Who Likes Krispy Kreme Doughnuts???!!!???

[hooverwheelaway]

Enough to do something like this?

((Be sure to check out the pictures, they really make the story))

Yay for southern traditions!

~Fred

http://www.newsobserver.com/print/sunday/city_state/story/905534.html

 

[oldhouseman]

frosted or plain

Dude, I remember waiting for the fresh batch in the morning at the one in downtown Atlanta after a saturday night out. Late 70's. The smell of those fresh donuts drew people in bright and early. A dozen, wow, couldn't handle that then or now.

 

[petek]

Uggghh I can barely stomach one Krispy Kreme. They're way way way too sweet for my liking, sort of like drinking a glass of liquid sugar.

 

[easyspindry]

Home of Krispy Kreme

Krispy Kremes are wonderful. My favorite is the chocolate iced cake.

The home of KK is my hometown, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It sure smells good when they're making a new batch.

Let's hope the greed of the corporate management doesn't ruin a good, old company.

Jerry Gay

 

[aquarius1984]

I adore Krispy Kremes

And only available from Harrods last time I checked a coupla years ago when I had my last batch. They say when you take a bite of your first one you uncontrollably mutter Mmmmmm, I did myself much to most amusement of my work colleagues who told me this after my first bite had been munched on. Rob

 

[volvoguy87]

Ahh Krispy Kreme...

When I was at college in Fredericksburg, VA (2000-2004) the closest Krispy Kreme was on Broad Street in Richmond, an hour south. Sometimes on afternoons after class in the middle of the week, my friends and I would pile into my trusty '87 Volvo 240 because it was the oldest and highest-mileage car any of us owned. We had our our own tradition governing the acquisition of Krispy Kremes. First we drove there. Second, we went in the side door and we each picked a donut early on the assembly line. Thrid, we would follow our individual donuts as they made their way down all the conveyors, the fryer, the flipper, the other fryer, and the glazer. As soon as our individual donuts came out of the glazer, we would indicate to the person behind the counter which donuts we wanted. We would buy them and consume them on the spot, still hot, as god intended.
We also got a box of a dozen fresh donuts and coffee, which we would consume at the Krispy Kreme, because donuts just need coffee. Finally, we each bought a dozen more to take back to campus and share with friends. A 2 1/2 hour round trip in an ancient car for donuts!

I miss college,
Dave

 

[bobbyderegis]

We had our first KK in Boston about 3 years ago. They built a beautiful place, with a drive thru and huge neon sign. Opening day they gave free donuts and the lines were around the block. Apparently the fad faded fast. It closed last year. Dunkin Donuts still rules the area, still opening more and more stores. Personally, I wouldn't eat any of those artery pluggers if I was starving. And the coffee is way overpriced.
Bobby in Boston

 

[perc-o-prince]

I've had KK in PA at a convenience store (not fresh out of the fryer unfortunately), but I wonder if their staff get as many of the orders wrong as DD does!

Chuck

 

[washabear]

All of our KKs went out of business about 2 years ago. They were very popular when they first opened in the late 1990s, but then they seemed to fizzle. Guess they couldn't make a go of it here. Funny enough, one site now houses a T-Mobile store, as if that is going to last!

I don't eat donuts often, so I can't judge KK against any of the others.

 

[nmaineman36]

We even had Krispy Kreme donuts in the grocery stores here...Shaws to be exact. They closed the one in Saugus on Rt. 1 and turned it into a...gasp...a bank. Like we need another friggin bank. They also had a nice store in Medford...thats gone too. They had plans for New England but it didnt come to be. That damn Atkins diet came and people stayed away. Now Dunkin Donuts are all over the place...I think that there are too many of them and the donuts are not that great.
One place that I will have to say worth the drive if you live in the Boston area is Kane's Donuts. Its a hole in the wall kinda place but man the donuts are to die for. And the coffee cakes are huge...as big as a dinner plate and unbelievably delicious.

 

[spoodles]

They have opened a drive-thru Krispy Kreme restuarant (seriously!) in Manchester UK.

They are spreading like the plague over here over the last few years.

Over-priced muck!

 

[petek]

I think there was something in the business newspapers awhile back about them over expanding and closing stores, near bankruptcies etc. Seems there's only 6 in Canada,, the one in Calgary , one around toronto and a few in Quebec.
Tim Hortons rules here in Canada for donuts anyways

 

[dixieland]

mmm

I love KK! Of course, I'm Southern so I am programmed to like them.

 

[launderess]

NYC banned trans fats, and that was the end of most if not all KC stores in our area.

Would stop in my local now and then for six honey dipped, telling myself they were for the next several days. NOT! *LOL* Would get home and make a nice pot of coffee and scarf down the lot!

L.

 

[sudsmaster]

I prefer the more traditional raised glazed donut. Warm squishy KK donuts were a bit of a novelty, but I agree that they are way too sweet for my taste, without much other flavor. I didn't know that KK's were full of trans fats, but I'm guessing that most donuts are. If I knew of a trans-fat free donut I would much prefer that.

There was a time when I would have no problem eating 12 donuts in a row, but these days I'm well aware of the negative side effects of that much refined carb/sugar and wouldn't try to kill myself that way... ;-)

 

[gyrafoam]

Honey puhleeez-----I'm so suthun-----

my childhood visits to the KK on Ponce are a wonderful memory.

In my mind nothing says doughnuts like KK.

 

[launderess]

Most donuts are fried, though there are some which are baked. Frying usually takes place in "Crisco" type shortening, which is was trans fat). Either way what you've got is dough, fried in fat, coated with sugar, honey, icing or some other form of sugar; not a very healthy thing to eat too much of on a daily basis.

Give me a good bear claw any day!

L.

 

[gansky1]

People refer to them at Krusty Krime around here. These stores open, are a flash in the pan for a while forcing locally owned bakeries out of business and then the fad dies out leaving a fried pastry void - criminal!

I can eat one if they're fresh and still warm-ish, but run shrieking any other time. Rancid and tough after a short while.

 

[dalangdon]

I love me some donuts!

When I worked at the Four Seasons Hotel, they would have a big tray of donuts from the Pike Place Market out every morning in the employee cafeteria. I could eat two or three humongous jelly donuts and never have to worry about getting fat, mostly because I had to run up four flights of stairs about ten times a day, going from the basement to the convention floor (it's one of those old timey hotels that has very few staff elevators)

When KK opened here, we had a taste test: Krispy Kremes versus donuts from the bakery at the Pike Place Market. The market won hands down, and we kept buying "local"

Nowadays, we have a local chain called Top Pot, and they have the best donuts EVER, but I won't touch 'em. I don't have that staircase to navigate anymore