Is your town a donut town?

Cafe Society
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My small suburb of Jackson, MS has one doughnut shop: Shipley’s. But this is one of the best places I’ve ever been to. Their chocolate filled doughnuts are out of this world. You have to get there really early on Sunday morning, because the local churches will wipe their inventory out.

If you count Jackson and all the surrounding towns, we have a Krispy Kreme, a Dunkin Donuts, Scurlocks (which is another local shop, but also out of this world) and several other mom and pop stores. So I’d say yes, we are indeed a doughnut town.

To me, nothing compares to Burke’s Bakery in my hometown of Danville, KY. Not only did they have awesome doughnuts - even the day old ones were amazing - but gingerbread men, cookies, eclairs, and the most delicious butterflake rolls known to man. Everytime we go up there, I have to try to stock up: but the rolls never make it back to Mississippi. :slight_smile:

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We have eight Shipleys in my city. A chain that covers Texas, Ark, Louisiana, Tenn.

My hometown has a independent place that’s been popular since the late 1940’s.

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I live in Winston-Salem, NC. Krispy Kreme was founded by my wife’s family (Rudolph) Yes we are a doughnut town.

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And Mississippi: it’s the same chain.

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Well dangit, tell them to put one in Durham!

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7-Eleven sells donuts that are better than Dunkin’s and they are everywhere!

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Not everywhere. I think the closest one to me is somewhere in Texas, which is two states over.

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Same here in the University town down in the bottom of the scrotum of the Willamette Valley. I work a few blocks from the downtown Voodoo donuts, which might be the only busy business in downtown, and I can think of a couple of independent places, but I don’t know of a chain donut places. They might be here, but not on my radar. Not a donut town and I’m not a donut guy.

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In last spring’s Food network donut challenge, the top two winners were from Seattle.

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You, sir, have my respect. And if you inherit any of the company, please keep that “HOT” light on.

We (Madison, WI) have donuts for many morning meetings, or sitting out on receptionist’s counters, or inside the door at the mechanic’s shop.
And it’s almost always a box with the “Donut Man” on it, from a little local shop (Oakhouse Bakery). They must crank out a ton of donuts…

Today I helped move some homeless people into a church, and there they were-- a dozen Donut Man donuts.

Anecdote: when I first moved here, I lived a block away from The Donut Man. They’re open midnight til 4 am or so while they’re fryin’ cakes, so my roommate and I would get a dozen… and have them all eaten by the time we walked home.

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I disagree. It’s not a chain donut shop town but there’s plenty of bakeries about with lovely, yeasty donuts. I worked on a project for the city of Mpls and someone brought in donuts 2-3 days a week. If it was a non-donut day and we were in need, one of the staff would make a run.

We ran that project on sugar and grease.