# Donut Disagreements **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 28, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640 "2019-05-28T13:58:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/21 "2019-05-28T17:06:03Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > … rather have no doughnut that a KK. That’s how I feel about Dunkin’ Donuts. You might as well get doughnuts from the grocery store. Krispie Kreme I find delicious though. There are a lot of fancy doughnut places popping up around. But I think they overdo it. I don’t want a million different toppings, and breakfast cereal and bits of candy and broken candy bars, on my doughnut. Duck Donuts is great if you just get their plain doughnut. I don’t like their toppings, but the plain doughnut is heavenly. There was a place called the Fractured Prune that similarly had a divine fresh doughnut. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/22 "2019-05-28T17:19:25Z")
Horses for courses, but I find Krispy Kremes virtually inedible. _Too_ sweet, bizarrely. I mean I love sugar, but those things must be over the 50% mark. Back in the day I remember preferring Winchell’s of the big chains, but of course they are long gone so I have no idea if my memories would jibe with current reality. A local vegan doughnut shop is probably the only vegan food I regularly( very rarely, I don’t eat many doughnuts )get behind. A bakery nearby does nice custard and raspberry jam-filled brioche-style doughnuts. ETA: Okay, apparently Winchell’s is still around. I just thought they disappeared. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/23 "2019-05-28T17:27:32Z")
Dunkin Donuts = Blatz Beer. Stay with me here… when I was young(er), there were ordinary foods, and then a _Wow!New!_ version would come out. And it felt like a premium product. The drugstore soda fountain that served both flavors (vanilla and chocolate) was forgotten when Baskin-Robbins debuted. _31 flavors, wow!_ “Grab me a beer!”, one of my dad’s favorite requests, was supplanted by “I’ve been working hard, can you get me a Blatz? They’re in the back of the fridge.” And supermarket donuts were upstaged by Dunkin Donuts. But now that even better products are out there, often hand-crafted, the old chains that were the pinnacle aren’t that great. Chain ice creams pale when confronted with artisans hand-making intriguing flavors (mmm, Basil/Strawberry… one of a dozen creative combos from The Bent Spoon in Princeton). Donuts from a chain aren’t half as good as the small batches made by a local bakery (shout out to Bloom and Greenbush Bakeries in Madison, WI). And you could probably list a hundred micro-brews that are better than Blatz ever was. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/24 "2019-05-28T17:29:31Z")
I have never liked DD, since the 70s. Even the basic glazed tastes not right to me. I like the KK glaze, but the donuts are way to greasy for me. Local mom & pop stores are the best. Sadly, I can’t even eat those anymore - still too much grease for me and now they upset my stomach. Hell, nowadays, everything upsets my stomach. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/25 "2019-05-28T17:29:34Z")
There’s a DD on the street where I work, and sometimes the store springs for donuts and coffee. That’s the only time I have them. There was also a DD down the street from the homeless shelter I lived in for a while. They would give us a discount if we showed our shelter cards. I use to get coffee and iced tea there, and they did a good business. They also treated us homeless folk respectfully, and I made a point of thanking the employees and telling the owner so before I left the shelter. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/26 "2019-05-28T17:49:34Z")
Full disclosure: I never met a doughnut I didn’t like. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/27 "2019-05-28T17:51:09Z")
There is a [donut shop](http://thedonutking.com/) in my hometown. Teeny little shop, open 24 hours a day. So much better than DD. I have been there multiple times at different times of the day and there is always a line out the door. Instead of a cake, my son and DIL had donuts from this shop at their wedding. Huge hit. I got a maple bacon donut for my dad, took it to him at the table, turned around to get my lemon-filled donut…and the maple bacon donut tray was completely empty. It happened in seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/28 "2019-05-28T18:04:42Z")
Dunkin is fine, but there are definitely better donuts out there. As an aside, I was in Vancouver last summer and tried Tim Horton’s for the first time. They were _exactly the same_ as Dunkin Donuts; so much so that I was absolutely convinced the two chains must have the same ownership. Turns out they don’t, but I guess TH is the DD of Canada. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/29 "2019-05-28T18:22:30Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I guess TH is the DD of Canada. Oh, no!.. Trying real poutine and Tim Horton’s were two of the reasons I’ve always given when I say I’m thinking of moving _Up Nort’ Dere, Eh?_ ---
**Author:** ![amaguri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@amaguri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amaguri)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/30 "2019-05-28T18:23:27Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Dunkin is fine, but there are definitely better donuts out there. > > As an aside, I was in Vancouver last summer and tried Tim Horton’s for the first time. They were _exactly the same_ as Dunkin Donuts; so much so that I was absolutely convinced the two chains must have the same ownership. Turns out they don’t, but I guess TH is the DD of Canada. I used to travel to upstate NY for work a few times a year and there was odd reverence for Tim Hortons. When I finally tried it, it certainly wasn’t any better quality than DD. And the coffee was significantly worse. So, I don’t quite get it either. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/31 "2019-05-28T18:57:10Z")
I don’t particularly like donuts in general, but a fresh off-the-line Krispy Kreme was an occasional indulgence of mine. There used to be one by my house (until pretty much all of them closed down in the mid-00s, though a few have rentered the market recently) and I would pop in just fir a coffee, and they would always offer a free donut off the line. I pretty much never wanted a donut, but one hot donut was exactly right to go with a black coffee, calories be damned. I always felt a little bad, as I never needed to order more, but, hey, all I would have bought is a single donut, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/32 "2019-05-28T19:16:12Z")
