Well, i loathe coffee in all forms, and I only like Asian type teas. If you put sugar in a jasmine tea you’re just strange.
I hate them. I hate them a lot. Before I start Atkins, I could manage to eat one if someone else was treating (why let good food go to waste?) Now that I haven’t had sugar in 12 weeks, the very sight of one is enough to make me want to vomit.
Ugh.
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I’ll pass on the KK kontroversy because the black militant in me simply won’t admit to occassionally enjoying a product with “KK” on it.
But this sweet tea business… oh, absolutely. Give me a strong brewed pitcher of ice cold Lipton’s orange pekoe sweetened by the gallon and chilled to perfection and topped off with fresh lemon wedges with a big tall glass full of ice-- mmmm, heaven!
Unsweeted iced tea is a damn 'bombination. A close second is the powered instant tea crap – I have to be mighty thirsty, pretty hard up and out of other options to touch that stuff.
/rant/ I made the mistake of ordering a pitcher of raspberry iced tea in a neighborhood bar and grill when I first moved up here. It was, unbeknownst to me, unsweetened. It was, with one sip, absolute confirmed swill.
I must’ve opened ten of those little sugar packets and clnkety-cliked the spoon in the glass five minutes trying to dissolve the crystals into the tea. I couldn’t even bribe the waitress into going in the back and stirring two cups of sugar into the pitcher. How can a man relax and enjoy his meal if he has to work just to make it palpable?
Unsweeted tea has its time and place with other elegant and exotic varieties, particularly when your goal is to relax, get warm or get over a cold.
Hell, I’ll even take mine without the lemon wedge if I must, so long as its brewed strong.
Damn Yankees cannot fix good barbeque, and you cannot make decent iced tea. /rant/
Yer all crazy.
Best doughnuts are Those Little Donuts available at Vancouver’s PNE two weeks a year. Occasionally they sprout elsewhere, and they’re good.
My favorite KK, when I ate them, was the cinnamon-coated apple-filled ones.
/hijack to the tea bit/I 've seen the restaurants make the sweet tea, with a ton of sugar in the vat of hot water. No thanks. For noon and evening meals, the only beverage I drink is iced tea, but I sweeten it with my pocket stash of Aspartame.
I’ve eaten Krispy Kremes since I was a young 'un. They were a popular band fundraiser when I was in high school The sellers would get up at the crack of dawn and drive to the KK bakery and pick up donuts, then bring them home and sell them early. Yum! Sweet and greasy is what they’re SUPPOSED to be, y’all!
[Full disclosure] I hate cake donuts. They’re too heavy for me. Yeast donuts only, and the sweeter the better.
And I can take iced tea sweet or unsweetened now, though I grew up on super sweet Southern iced tea. My hot tea is always unsweetened though.
They’ve recently become available in Australia, but I don’t like them very much. They’re too sweet. And they’re also quite expensive unless one buys a dozen at time.
The plain glazed KK doughnuts are not very good. The glaze just tastes “off” (either too sweet, or too much glaze, or just bad) and leaves a nasty aftertaste.
My passion, however, is for chocolate doughnuts…so my sister, the last time she got KK doughnuts, got some chocolate ones just for me. And they were just vile! It made me want to puke, got my other sister to take one bite and she nearly did. The rest of the chocolate doughnuts got thrown untouched into the trash.
And–for those of you pushing continually on the “you have to eat them hot”–what good is a doughnut that is only edible for 10 minutes? Not everyone is buying doughnuts to eat on the spot (especially when they’re buying a dozen or more).
Let’s see here, I like my coffee black, very strong, and with no freakin’ sugar, my tea sweet (preferrably with honey), and I absolutely hate KKs with a passion. I won’t even eat them if they’re free.
I never liked KK’s donuts. The consistency seems wrong. Too homogenized, too dense overall (and too sweet). I like Mary Lee Donuts (which are a lot like Dunkin’ Donuts, and Shipley’s) but I’m guessing Mary Lees are only found in the deep south.
I don’t agree with them as I like Krispy Kremes even when they’re old but do you not think temperature affects the taste of food? Room temperature ice cream isn’t all that appealing, nor is cold Mexican food.
KK are vile. Timmy’s forever!
I’ve only had them recently (it takes a while for these things to reach Montana), and I must say, I don’t know what all the fuss is. I think the plain glazed ones are pretty good, better than your run-of-the-mill plain donuts, but they’re not the best I’ve ever had, and I certainly wouldn’t drive fifty miles to buy one or camp out at a store opening. And their chocolate donuts just aren’t taste right… What they do taste like isn’t really describable, but it’s definitely not chocolate. And me being a choclatarian, that’s more significant to me than their plain ones, anyway, since I’ll prefer a chocolate donut over (almost) any non-plain one anyday.
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Someone 'splain to me what the difference is between a cake doughnut and a yeast doughnut. I’ve never heard either term.
Sweet tea- YES!
KK donuts- NO!
I have wondered what the fuss is about those donuts for a long time. I know people who make the pilgramage to the KK store and each family member gets their own box or two for a special occasion. That is just WRONG.
Out here, a yeast doughnut is called a raised doughnut. (e.g., you’d go to Winchell’s and ask for a ‘raised glazed’.) Raised doughnuts are kind of airy and have larger holes inside of them (not the hole in the middle). Cake doughnuts have smaller holes within, and are firmer.
Examples of cake doughnuts are those chocolate ones with or without chocolate icing and sprinkles, and the plain doughnuts that are good for dunking. KK glazed doughnuts are raised.
I believe cake donuts are made with baking powder (like cakes) and yeast donuts are made with yeast (like bread). Yeast donuts have a fluffier, airier texture, but really should be appreciated straight out of the deep fryer. They have a tendency to go stale fast. The baking powder in cake donuts doesn’t allow them to rise as much, and thus they are denser and cakier.
Krispy Kremes don’t do it for me. My idea of a donut is a ring-shaped piece of deepfried bread dough rolled in granulated sugar while still hot.
Unsweetened iced tea with lemon here.
A cake doughnut has the consistency of a firm cake - closer to a muffin than a croissant.
A yeast doughnut has a lighter, airy consistency - closer to a croissant than a muffin.
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As for me: Krispy Kreme–meh, I don’t know. Back when I was having more migraines, I used to eat two KK’s and wash it down with a sweetened iced tea for The World’s Most Complete Source of Sugar (a sugar jolt and a Zomig being the cure of the hour).
There is a donut chain I like less than KK–Maple Donuts. It’s a local chain in York, PA, where my folks live. Everyone down there likes 'em, so I have to whisper this: I think their donuts always taste a bit stale. Plus, after eating one you feel like you’ve just swallowed a bowling ball.
Our area (Niagara Falls, NY) is rare for having both a Dunkin’ Donuts and Tim Horton’s in town. I never go to the Dunkin’ Donuts. Tim’s is where it’s at.
But, my all-time favorite chain is no longer alive: Mister Donut. When I was in high school, it was THE place to hang out. I still miss their chocolate dip donuts: cake-like texture topped by a dark, fudgey, bittersweet chocolate.
So, my donut food chain is: Maple Donuts < Krispy Kreme < Dunkin’ Donuts < Tim Hortons < Mister Donut.