Donuts too sweet and greasy? I suppose you people also think ice cream sundae’s can have too much fudge…
I’m neutral on the matter. I agree they’re over-hyped, but I think KK’s is a solid product. You can’t compare them to Dunkin Donut’s–they’re a different kind of donut. KK’s is a yeast leavened donut, and DD’s is a cake/baking-powder leavened product.
Personally, what I love is I’ll go to KK’s to get a cup of coffee in the morning, and they always give out one free, hot, glazed donut. That is exactly as much donut as I need any morning, and the black coffee perfectly counteracts the syrupy sweetness of the KK donut. I think it’s a brilliant match.
DD’s I like primarily for the kruller. Otherwise, their donuts always taste stale to me.
Another thing is the Krispy Kreme donut reminds me somewhat of the donuts my aunt in Poland used to make on the farm. My aunt didn’t make them that sweet, but they had that airy, soft fresh-from-the-fryer yeast-leavened goodness to them. You had to eat them within an hour or so of frying as they’d get stale really fast. They were best eaten directly from the fryer, with a bit of powdered sugar on them.
So, for me, Krispy Kreme has the edge in donuts, but I like my donuts airy and light. I eat them at most four times a year, but that’s about three times more a year than I eat Dunkin Donut’s.
KK gets a big “meh” from me–I agree, too damned sweet. I’d like to be able to get some hot off the line with cinnamon sugar or powdered sugar or chocolate, but no–the KK wallahs have decreed that only grossly overglazed ones may be purchased still warm. Too spendy as well, by a factor of about 35%. The only thing they have going is that they actually do make a blueberry fritter, which is completely awesome tasting. Of course, since it’s not one of the overglazed ones there’s no chance whatsoever of getting a really fresh one, so the novelty of the blueberry is outweighed by the not-so-fresh factor. If my local doughnut shop got smart and began making blueberry or even (please please please!) a PEACH fritter I’d never look aside from them again and I would weigh about 5000 lbs. Probably just as well, really… 
dunkin donuts? They seem like something you’d buy in a grocery store. I like Krispy Kreme for their melt-in-your-mouth texture. Tastee Donuts glazed are good, but nothing beat Buttermilk drops from McKenzie’s.
I’m getting the feeling that a lot of people dont like KK merely because they fail to live up to the hype. Big, fat, hairy deal.
I like DD but IMO they are often stale and unfulfilling. Whatever can be said against KK, if you buy one at the store you know what you’re going to get. Biting into a DD can either be wonderfu,l or it can be a stale, crusty nightmare, baked of the yeast from Satan’s mangina.
Eeerrgggh, for some irrational reason this thread is making me angry… like I feel KK is being unfairly slammed or something.
Very, very much “for.” Keep Dunkin’ Donuts. It’s shit.
Against. Too sweet, too rich, too greasy.
Give me Tim Horton’s any day.
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Eeerrgggh, for some irrational reason this thread is making me angry… like I feel KK is being unfairly slammed or something.
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Yes it is irrational. Not everybody likes the same thing. It doesn’t invalidate what you like. I think that the people that don’t like Krispy Kreme doughnuts genuinely don’t like them. There’s no “but, but, but… you have to get them right off the machine!”. We just don’t like them. There is no reason to take it personally.
There are no bad doughnuts. None.
As Homer would say, “Just Donut!”
Fresh KK donuts rule. Those hot cinnamon donuts in a bag they offer at Smokey Bones (a barbecue joint chain) are pretty snappy, too.
As for the rationale, my taste buds provide the rationale. It’s like eating sugar-spun air, cotton candy with the wholesomeness of bread. Wehn they’re fresh, they just melt on your tongue, the whole donut, not just the icing. Nothing else compares.
Against, I’m with Spoons–give me a pack of Timbits for the highway and I’m good for any road trip, anywhere.
For. If there were a KK anywhere closer than the 50 min. each way we have now I’d go more often.
I HATE DD. We have a DD and Ice Creme combo joint near here and every time I go there the racks are nearly bare. I ask 'Isn’t his a donut Shop? Loke, were people sell donuts?" The imbecile teens behind the counter say “We just make donuts twice a day. At like 6am and again at 5pm.”
So’s I ask “So if you run out of donuts… in the donut shop… you just stand here without donuts until the appointed hour?”
“Uh, yeah?” The attitude is "we’re all there is so take what we give ya or do without. Well, screw!
Dumb asses. I have written them off.
As to the sugar & grease, I understand your feelings towards less-than-new glazed and never eat them. Rarely a glazed and only hot off the conveyor. I like the cake and the filled myself.
I wish all DD would dry up and close and KK would move into their old locations.
AFAIK, Krispy Kreme does not make plain old-fashioned donuts (aka buttermilk in some regions). If I had a donut jones and KK was the only place around, I’d probably go without.
I don’t hate KK like some here do, but I do like DD better.
Tim Horton’s has them both beat by miles. The chocolate glazed that was rhapsodized about above, the boston creams with custard in 'em, the really nice honey glazed - and the specialty doughnuts. I’m still dreaming of the cappucino cream ones. And, yeah, Timbits. Deadly little morsels you can eat a boxful of.
Krispy Kremes are so overpoweringly sweet, they make my teeth hurt. If I can’t get Shipley’s, I’ll pass.
In my experience, Krispy Kreme is a krapshoot, possibly depending on the location and/or employees who make each batch or something.
The first 3 or 4 times I had KK doughnuts, it was the plain glazed ones, and they were overly sweet with a bad aftertaste. Then I had a KK chocolate doughnut. I couldn’t eat more than 2 bites it was so awful. Made my sister take a bite and she gagged on it. We tossed it.
Then I went with another sister and her boys, and we got given a free hot glazed doughnut as we walked in the store. And it was good. Not food-of-the-gods good, but good. And then I had a fresh powdered-sugar-coated strawberry-filled doughnut. And that was damn good.
I’ve had them a couple of times since then, and they’ve never been as awful as the first few times I had them. They’ve all been at least decent. But varying quality each time. Dunkin Donuts, while not perfect, are at least reliably good. Best doughnuts, of course, are still from the bakery.
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Still not touching the vile chocolate doughnuts, though. Not even if you paid me.
Different as pie and cake to me and I still like both. My work is near a Krispy Kreme so that’s our “go to” place when we decide we need donuts in the morning. But I grew up on Winchell’s and a local shop who made traditional Dunkin’ Donutsesque donuts. So they taste totally different and have totally different textures to me and I still like 'em both.
Against. Their chocolate is just nasty.