Dunkin’s donuts are lousy. Their coffee and breakfast sandwiches are occasionally palatable. Their hash brown discs are an affront to taste. Their best menu item, in my opinion, is their basic bagels. Not great, but better than most not great bagels. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/33 "2019-05-28T19:23:04Z")
We didn’t have a DD for a long time, so when a KK opened it was exciting. There were lines at their drive through windows. But I’ve decided that they make me sick, and we’ve pretty much abandoned them. A DD has opened in walking distance, and they are a lot better, but I’ll go with the indy donut shop first. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/34 "2019-05-28T19:28:22Z")
> [@CaptainSnazzy7402](#): > > I’m not too fond of Dunkin Donuts. I LOVE Krispy but for some reason, I just can’t get behind “America’s” donut shop. Am I alone in this regard? Dunkin cake donuts are Ok, and not bad a day old. Krispy glazed are heavenly- _when still warm-_ but all KK donuts are sad lumps of fat when a day old. Around here most are indies run by Koreans by a formula, and they are good but not great. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/35 "2019-05-28T19:41:17Z")
> [@Motorgirl](#): > > This. Their donuts have been subpar ever since they switched to making them centrally and shipping them out. They’re definitely no longer worth the calories. I will admit to eating a couple of cake donuts a year though. Especially when the pumpkin ones first appear in the fall. > > Krispy Kreme are very tasty when fresh and still warm but I feel like they lose their deliciousness rapidly as they cool. When KK first came to SoCal, people would occasionally buy some and bring them in to work. There were none near me. I didn’t like them. Maybe they’re o.k. minutes after being fried, but they had a gross raw batter taste and texture, and the glaze was nauseatingly sweet. Yuck. Growing up Big Donut is where we always went. Their orange glaze had orange peel in it, the chocolate tasted like chocolate, the strawberry ones had bits of berry in the glaze. The only Big Donut store still standing is now Randy’s Donuts and aren’t too bad. Winchell’s donuts all taste alike – they’re just brown ones, orange ones and pink ones. I don’t remember Dunkin’ Donuts around when I was growing up, and I don’t know where any are now. I heard so much about their coffee that I bought a pound in the market. It must be different in the shops, because it was AWful. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/36 "2019-05-28T19:48:48Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > … > Growing up Big Donut is where we always went. Their orange glaze had orange peel in it, the chocolate tasted like chocolate, the strawberry ones had bits of berry in the glaze. The only Big Donut store still standing is now Randy’s Donuts and aren’t too bad. Winchell’s donuts all taste alike – they’re just brown ones, orange ones and pink ones. > > I don’t remember Dunkin’ Donuts around when I was growing up, and I don’t know where any are now. I heard so much about their coffee that I bought a pound in the market. It must be different in the shops, because it was AWful. Big Donut is great, but there aint too many. DD was boycotting CA for like a decade, they just re-entered the CA market. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/37 "2019-05-28T19:55:36Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > However, they kept cutting back on their donuts to sell other pastries. Most used to have three panels of shelving for donuts; now they only use one. They keep cutting back on varieties: I haven’t seen my favorite, cherry cake, in over a decade. I could eat an entire box full of the Winchell’s cherry cake donuts. I miss them. ☹ KK and DD donuts are horrible. I’d rather go donutless than eat what they offer. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/38 "2019-05-28T20:36:39Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > _\_ I’m in the minority that would rather have no doughnut that a KK. To me they seem over glazed and soggy. I’m in the same club - I honestly don’t understand the orgasmic love of KK. There’s a small local grocery chain in my county that sells some amazing donuts. I don’t know if they make them in the store or bring them in, but they are, as I said, amazing! Or they were the last time I had one. I’ve tried to cut sweets out of my diet in the last year or so. Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/39 "2019-05-28T21:30:11Z")
I find KK to be just a grease and sugar delivery systems. No good flavors. (And if your defenders have to say something like “But you never had it hot off the line.” That’s _not_ a plus. A good donut tastes great warm or cold.) DD is just remarkably stale, for me. How do they manage that? When the local Kroger can beat one of your main lines of business, You’re Doing It Wrong. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640/40 "2019-05-28T22:03:34Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I’m in the same club - I honestly don’t understand the orgasmic love of KK. > …t. Ok, try this. Hit a KK when the “Hot donut” light is on, get a glazed right as they come off the rollers. Heavenly. trust me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donut-disagreements/834640.md?page=3)