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Subject: BS: Krispy Kreme From: John MacKenzie Date: 17 Mar 04 - 03:04 PM Just seen on TV that they're opening in the UK. Come on America you can't dump all your rubbish on us:-) John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: GUEST,Martin Gibson Date: 17 Mar 04 - 03:23 PM We can and we will. I recommend the chocolate covered ones with white kreme inside. Oh, yeah. Too many might give you gas. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Amergin Date: 17 Mar 04 - 03:25 PM I had a donut from them once...I was not all that impressed. It just tasted like any other donut. I fail to see what the excitement is all about. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Date: 17 Mar 04 - 03:49 PM John!!!! How dare you call Krispy Kreme "rubbish"!! You Brit's are still pissed because we dumped your lousy tea!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Stilly River Sage Date: 17 Mar 04 - 04:02 PM Those doughnuts are way too sweet and they're mostly air. I wouldn't go out of my way to buy one. Lines form around those businesses when they first open, everyone wanting to go through the drive-through window to get their hot Krispy Kremes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: GUEST,Homer from Springfield Date: 17 Mar 04 - 04:05 PM Mmmm, Krispy Kreme, mmmm. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Strick Date: 17 Mar 04 - 04:13 PM I like the donuts from a local shop much better. For that matter I like Tim Hortons (they're all over Canada) a lot better, too. These guys seem to be following the Starbucks model, put Krispy Kremes every where you can whether people need them or not. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 17 Mar 04 - 04:39 PM Krispy Kreme restaurants are well-known as gathering places for space aliens who are auditioning abductees. Many an unwary person has stopped in at 2:00 AM for what he thought would be a couple of glazed donuts, a cup of coffee and a little converstion, only to wake up strapped naked to a table while surrounded by little green guys who are busy sticking some kind of probe into his nether regions. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Strick Date: 17 Mar 04 - 04:40 PM "only to wake up strapped naked to a table while surrounded by little green guys who are busy sticking some kind of probe into his nether regions" "put Krispy Kremes every where you can whether people need them or not" These statements may have more in common than I originally thought. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: John MacKenzie Date: 17 Mar 04 - 05:05 PM Was that a point for, or a point against Bee-Dubya? John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Date: 17 Mar 04 - 05:09 PM SRS - "way too sweet"? Impossible!!!! Airy? Absolutely! Having only been raised on Dunkin Donuts, Krispy Kremes were a breath of fresh air!!! :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Strick Date: 17 Mar 04 - 05:16 PM "Was that a point for, or a point against Bee-Dubya?" I was just beginning to notice the convergence of the themes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: freightdawg Date: 17 Mar 04 - 05:19 PM From the "truth is stranger than fiction" files... They opened a Krispy Kreme here in Albuquerque a few years back, and there was this big empty lot right next door. So, about 2:00 am whilst returning from some local crime fighting, in swoops this multi-million dollar police helicopter. Pilot puts her right in the open field and keeps it turning, and his buddy runs across, picks up a couple of Krispy Kremes and a couple of coffees and sprints back to the 'copter, and whirrrrrr, off they go. It added a whole new dimension to the "cops at the donut shop" joke. The cops were supposedly "off duty," and they caught all kinds of grief (even an official reprimand, I think). Of course, I thought it was rib-busting hysterical myself. I see nothing wrong with a little coffee break for our police, no matter how they get there. :-) Freightdawg |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Allan C. Date: 17 Mar 04 - 06:22 PM I have been a baker for both Dunkin' Donuts and Krispy Kreme as well as a few other smaller shops. Yes, the donuts are full of air. That's the point! Otherwise you'd be eating a soggy lump of dough. Since I have had plenty of opportunities to compare, I can tell you that Dunkin's are the very best of all I have ever sampled. All of the above remarks apply to the yeast raised donuts. My own predilection is for the plain cake donuts fresh from the fryer. Yummy! By the way, many authorities recognize Dunkin' Donuts' own brand of coffee is among the best, non-specialty coffees you can buy. It will soon be made available at American grocery stores. However, nothing will ever sway me from my love of Dark Sumatra. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Bobert Date: 17 Mar 04 - 06:35 PM Well, I'm down to about one doughnut a year these days but back in the late 60's it was a different story. We were out playin' music 'til 1:00 in the am and wired and needed to calm down so it was off to the Krispy Kreme at the corner of Staples Mill and Broad in Richmond. Open all night, it was *the spot* to hang after midnight. And them doughnuts were made all day long since it also boxed up thousands everyday so you could get a hot one. Now, you ain't lived 'til you've had a hot Krispy Kreme galzed doughnut at 1:30 in the mornin'..... And talk about some wierd, as well as wired, people? Geeze........ Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Rapparee Date: 17 Mar 04 - 06:48 PM Aforen I was married..... This here woman (who I did eventually marry) and myself were workin' tech on a play at the local little theatre. So one night after the last tech rehearsal, it was like 2 a.m., and we wanted a bite to eat and a place to just sit and talk. Well, at 2 a.m. all the bars were closed, so we picked up some DIXIE CREAM doughnuts and a coupla Cokes and headed out to a dark country lane. There we were, both of use well into our twenties, leanin' against opposite doors of her Volkswagen beetle, when a searchlight and headlights lit us up. The Deputy Sheriff -- who I'm sure couldn't believe his eyes -- was just as polite and nice...and we could see the gears in his head goin' round and round, as in "Two adults, opposite sides of the car, Coca-Cola, doughnuts, no dope smell...what the heck is going on here??" We left him wondering. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Burke Date: 17 Mar 04 - 07:23 PM Cola & doughnuts. Way too much sugar, my stomach roils at the thought! I'll always think of my grandparent when I think of Krispy Kremes. My grandfather just loved getting them hot at the shop. Having started WeightWatchers about 2 months ago, deep fried foods are something I'm just not eating. When it comes to loosing weight, you can't get much worse than doughnuts |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: GUEST,John Hardly Date: 17 Mar 04 - 07:32 PM You can argue against my politics. You can argue against my religion. Argue against my Krispy Kremes and the gloves come off. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 17 Mar 04 - 07:58 PM They opened a Krispy Kreme around here (southern Connecticut.) There was a brief flurry of excitement, and now they don't seem any busier than the other donut stores. My favorite donut shop is right down the hill, locally owned and makes the best donuts I've ever tasted. They aren't the sugar high of Krispy Kreme, which suits my taste, they are bigger, less expensive, and when they're out of lemon filled chocolate-dipped donuts my wife likes, they will make them up on the spot for me.. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Mooh Date: 17 Mar 04 - 09:19 PM Krispy Kreme? For which team did HE play? I'm a block from Tim Horton's...good carrot muffins. Peace (and a full tummy), Mooh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Chief Chaos Date: 17 Mar 04 - 10:10 PM I know of at least one town in North Carolina where the business next door to the doughnut shop IS the police Dept. Same thing down here in Morgan City, Louisiana. Mesches doughnuts sits right next to the police dept. I prefer Dunkin doughnuts for variety. And knowing they'd be open when returning home from a response to the boondocks in the middle of the night so you could get a cuppa or a nice hot sandwhich while the fast food places were closed was great. The glazed Krispy Cremes are only good when hot. Cold they lose their appeal for me. They do however make a great pumpkin spice doughnut around Halloween |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: JennieG Date: 18 Mar 04 - 01:37 AM They have made it to Sydney, Oz where the first one opened last year and I believe there are more to come. I tried them and know what they are like - don't need to have any more, my curiosity has been satisfied. Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Ellenpoly Date: 18 Mar 04 - 08:49 AM Mmmmm Dunkin Donuts and Dark Sumatra, AlanC, where have you BEEN all my life??..xx..e |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Rapparee Date: 18 Mar 04 - 09:03 AM I'll sometimes eat Krispy Kremes, but if I want doughnuts, give me Dunkin' Doughnuts, or Dixie Creme, or Spudnuts, or, best all, those from a locally owned shop where they're made fresh! My wife LOVES a bagel with smoked salmon cream cheese spread from Dunkin' Doughnuts. And their coffee IS excellent. Not as good as, say, Arbuckle's or straight Kona or Kenya AA or real Blue Mountain, but excellent all the same. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Strick Date: 18 Mar 04 - 10:21 AM Rapaire, you're a man after my own heart. Sorry, John Hardly, but it's the truth. :b |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: GUEST,sorefingers Date: 18 Mar 04 - 11:12 AM They could not call it 'The Krusty Krab' because the already media rich owners and creators of the show 'Spongebob' invented the idea, however a close second - if you reject the 'Kinky K****t' Adult Emporium - was the Krepid Kookout but this was replaced by the more inviting Krispee Kreeme - Information for the punter - the doughnuts are not any better than 'Doughnut Dollies' in your local area. In fact the Krispies are full of Krap to reconstitute your body for later sales of medicines you should soon be needing ( hint sugar induced diabetes )that these Kreeps are selling. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: John MacKenzie Date: 18 Mar 04 - 12:47 PM I prefer Colombian coffee myself, sorry EllenPolly. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Ellenpoly Date: 18 Mar 04 - 12:49 PM Mmmmm Coffee...all kinds are gratefully accepted..xx..e |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Penny S. Date: 18 Mar 04 - 05:26 PM I remember being introduced to a bakers at Milton Keynes shopping centre, name of Geo. Orts, where one could buy a bakers' dozen of Dunstable doughnuts. Try asking for that without a run-up. They were small, round, sugared and unfilled, and came pre-bagged. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 19 Mar 04 - 12:23 AM Nearly every car I've owned just automatically turns in to the parking lot of a Krispy Kreme store. Love 'em! When my kids were small, we would buy a dozen donuts at the grocery and try to make it home before we ate all of them. One time we were driving through an intersection and Hubby was driving toward us. I just held the donut box out the car window, and he grabbed it as we passed. Do y'all know what the Krispy Kreme box looks like? About the time the above incident happened, the kids refered to the shirt of one of Hubby's friends as the "donut shirt." It was white with green polka dots. Now you've learned something. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: LadyJean Date: 19 Mar 04 - 12:34 AM The Krispy Kreme donut is a mediocre donut. I never have seen what all the fuss was about. I use a local bakery for all my donut needs. They do a superior custard donut, my particlular favorite. The absolute best are the ones you make yourself, but Oh Lord what a mess! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: John MacKenzie Date: 19 Mar 04 - 03:54 AM A doughnut without the hole in the middle, is not deserving of the name. The Dunstable doughnuts mentioned above are just a gimmick to sell off the bit cut out of the middle, when making PROPER duff-nuts. So there!....John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Ellenpoly Date: 19 Mar 04 - 04:13 AM LOL Mary in Kentucky...funny story!..xx..e |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: GUEST Date: 19 Mar 04 - 08:16 AM I prefer Yum Yums. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie Date: 19 Mar 04 - 12:09 PM I grew up on Krispy Kreme so I have a sentimental attachment to them. Maybe they're not superior donuts, but they are good. I love the chocolate-covered-creme-filled donut, and the old powdered-sugar-covered-lemon-creme donut I don't think they make anymore. When I was a little kid, we almost always stopped at Krispy Kreme after church on Sundays, and I got one of those lemon donuts. Back at Thanksgiving, my mother called me up and said, Is Krispy Kreme on your way over here? And I said, well, not exactly, but it certainly can be. She put in an order for donuts for herself, my stepfather, and my brother, who was in town. She said he had bought a box from the grocery, but it just wasn't the same! They wanted some FRESH! I pass by it every day on my way home from work. I rarely eat donuts anymore as it gets to be more and more of a struggle to keep my girlish figure the closer to 40 I get. But I can still enjoy the fragrance of fresh donuts. One of my friends refers to the ventilation turbans as "donut fragrance deployment devices." ;-) I do like Dunkin Donuts, too, and a couple of local places here in Nashville. