenience store sells Steve's favorite "cop car snacks:" pies that fit in your pocket and a "copper's dozen" of donuts (which happens to be thirty-six).

* In ''Who Shot Gum E. Bear?'' Officer Donut is literally a giant donut, which is actually fairly unremarkable considering that the victim is a gummy bear and the private eye protagonist is a piece of bubblegum.
* In Chapter One of ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings'' talking to one of the guards outside the [[PrisonShip prison barge,]] will have him say: "I could for a doughnut right now."

** They also make ones that say "Police Headquarters" in the orange-and-pink Dunkin' Donuts logo font. All of which are ''excellent'' ways to ensure you'll never get let off with a warning.

** In the expansion ''[[VideoGame/HalfLifeBlueShift Blue Shift]]'' you play as a security guard; not quite a police officer, but close enough. At the beginning of the game, where you can wander around some areas of the complex for a bit before all hell breaks loose, one of the scientist [=NPCs=] might say "Why are you standing around? Shouldn't you be guarding some coffee and doughnuts right about now?"

In fiction, it's much more probable that you'll see a cop eating a donut than anyone else, except for [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]]. The cop guarding your jail cell is often seen dunking their donut with pink frosting or similar in their cup of coffee. The cop in the stakeout may have a half-empty box of donuts in their car. When taking a break from driving, they commonly hang out at the donut shop.

In more [[PlayedForLaughs humorous]] displays, the cop might react to a donut as Franchise/ScoobyDoo would to a scooby snack. Donuts may be the defining motivation for them to have joined the force. In fact, "Officer Donut" is a casual insult for a cop. A police character might be so obsessed that they could be [[FoodAsBribe bribed to do anything for donuts]].

As donuts are fattening sweets, the cop munching them is commonly portrayed as a fat, lazy, mustachioed ObstructiveBureaucrat. Strangely, they never get glaze or frosting in their mustache.

As for {{Dirty Cop}}s, just remember that EvilTastesGood -- as do donuts. And {{Rabid Cop}}s might scarf them down with excessive zeal and no restraint, the same way they do their job. But if this trope brought into positive portrayals, especially as {{Cowboy Cop}}s, a cop who munches donuts or other desserts voraciously can be sometimes portrayed as a GeniusSweetTooth. If the cop is an anthropomorphic animal, they may be portrayed as a pig, since this works well as a reference to both [[GluttonousPig pigs' reputation as animals that eat a lot]] and a VisualPun of [[PolicePig "pig" as derogatory slang for the police]].

** ''[[VideoGame/HitmanAbsolution Absolution]]'' plays it straight by having one of the ways the player can make a cop disguise more convincing to the [=NPCs=] is to eat donuts out of a box left laying around. The scene is spoofed by Creator/HarryPartridge in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfYRfpaBwnc this animation]] where our MasterOfDisguise is not the cop, but one of the donuts!
* While ''VideoGame/JonathanKaneTheProtector'' doesn't have any cop characters, a guard mistook the titular hero as a policeman and asks what took him so long - is there a donut sale nearby?