So they build a new Krispy-Kreme doughnut shop down the street from us…the first in the Bay Area. They do a feature on the morning news and the place is packed morning noon and night. The inside is bursting at the seams with people ordering and eating, with people spilling out into the parking lot cramming doughnuts into their faces like they can’t even wait until they get to their cars; drive-thru line 30+ cars deep, snaking into the night a la Field of Dreams.
Here’s the thing…we drive by one night at like 1AM and they’re unloading racks and racks of pre-made doughnuts – they don’t even make them there! Everyone waiting in line can see it but no one seems to care. (I know when I worked at a theater I used to get asked a million times a day “Do you make your popcorn here?”) Anyway, my husband breaks down and finally gets in line and brings home some of these supposedly awesome doughnuts and they are truly pitiful. Little, bland and unexceptional. What’s the big deal? The doughnut place down the street bakes their own, taste great and is probably cheaper to boot. Is there some sort of taste sensation I’m missing? Is it pure hype?
Krispy Kreme - Another Southern institution gone mainstream.
I’m sorry you had a disappointing experience with Krispy Kreme. To me there is nothing better than a warm KK and a cup of coffee. When you bite into them they kind of “poof” and disintegrate. Like I said above, “It’s a Suthun thang…you wouldn’t understand”
Krispy-Kreme rocks! I was at that opening, and what a blast. I brought home some 6 dozen donuts and everybody was my friend!
Krispy-Kreme is like In-and-Out Burger. It’s only donuts, but they’re just a little better than everyone else. It’ll be interesting to see how their upcoming IPO goes.
They do make 'em there, by the way. In fact, the machine that makes the donuts is displayed prominently; it’s fun to show the kids. They were probably dragging in raw supplies.
No, I used to work at a Dunkin’ Donuts and I know what racks of “proofed” doughnuts look like. They may have been “auxiliary” dounghnuts because they were having trouble keeping up with the demand but there were two semi’s full of them standing out in the parking lot with the dirt, dust and flies. Yuk!
Not only that, Dunkin’ Donuts remains the one place I can find that sells doughnuts filled with vanilla cream NOT custard! (Although I’m told the Krispy Kreme has vanilla, I’m not going to bother to find out. There weren’t any in the assorted batch we were handed.)
The same thing happened when we got a Starbucks. I admit, I stood in line forever to try this amazing coffee. It was just coffee.
Zette
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I don’t get it either. My best friend is bonkers for these things. I tried them, they’re good, but my socks stayed on. Entenmans (however you spell it) makes good donuts too, and they’re right in the supermarket.
I have to admit I’m a KK lover, although I wouldn’t rate them better than sex or anything like that. I think they do taste better than DD, and whenever I head up to NYC I make sure to pick some up (which was the only place I could get them until recently, when one just opened in Delaware on my way down to the beach). I just like them mostly because their chocolate frosted are glazed and frosted… {drool}
Eh. I’d have to disagree. Although I’ve had them warm, I haven’t had much of a choice since someone else brings them into work. They only bring in raised-glazed or raised-filled or raised-chocolate. I’m a devil’s-food kinda guy myself. I’ll stick with Winchel’s.
“I must leave this planet, if only for an hour.” – Antoine de St. Exupéry
I can, it’s called Winchell’s. Dunkin Donuts is like the Pic-N-Save of doughnut shops. They should be called Dunkin Detritus.
Anyway, Vix, do you think they might have made a bunch of surplus there and stored them in the semis for the grand opening? Seems logical.
My two bits on KK: I had them in Ohio a couple years ago and they were fan-fucking-tastic. I loved the different taste of them, especially the maple bars! Mmmmmmm! They don’t taste like regular doughnuts though.
Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
when I said I’d like to smash every tooth in your head.
A phenomenon similar to that related in the OP, and to Zette’s Starbucks occurred in the town I went to college in. Ithaca, NY had never before had a particular fast-food restaurant when the company came to town during my junior year. Everyone went crazy for it, although you had to figure that most of these people (college kids from other cities across the country) all had eaten this crap before. The parking lot and the restaurant was packed for at least six straight weeks. People couldn’t get enough. It was Taco Bell!!! That crap ain’t that good to begin with. You would have thought they were paying people to eat there.
All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren’t noticing which makes you see something that isn’t even visable.
Just found the Winchellswebsite. They have stores in Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon and Washington. Give 'em a try!