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: M.Ted Date: 19 Mar 04 - 12:15 PM Krispy Kreme glaze doughnuts are great, as long as you get them in within that narrow window of time between the time they are baked and the time they start to dry out--Fresh, you must take care not to eat the whole box, but buy a box from a display in Target on Sunday night, and you won't even finish one-- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Pseudolus Date: 19 Mar 04 - 12:32 PM I LOVE Krispy Kremes!!!!!! Especially the glazed and also the cinnimon. there's also not much at a Dunkin Donuts that I would say no to either!!!! So maybe I'm not a good judge!! hahahaha Frank |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Penny S. Date: 19 Mar 04 - 05:14 PM Proper doughnuts do not have holes - they have jam - real jam, oozing out in a fruity sticky mess. Though I concede the size of the Dunstable doughnuts is suggestive of being hole filling! Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 19 Mar 04 - 10:17 PM Click on the link below, and you will win a $50 Krispy Kreme card. While you're at it, you can give them your email address. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 19 Mar 04 - 10:19 PM Drat! It's gone now, and refreshing won't bring it back. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Strick Date: 19 Mar 04 - 10:40 PM "Proper doughnuts do not have holes..." I agree but for a different doughnut. My favorites are holeless cake doughnuts a local chain makes. They're called prairie muffins because of their distinctive shape. If you don't know, don't ask. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: John MacKenzie Date: 20 Mar 04 - 06:32 AM Are prairie mufins like barkers eggs? John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: GUEST,Mooh Date: 20 Mar 04 - 11:34 AM Had to stop by Tim Horton's for a muffin yesterday morning on my way to visit my mother. Love those carrot muffins! The coolest thing about TH's is that it's named for the hockey player. So, I ask again, for what team did Krispy Kreme play? Peace, Mooh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Allan C. Date: 20 Mar 04 - 11:50 AM The Krispy Kreme folks are more into road racing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: GUEST Date: 20 Mar 04 - 03:35 PM Hence the grease? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Allan C. Date: 20 Mar 04 - 06:45 PM Now that you mention it, yes, GUEST, it is the grease, as much as any other ingredient, that gives donuts their flavor. This is especially evident in cake donuts. Get a fresh cake donut before it cools (or else nuke one for just a few seconds). Hold it in your hand and squeeze. You'll be somewhere between amazed and grossed out when you see how much grease oozes between your fingers. Nonetheless, I love 'em. I ate four of them just last year! (I'm trying to cut back!) Speaking of grease… those of you who love "angel icing" beware. You don't ever want to watch or even think about how it is made. It does taste yummy, though, doesn't it! Anyone who walks into a donut shop expecting to find health food is in the wrong place. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Mooh Date: 20 Mar 04 - 09:13 PM Oops, that guest was me (re: grease). I always forget to add my name when I post from elsewhere. Where I live, Tim Horton's might be considered health food (LOL)...it's certainly healthy enough for the police. Peace, Mooh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 20 Mar 04 - 10:05 PM "Krispy Kreme" is an anagram for "Pesky Mirker"! Not sure if that means anything important, but, if it does, you heard it here first! Bruce |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Strollin' Johnny Date: 21 Mar 04 - 04:35 AM No bloody wonder Americans are the most obese society on Earth. They eat crap. On a trip to Houston TX I went to get a coffee at the Galleria McDonalds and, sad bastard that I am, found myself tempted by their Sausage and Egg McMuffins. I bought one but, when I bit into it, it was sausage and egg in a BLUEBERRY muffin (complete with sugar dusting) - totally vile and inedible - yet all around me were mini-Americans joyously gorging themselves on the things. And there were lots of people in my hotel who ate CAKES for breakfast - Philistines the lot of 'em. There's no hope :0) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Krispy Kreme From: Mark Cohen Date: 21 Mar 04 - 05:09 AM Well, Rapaire, I'll agree with you on Kona coffee, but a bagel from [gasp, shudder] Dunkin' Donuts??? I think I'm gonna cry! (Hmmm...maybe that's how French people feel about croissants from Burger King...) Aloha, Mark PS Krispy Kreme just opened their first store in Hawaii, but it's on Maui. They say they don't expect a store here on Oahu for several years. I can wait. |
