BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!

Subject: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 12:31 PM

Hi, Bill D. You had mentioned on another thread that there is a Dunkin' Donuts shop five minutes away from your residence, and it's been there for the past 30 years, and you've never once gone into it!

Well, I want you to go there. Today. Get a coffee and a donut when you do. Consume them. Take careful note of the decor and all that sort of thing. Then return home, log into Mudcat, and give us all a full report on the experience.

I want to know how the Dunkin' Donuts in your town measures up to international donut shop standards.

I also want to get you out of the house. I'm worried about you. ;-D

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 12:49 PM

LOLOL... you worry about my situation, and you WANT me to go there?

I said I hadn't been in it IN 30 years. I worked 6 stores north of it for 2 years, and was in it several times.

I am sure any report I would make, were I so silly as to follow your instructions, would give you NO accurate measure of international donut standards.

(Their donuts are perfectly acceptable, as I remember, but I tend to not be able to stop until I am queasy....and you don't want THAT, do you?)

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 12:59 PM

Here....pic & address...YOU go... then stop by my place for some GOOD coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 12:59 PM

Heh! Heh! Well, no, I don't want you getting queasy, Bill.

(By the way, have you heard that Sarah Palin is shortly going to co-host a political commentary program with Ann Coulter? It'll be on Fox.)

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 01:04 PM

Nice photo. Boy, does that EVER look like a typical Dunkin' Donuts location. Sheesh.

Say, I'm really impressed by one thing, though...the way the highway people in Maryland paint the little white street names and chevrons right there on the side of the road over the yellow line near the corner...and in that super-white high reflective paint that just stands out so clear! Wow. It's really an eye-catcher. They sort of do it at a neat angle too, so it's easier to read. Clever.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 01:17 PM

The highway people in Maryland?? That's Googles addition..*grin* MD. could stand to use some of that paint to mark the lanes better! When it rains, many of the lines just disappear.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 01:19 PM

"..Sarah Palin is shortly going to co-host a political commentary program with Ann Coulter? It'll be on Fox.)"

You mean...*gasp* ..MSNBC backed out!

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Peace
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 01:22 PM

This guy took LH's advice and HE'S happy, Bill.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 01:23 PM

Dunking??

The Tea Cosy in Brighton, England- Dunking biscuits is strictly prohibited. Resting elbows on tables, clinking of spoons while stirring and being rude about the Royal Family are all offenses punishable by immediate expulsion.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 01:33 PM

Forgot to give the website of the Tea Cosy

Their rules and tea menus are worth a look.
Tea Cosy

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 01:35 PM

Oh, I'm sure all their patrons are very happy with their genteel, inoffensive socializing...*grin*.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 01:41 PM

I'm ....ummmm.... sure that the Tea Cosy would not approve of this behavior

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 01:53 PM

Q - I bet the Tea Cosy is where Penelope Rutledge goes when she visits Brighton.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Peace
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 01:54 PM

Brighton--where life's a real beach.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 01:58 PM

Yes Peace......and oft given over to memoirs

Spaw.................

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 02:10 PM

That little tea shop has make a fortune from tourists seeking the real England.

Who is Penelope Rutledge? Is she the rich heroine of that Regency Romance series put out by Signet?

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 03:16 PM

Mobile phones must not be used in the main tearoom under any circumstances. If you have the desire to use your mobile phone please step out the front of the shop and stand to the side.

The un-savoury habit of dunking biscuits' is strictly prohibited and will result in you being ask to leave the tea rooms.

There is a correct way to hold your cup and saucer. Pick up your cup and saucer together-holding the saucer in one hand and the cup in the other.

Seems to me if they are going to put on such thick airs they ought to look to their proofreading a bit better. Really!! Publishing such gaffes is simply not done!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Peace
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 03:31 PM

I would fit right in there. Pinky in the air. Are ya allowed to make slurping sounds? And would they throw me out for wiping my hands on my jeans?

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: gnu
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 04:05 PM

Jean might.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 04:43 PM

Q - If you have to ask who Penelope Rutledge is, my good man, you are clearly not among the cognoscienti and probably beyond any possibility of redemption.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: gnu
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 04:47 PM

Is Penny herself affroted?

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 04:52 PM

It is truly wonderful that Little Hawk can not only people his imaginary world with imaginary people with the most bizarre collection of traits and affectations, but that he can then act superior toward those who cannot see his imaginary playmates! But he might remember that when Chinga first appeared to lay claim to her birthright, as Chongo's long-suffering abandoned sister, Little Hawk pretended not to know her!! He had the nerve to pretend she was some mere figment!! Talk about a double standard!



