I don’t notice a difference in my dialect. That potato chip is crisp. That potato chip is crispy. Both mean exactly the same to me. You can describe weather as “crisp,” but not “crispy,” though.
FWIW, I don’t make that big a distinction between “crispy” and “crisp” either. I just know I wouldn’t describe my ideal donuts using either term.
pulykamell’s (and your) mileage may vary.
Woah! So many responses! Thanks for the typo fix btw.
Anywho, all I wanted to say was I’ve never had Tim Hortons but the general consensus does not seem to be too favorable.
Thanks for all of the local donuts shops mentioned in this thread. I will personally make a trip to visit all of them eventually once I’m out of college.
Nonetheless, thanks for the many responses and have a great day everyone.
Here’s the NYTImes with a recipe describing donuts as: “Homemade doughnuts are a bit of a project, but they’re less work than you might think, and the result is a truly great, hot, crisp doughnut.”
And Here is a recipe for donuts, where one commenter says “I can understand why so many people love this recipe. The doughnuts were light and fluffy on the inside and crispy on the outside.”
So it’s not just me. How else would you describe the textural contrast between a freshly deep-fried exterior with the light interior? I’m really having difficulty thinking of any word other than “crisp” or “crispy,” perhaps modified with “delicately” or “lightly” or “gently.”
Regardless, the name “Krispy Kreme” is evocative, alliterative, and memorable, so it works well. And I do think it describes their signature product well–perhaps more metaphorically to some people than others, but it gets the point across in an appealing manner.
I stand by my word choice. I’ve never had a donut that was “crispy”
As well you should; after all, the thread is “Donut Disagreements”! 
I do not like DD, as others noted they are just not fresh and there is always something off with the flavor. I also do not like KK. Occasionnally a glazed donut there fresh off the conveyer is okay but even then it’s nothing that makes me want another. Tim Horton’s is another that I do not understand the hype - even their coffee tastes bad to me.
I stick to local donut shops here when I need a dozen. We have a few DD, more KK, and a lot of Tim Hortons but I’d never go buy donuts for the family or for an event from them.
For the yeast type donuts, I prefer KK, However for sour-cream donuts, DD is the way to go.
I have to go to an independent donut shop if I want a good apple fritter. DD is the worst for apple fritters… all they do is inject apple goo into cinnamon type roll. It’s gross. A good apple fritter has chunks of apples fried into the dough. And as a side note to CalMeacham, apple fritters are best when they’re a little crunchy around the edges. mmm mmmm
Well, I never considered a “fritter” a donut. It’s sui generis.
Yes, altho I am not fond of apple fritters, when they are a bit crispy they arent bad.
As I mentioned in the post just before yours, this actually isn’t a defense.
Why not? A properly made French baguette is one of the best foods ever created if you have it 30 minutes after it comes out of the oven. 12 hours later, it’s as hard as a rock.
A bowl of Japanese ramen is wonderful right when it’s made. Two hours later, it’s inedible mush.
Have you ever tossed a cup of coffee or tea or cocoa or a bowl of soup that’s gone cold? Does everyone enjoy ice cream once it’s completely melted?
So there’s no reason why Krispie Kreme shouldn’t get credit for making a doughnut that is heavenly right out of the fryer, but perhaps not so much once it cools.
I’m not much of a doughnut guy. Aren’t most commercial doughnuts BAKED? Like those at DD?
Old-timey New England doughnuts were fried, as are the wonderful NE farm-stand cider doughnuts. And those DO have a crisp exterior.
I get the cream filled, so they’re always creamy. NEXT!
I always cackle when I drive by the bank (and now the Typhoid Kellys! :eek:). It’s made funnier by the Dunks right next to the Taco Bell. I do think the candy store moved down the Parkway a bit to the plaza that’s always a mess.
I haven’t gone to the new Kane’s by the Orange Dinosaur yet. The last time I went to the Saugus one, they were out of my favorite (peanut butter cup) and the guy tried to short change me. And the donuts I did get weren’t that good. It was later in the day, but I have gone after lunch before and have always been satisfied.
Back in the day there was a local chain called Mr Donut and my favorite was this freakish green thing on a stick called… donut on a stick. Those were my favorite.
I have only had KK once or twice and I was not impressed. It wasn’t gross, but it didn’t blow my mind. DD has gone down hill, but I do enjoy them from time to time if I get a good one in the flavor I’m craving. I’m not an early-morning person and I avoid those places before 10 because coffee-zombies terrify me. So by the time I get there the selection is usually not so good.
And the munchkins are always greasy to the touch now and really yucky.
I can have like 3 donuts a year and be satisfied though. I have a sweet tooth, but donuts are one of the things I really like that I somehow manage to keep just as a sometimes food.
The best donuts I’ve had lately were just a random bag of apple cider donuts I got from a farm in NH after doing a corn maze. They were both salty and sweet and soft and cakey.
DD’s are fried. See this Youtube video. Don’t know if that applies to all of them or not, but the ones my kids usually get definitely have a fried look to them. (Some are yeast donuts, and some are cake donuts, but the kids always get the yeast kind.) Now, while they are fried like in that video, I don’t think the vast majority of DDs fry on-site anymore. They just get them delivered, AFAIK.