The Long John is a bar-shaped, filled doughnut

Doughnut

A doughnut or donut is a fried dough food and is popular in many countries and prepared in various forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised specialty outlets...

 often embellished with glaze or icing. In some parts of the United States, Long Johns are marketed as éclairs; the two pastries look similar but are created with different types of dough and fillings.

Other names

In the Pacific Northwest, a Long John topped with maple-flavored

Maple syrup

Maple syrup is a syrup usually made from the xylem sap of sugar maple, red maple, or black maple trees, although it can also be made from other maple species such as the bigleaf maple. In cold climates, these trees store starch in their trunks and roots before the winter; the starch is then...

 icing is colloquially

Colloquialism

A colloquialism is a word or phrase that is common in everyday, unconstrained conversation rather than in formal speech, academic writing, or paralinguistics. Dictionaries often display colloquial words and phrases with the abbreviation colloq. as an identifier...

 known as a Maple bar

Maple bar

A maple bar is a rectangular pastry topped with a maple glaze. They can be filled with custard, or cream, or left unfilled.Maple bars are also known as a maple-glazed Long John....

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