A

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Peace
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 04:55 PM

HERE'S a double standard.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: gnu
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 04:55 PM

Youse need a doubledouble from Tim's. And a large bits.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 04:57 PM

That's because she was YOUR figment, you silly man! Why do I even have to point that out? You have not attained any sort of stature in the world of figmentation from which Chongo Chimp sprang, and you should have the grace to admit it and crawl off miserably to haunt some lesser imaginary realm. For instance, you could get a job writing Teletubbies episodes...

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Peace
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 05:00 PM

They seem not to have said no to drugs. IMO, of course. FAWK.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: ranger1
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 05:41 PM

oh, dear. The rules of the Tea Cozy have me dying to go there - and break them. Does that make me an evil person?

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 06:03 PM

Ah, how the threads DO drift......☺

(Tami...it might be as much fun if you went to Dunkin' Donuts and followed Tea Cosy rules..)

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 06:24 PM

I don't want to appear 'terribly Hinglish' here, old chaps, but...I think you'll find it's......

DOUGHNUTS

...if we're being Tea Cosy Correct.   

I mean, you try and order a DONUT at the Tea Cosy shop and you may get one of these!

YIKES!

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 06:25 PM

Bill, I'll BUY you a doughnut.....if.....IF, you tell me how you make your own Smiley! ;0)

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 06:37 PM

(note...*I* spell it right ordinarily, but in here, I often get lazy & follow tradition...as tradition has become one of cute shorthand)

☺ alt 1


<big>alt 1</big>



that is, left bracket, type 'big' then right bracket, then hold down alt key and press 1.... then brackets again with /big inside

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 06:39 PM

you can leave out the 'big', or use more code to make it even larger...or bold...or in color....

alt 2 gives

☻

(if it works)

I like simple doughnuts....no powdered sugar

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 06:46 PM

I keep a copy of this chart on my own computer.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 07:05 PM

Thanks, Bill, but..I can't do it! :0(

I think Joe fixed it so my compooter won't do that! ;0)

Here, have a green doughnut on me, as a thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 08:35 PM

Heck with all that hotmail stuff, I know that doughnut shop... Okay, maybe I know that doughnut shop...

Is it around the corner from Chuck Levin's Music Shop???

If so, I know that doughnut shop...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: meself
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 09:58 PM

Sorry, folks, but:

"Hold the saucer under your cup while you sip your tea (least you should spill or dribble)."


I would never set foot in a greasy-spoon overseen by anyone boorish enough to compose and publish the above. Not even in the service of irony.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 10:05 PM

☺

is also accomplished by including the code "&#" followed by "9786;" with no quotation marks or spaces between the characters.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 10:07 PM

Its now half Baskin Robbins and half Dunkin DOnuts.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Peace
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 10:08 PM

That is one strange saucer, Amos.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 10:10 PM

Sarah Plain Ann Coulter and Fox's Kelly...

In a NEW SHOW CALLED

Cheney's Angels.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 10:10 PM

Well, at least it's a happy saucer, and not flying around scaring people.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 12:06 AM

Donuel, that is a truly horrifying concept for a new TV show! Wow. ;-D I bet it would be quite a success.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Severn
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 01:59 AM

We used to, for years in the DC area, have a local outfit called Montgomery Doughnuts whose doughnuts put Dunkin's to shame, but alas, MoDo is no more (not even quasi). I believe their Rockville bakery where they were made had damage in a blizzard some years ago, and they never came back, but on the hole, their's was the better doughnut. I had some decent barley soup once in a Dunkin years ago.

I also bought doughnuts all around for those at my workplace there at Dunkin in Rockville on my way to work when my girl was born. Even if it had been a boy, too many people, including myself didn't smoke cigars....

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: meself
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 10:33 AM

"but on the hole, their's was the better doughnut"

Of course, the hole is generally considered of lesser import than the rest of the doughnut - how did the actual material substance of the doughnut compare?

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Severn
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 10:43 AM

You could order little round "doughnut holes" there, too. They were of no import at all, either. They were baked right there on the premises.

They were a superior product to Dunkin', though....

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: clueless don
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 08:53 AM

Donuel, many Dunkin Donuts in the DC suburbs have indeed become combination Dunkin Donuts/Baskin & Robbins. But the one at Georgia Ave. and Reedie Drive in downtown Wheaton, MD is still a pure Dunkin Donuts - I was there just this morning.

Severn, I certainly remember Montgomery Doughnuts. My recollection is that they had excellent cake doughnuts. But for their chocolate frosted raised doughnuts, they committed the ultimate sin - before they put on the chocolate frosting, they glazed the doughnuts!! Oh, the humanity!

