What is the difference between a Dunkin’ Donut and a Krispy Kreme? What is the difference between a Hyundai and a Mercedes? What is the difference between the Backstreet Boys and the Rolling Stones? What is the difference between a sneeze and an orgasm?
KimKatt-
I was at a highfalutin’ academic conference on culinary history at the Hagley museum in Delaware. This guy presented a fabulous paper on the Canadian obsession with Tim Horton’s. Are the donuts really good, or is it just one of those things?
OK, see, the glazed/raised is made on this conveyor belt thingies, and they roll of, hot fresh and sticky 24/7 (my mouth is watering, now, dammit). They are just OK+, except that they are the freshest do-nuts I have ever had, and theyare that way all the time. Fresh makes the OK+ donut into one of the greatest donuts of all time. So you inhale them.
Now, out here in SJ, downtown, we have Lous, the Imperial star destroyer of donuts. Mostly better than KK, EXCEPT those damn so hot & fresh right out of the cooker glazed…
(thump)
Fell off chair, have to wipe drool off keyboard, must go now.
So exactly how many of them HAVE you consumed??? 
No good donut places here around Greater Seattle. You’d think it’d be a natural, right? Coffee City, USA…but very few of the espresso bars around here serve donuts. It’s all biscotti, scones, muffins, etc. I lived in Massachusetts for six years, and you can’t throw a pebble without hitting a Dunkin’ Donuts.
Actually, it’s just as well. I would gorge myself on Dunkin’ Donuts if they had one nearby.
I miss KK. Don’t have them in N. Indiana. I miss the conveyor belt (a true wonder of the world - its about 20 miles of fat and oil, cranking donuts out like lambs to the slaughter). I miss most the lemon-filled. Yup, I’d get a plain cake a lemon-filled and a cup o’ joe and read the paper.
Much better than Dunkin Donuts.
Mmmmmm… donuts… the perfect food…
There is a KK a few blocks from my work. A couple dozen appear at work every so often. Then they disappear just as quickly. My fav are the blueberry (at least, I think it is blueberry) filled and the apple filled with cinnamon-sugar instead of powdered sugar on the outside.
No office environment is complete without donuts…
Regards.
There are those who swear that Tim Hortons has the best coffee in the known universe.
There are others who disagree - these people are often shunned by their peers, and end up on street corners begging for change for a coffee.
Personally - I think the fact that you can’t go two miles in my town without encountering a Tim’s has much more to do with the popularity. We are still waiting to see what the Tim Hortons Saturation Point for Windsor is. At this point, there are 35 (if the phone book is correct) in a city of 200,000. And that probably doesn’t count all the little kiosk ones in the gas stations.
But they do make awesome donuts, and bagles, and their muffins positively rule.
I keep hearing about Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I’ve never seen a shop, or tried one (obviously).
But have to say that “Krispy Kreme” sounds like the most disgusting NAME for a doughnut.
Krisy KREME?
Stuff that’s not really Cream, but is enough like it that you want to pronounce it the same? And it’s CRISPY?
Yechh.
Ah, Krispy Kreme! Was completely unfamiliar with them for the first 28 years of my existence, then a wonderful woman showed me the pleasure of a sixpack of hot & fresh. (Thanks, Dionne, wherever you are!)
Mrs. O loves 'em too, and there’s one we pass by every time we go to visit her sister in PA (somewhere in DE, just outside of Newark, I think. Maybe the same one you know, Esprix? Anyway she does her Homer Simpson impression every time we pass it, and every time I ask if she wants to stop. And she always says no. One of these days I’m gonna pull in and buy her a couple just so maybe she won’t do it as often.
LMAO 
I can just imagine all these little space donuts having a dogfight - KK, DD, Tim’s - then all of a sudden this huge shadow overcasts them all. cueing up the Darth Vader theme
Krispy Kremes are a damn good donut but I prefer the buttermilk “sour kreme” or devil’s food to the original. Phoenix has had one for well over a year and the line of cars still looks like the last scene of Field of Dreams. Ours is red brick and green trim. They probably didn’t go with the 50’s, stainless steel diner look to distinguish it from the Five and Diner chain.
Ya all talk about them but none of ya say WHAT they taste like, so are they crispy? Thick? Dry? Bread like?
Yeah, there IPO doubled in a few months.
Hot, fresh, sweet, airy, melt-in-your mouth, tender,light, … damn, there goes the drool again…
A while back someone posted a thread saying she was moving to the Cities to attend college. One of his/her questions was whether there was a Krispy Kreme in the area. Whoever that poster was will be happy to know that a Krispy Kreme recently opened/will open shortly 
The doughnuts are perfect little torii. they have a perfectly even glaze that is crisp at first touch but melts instantly to a creamy mouth feel. The doughnuts seem light enough going down that i wonder how they stay solid and not pop like bubbles.
So light, so fresh, no that won’t cut it…
–Tim
Whoa, there was a Spud Nuts in Charlottesville back when I lived near there. mmmmmm.
Dinsdale: You write about this so clearly, I almost think you have intimate knowledge of this technique…