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Demon: "So you like donuts do you!?"
Homer: "Uhuh."
Demon: "Well then, have ALL the donuts in the world! Hahaha!"

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LPCTech said:
Krispy Kreme is inflated sugar balloons that melt into sugar syrup the moment they hit your mouth
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I love donuts. But that ^ describes why I don't like KK. I don't like the melting. Luckily we have plenty of local joints that make donuts with a little substance to them.
 
KK opened franchises in my state about a decade ago. When they opened they caused immense traffic jams on the four lane highway they were on-for the first month or so. Within a year they were closed up and gone.

I bought there three times, twice getting glazed right off the line. Each time they were total crap with a half inch of sugar glaze.

KK may be better than DD, I won't debate that because I won't buy at either. They are overpriced abominations. Shop at your local bakery-these chains are driving all the good donut places out of business.

PS-here in New England we do spell them donut.
 
Thump553 said:
KK opened franchises in my state about a decade ago. When they opened they caused immense traffic jams on the four lane highway they were on-for the first month or so. Within a year they were closed up and gone.

I bought there three times, twice getting glazed right off the line. Each time they were total crap with a half inch of sugar glaze.

KK may be better than DD, I won't debate that because I won't buy at either. They are overpriced abominations. Shop at your local bakery-these chains are driving all the good donut places out of business.

PS-here in New England we do spell them donut.
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I just read the other day that KK is opening 15(?) locations in New England. I guess they didn't learn the first time around. Not sure if any are going to be in the great state of Connecticut.

Edit: Looked it up and it is 7 locations in Maine and NH only.
 
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I hate when people at work bring in KK donuts. I get all excited, get to their office. See KK boxes, turn around in disgust. Even free they are nasty, and everything tastes better when free lol
 
I saw some kind of canoli in the donut section at a grocery story bakery yesterday and it looked amazing, I have never tried one though
 
soulcougher73 said:
I hate when people at work bring in KK donuts. I get all excited, get to their office. See KK boxes, turn around in disgust. Even free they are nasty, and everything tastes better when free lol
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I'm in the same boat, there is a chain here called Shipley's that has some pretty good donuts as well as a few bakeries that make some awesome ones as well. The only reason we seem to have people getting Krispy Kreme's is the store is about 2 minutes from the office.
 
soulcougher73 said:
I hate when people at work bring in KK donuts. I get all excited, get to their office. See KK boxes, turn around in disgust. Even free they are nasty, and everything tastes better when free lol
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Okay, okay, let's all settle down a bit. There no reason to post insanity like "I wouldn't eat a free Krispy Kreme donut." Christ...
 
Over the years, snacks and drinks taste like they're getting sweeter and sweeter. I blame this on Cinnabon. Don't get me wrong, I love sweets, but if it's too sweet, I can't taste anything else :-(
 
Krispy Kreme haters are all luddites and/or northeastern neanderthals, raised under the thrall of the far lesser Dunkin "Donuts."

It doesn't help that most think of KK as some sort of "hipster fad." It is, in fact, a 60+ year-old entity that only recently decided to expand its market (quite stupidly) and try to sell itself as some quirky version of a Donut-based Starbucks (even fucking dumber) by re-branding everything to look this way.
 
FeuerFrei approves of Krispy Kreme.

iroast said:
Over the years, snacks and drinks taste like they're getting sweeter and sweeter. I blame this on Cinnabon. Don't get me wrong, I love sweets, but if it's too sweet, I can't taste anything else :-(
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Artificial sweeteners can be cloyingly sweet (e.g. sucralose). Everybody knows this. :sneaky:
 
iroast said:
Over the years, snacks and drinks taste like they're getting sweeter and sweeter. I blame this on Cinnabon. Don't get me wrong, I love sweets, but if it's too sweet, I can't taste anything else :-(
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I've concluded (by making rolls with more) that Cinnabon's "secret" is just using 4x the cinnamon sugar mixture as other places. There is more sugar, but there is also more cinnamon.

Baked goods might be sweeter, but why is it so many old people eat rock candy...,basically chunks of sugar that have been sold forever.
 
zinfamous said:
Krispy Kreme haters are all luddites and/or northeastern neanderthals, raised under the thrall of the far lesser Dunkin "Donuts."

It doesn't help that most think of KK as some sort of "hipster fad." It is, in fact, a 60+ year-old entity that only recently decided to expand its market (quite stupidly) and try to sell itself as some quirky version of a Donut-based Starbucks (even fucking dumber) by re-branding everything to look this way.
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The consensus ITT is that local places can be far far far superior to either one. I prefer DD only slightly because their coffee is better than KK's (but still overrated). We have a local, asian owned donut shop that's close to work with AMAZING cake donuts that kick the living shit out of anything made by DD. Crispy on outside, soft on the inside, omg.

Also, why are asians usually the owners of the random, good donut shops?
 
Rollen Donuts in Merced, California. Bar none the best donuts I've ever had anywhere. Their maple bars are perfect - huge "couch cushion" things that are slightly crunchy outside and tender inside with a house made icing (none of that donut supply company runny stuff the Cambodian donut shops use). I sometimes regret moving away from there just because of that donut shop. Screw Krispy Kreme. Can't beat a local place that's been in business 60 years with a grouchy old owner running the show.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/rollen-donuts-merced
 
preslove said:
The consensus ITT is that local places can be far far far superior to either one. I prefer DD only slightly because their coffee is better than KK's (but still overrated). We have a local, asian owned donut shop that's close to work with AMAZING cake donuts that kick the living shit out of anything made by DD. Crispy on outside, soft on the inside, omg.

Also, why are asians usually the owners of the random, good donut shops?
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I've wondered that too, and it's only something that I became aware of when I moved out west. I mean, I was 30 before I ever saw an asian donut shop, and they were all over the place. All independent, but all looked the same, with nearly the exact same name/design. I assume they are are some type of front.

I also assume that any type of small local donut shop is going to make better donuts...but they are donuts. They are not fancy, they aren't really sacred. They are meant to be eaten at 3 am after drunk/stoned/whatever and you really have no idea how you got to the donut shop at 3am. In this state, only KK is tolerable, because they are hot, pillowy sugar bombs. Absolutely perfect for that state of mind. Donuts are also great early int he morning, when sober, with coffee or whatever, but I would never think of them as...real food. If they are sacred in any way, it is because they are trash food. Treating them as anything more than trash--like those hipster donuts up there--is the only real travesty.
 
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