Don
(doughnut connoisseur, who needs a life)

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: PoppaGator
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 01:21 PM

"...They were baked right there on the premises."

Pedant alert:

Doughnuts/donuts are NOT baked, ever. They're deep-fried.

(I'm pretty sure this is an absolute truth, part of the deifnition of what a donut is. If not, it can certainly be said that MOST donuts are deep-fried.)

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 03:19 PM

The true doughnut, as well as the beignet, is deep-fried, as stated by PoppaGator. The name first appeared in 1803, listed as 'American' in a British paper, but the mention by Washington Irving, 1809, is usually cited. A Dutch origin is possible (see online articles).

There is a baked 'doughnut,' sometimes seen in supermarket bakeries, but it lacks flavor, character, presence, and doesn't deserve mention.

Here is a beignet recipe, PoppaGator may have a better one:

1 1/2 cups warm water
Dissolve 1 envelope active drt yeast in the water;
let stand 5 minutes.
--------
1/2 cup sugar, fine granulated
1 teaspoon salt (or less)
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup evaporated milk
7 cups flour
1/4 cup shortening (softened)

Oil (lard best)... for the deep frying

Powdered sugar
Touches of cinnamon, or... (optional)

Add sugar, salt, beaten egg and evaporated milk to the water-yeast mixture and whisk or blend with mixer. Add 4 cups of the flour and beat till smooth. Add shortening and slowly mix in rest of flour.
Cover and chill overnight.
Roll out on floured board, 1/8 inch thick. Cut into 3-inch squares.
Deep fry for 2-3 minutes at 360 F. (until lightly browned).

Drain and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 03:31 PM

Bill, quick!!! Run outside and look up at the sky!

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 03:48 PM

Where? Where?

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Spleen Cringe
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 04:03 PM

Don't try this at the Cosy Tea Room...

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 05:02 PM

It's a bird, it's a plane...it's......hmmmm? it's gray & overcast.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: M.Ted
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 11:23 PM

Late to the party, as usual--my wife's non-profit was in the County office building across the street from this Dunkin' Donuts, and I've had coffee, donuts, and even sandwiches from there, many times. However, there is a good Italian bakery behind the shop and several doors down, as well as an Indonesian bakery across Georgia Avenue. There are many little ethnic restaurants within a stones through, and, of course, Chuck Levin's is right around the corner as well, and, as BillD knows full well, only a short walk from the Royal Mile Pub, which is frequented by Mudcatters and their fellow travellers, and where one can be served haggis.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Jul 09 - 12:35 AM

I was just seeing if I could get you away from your computer, Bill... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Jul 09 - 02:30 PM

Note..1½ hrs between admonition and my reply...where I was both in the shop and outside cutting up stuff to take TO the shop.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yep, M.Ted... the Wheaton Triangle area has just about everything one needs, and much that one doesn't.
Also...The Barbarian Bookstore, everything about comics & science fiction

"...a good Italian bakery behind the shop..." ..you means Marchone's? They also make subs & sell many Italian specialties. I used to go down there & hang over the counter, watching to be sure the guy did NOT put onions on my sub.

Now one entire little strip-mall area is being razed....I have no idea what is going in there.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Jul 09 - 05:38 PM

"where I was both in the shop and outside cutting up stuff to take TO the shop"

Yeah, sure... ;-) Prove it, Bill. Chongo says you were probably surfing the "Whambo" sites during that 1 1/2 hours. I'm not sure what he means by that, exactly, but...well, he uses a lot of the ape patois, you know.

When I asked him what he meant by it he just moved one hand up and down several times and made a bunch of "ehhn-unhhn-ehhn-uhhn" sounds, kind of like an old rocking chair squeaking...

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Jul 09 - 06:55 PM

Prove it??? I can take pictures...Can Chongo tell time and read dates?

(Sounds like he is more familiar with those sites than I am)..."Whambo"?? Didn't he get to be Gov. of California?

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Amos
Date: 30 Jul 09 - 07:03 PM

Ya know, that Chongo is really a fleabitten low-life, ill mannered hooligan sort of a character, and it leads one to wonder why LH invests so much attention in his generation and maintenance. I mean, if you're going to go to that much trouble to inculcate agreement on a reality, why not choose something less appalling and reprehensible? Projection?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Bill D - Go to Dunkin' Donuts!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Jul 09 - 12:51 AM

"why not choose something less appalling and reprehensible?"

Stupid question! Because it wouldn't be as much fun, that's why.