Look! There’s one!
spooje,
give benfranklin back his quote, i listened to the disciples of krispy kreme and i’m a big fat guy so when a kk opened close to the house i went down there and bought an assortment, out of the folks in my house (3 adults and 2 kids), nobody liked them.
i went through the same thing with “sliders” (white castle), those crappy waana be “burgers” so i stopped and got some the first chance that i got, yuck!, suckass imitation burgers!.
unclviny
Try some penicillin.
[sub]Sorry. Couldn’t resist the obvious penis joke.[/sub]
I LOVE Krispy Kreme. I like Dunkin’ better, but they don’t make them right outside the US.
I read they are also on their way to Australia and New Zealand…
I think they are the best, unhealthy, fattening, addictive, teeth-rotting product on the market.
I buy a dozen every Wednesday and bring them to work…I guarantee you I will be the last person ever fired from this company because of that…they already refer to Wednesdays here as Krispy Kreme day. Of course, if I ever forget, it could be dangerous to go to my desk…
The Seattle TV stations played-up the arrival of KK like it was hard news (as opposed to “advertising,” whatever that means anymore), so the hype is still pretty strong up here in the Puget Sound area.
Seeing an oportunity, enterprising people wake up closer to midnight than dawn and buy dozens of KK’s (wholesale), drive them to the far corners of the counties, then stand by the busier commuter roads to hawk them. (remember that “I’ll bet you dollars to donuts” cliche to describe sure-thing propositions? These people have flipped the equation and made it a useless figure of speech)
So this morning I was driving to work. It was still dark, in the 40’s and lightly raining. By the road was a woman waving a big white donut box, and clutching her legs as the cars sped by were two children, who looked to be four or five years old.
I don’t know their family circumstances, but whatever they are, I wish she wouldn’t have to put her kids through that. I wish people wouldn’t buy her donuts, so she’d have to figure out a better way to raise cash. If this is what will happen in the UK, let’s impose donut sanctions against Tony Blair.
Oh, I suppose they’re alright, but nothing too special. I don’t go out of my way to get them, but that sure doesn’t mean I turn them down 
They’re doughnuts. Not very exciting.
Give me a gigantic chocolate chip cookie over a Krispy Kreme any day.
They’re overpriced. I went to the BRAND NEW! KK store that opened downtown a few weeks ago to see what the hype was about.
They wanted a $1 PER DONUT. Dude, I can get an identical donut for 35 cents at my local grocery. Why would I pay 3 times that for a label?
(And no, I never went in for designer jeans either. 
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Oh, and it didn’t help that they messed up my order, either. (Here I was hoping for something extraordinary, or at least different, and they gave me the custard-filled donut that’s exactly like the ones at the grocery store.)
Imagine this…Krispie Kreme uses an adaptation of XTC’s “Senses Working Overtime” as the theme song for a massive ad campaign in the UK. XTC pulls in a ton of royalties and suddenly feels inspired to do a world tour. Dave rejoins the band. Before long, XTC is getting more radio airplay than Eminem. XTC starts cranking out new CDs like crazy and they all go multi-platinum.
But then they all get a case of megalomania, Andy gets addicted to Dunkin Donuts, the music starts to suffer, and they fade away again into semi-obscurity.
Feel free to make as many plans for Nigel as you like Phil, but there’s no way I’m going to spend 60 pence on a friggin’ doughnut unless its fed to me by Sophie Anderton in a thong.
Indeed. Why not go to Winchell’s and buy doughnuts for the whole office? For $9.99 you get 28 doughnuts. I do that occasionally. On Thursdays, as Friday is when the company buys KK. But in any case, Winchell’s and Spudnuts are less expensive and they taste better.
I love Krispy Kreme. I became familiar with them when I lived in Greensboro, NC, where it seems there is one on every street corner. However, the past few times I’ve eaten them, they’ve given me BAD heartburn/indigestion. So bad that I’ll probably never eat them again.
KK’s original glazed served hot right out of the river of hot fat and curtain of sugar: To die for.
KK’s original glazed microwaved 8-9 seconds: pretty good.
Every other KK product, even the original if served cold: Just another gut bomb.
thank gods the nearest outlet is 45 miles away from me.
Never had one (k.k.donut that is) some of y’all say they’re pretty good, huh?..I kinda like a slice of homemade PECAN pie w/ a hot cup of coffee…
“mmm-mmmm, that’s goooood coffee! Oh, Andy!”
(remember that)
Whether these things are a blessing from the Almighty, or divine vengeance for our sins - why is the non-English-speaking world mysteriously left out? To me, this raises doubts about KK donuts’ “gastronomic integrity”.
I find it interesting that they’re sending them overseas, yet have not opened any stores in the (extreme) Northeast. Up here we eat our dunkin donuts and like it!
But do they still sell the toy trucks (semi-trailers) and boxer shorts emblazoned with the name and logo? Ours did locally, but I haven’t stepped into a KK since I can’t have sugar anymore.
Oh, and say hello to traffic jams once the stores do open. One opened up near my office, and I had to find an alternate route for at least a month til the novelty died down and they put in a new traffic light near the store (I swear to the almighties, there was a two mile traffic jam for the drive-thru lane).
Pheh. When Mrs Fields comes to the “British Isles”, then I’ll get excited.
t-keela,
if ever in houston, go to “jim goode’s goode company bar-b-que” for what is possibly the worlds finest pecan pie (this coming from a texas born and raised fat guy whose mother was a coon ass).
unclviny