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Cronut Craze Has Sparked $40-a-Pop Black Market for the Pastry
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| May 30, 2013
Posted on 05/30/2013 4:05:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Would you pay $40 for a doughnut? Sounds nuts, right?
A few weeks ago, we reported on the advent on the cronut --which basically is croissant dough fried like a doughnut. That was the first day the pastry was for available for sale publicly, and the first batch sold out in in just 35 minutes.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: fads
To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
05/30/2013 4:08:37 PM PDT
by
Fzob
(In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
To: nickcarraway
Only NYawkers would be credulous enough to pay up to 40 bucks for a piece of fat-soaked glop.
To: hinckley buzzard
You can bet Nazi-Nanny Bloom-Turd is on it now, writing regs to ban it.
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posted on
05/30/2013 4:27:46 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
To: nickcarraway
Hey! I’ve been frying Pepperidge Farm turnovers for years. Prior art!
To: nickcarraway
A picture being worth 1000 words, I hereby present a 1013 word post.
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posted on
05/30/2013 4:43:45 PM PDT
by
InterceptPoint
(If I had a tag line this is where you would find it)
To: InterceptPoint
To: nickcarraway
People have more money than brains.
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posted on
05/30/2013 4:59:43 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: nickcarraway
Looks yummy, but not $40 yummy.
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posted on
05/30/2013 5:04:47 PM PDT
by
Chipper
(You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
To: nickcarraway
I can get a pretty good steak dinner for 40 bucks - including a chocolate volcano cake for dessert.
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posted on
05/30/2013 5:19:17 PM PDT
by
dainbramaged
(Joe McCarthy was right.)
To: nickcarraway
These people are crazy! I was buying these at Acme
grocery stores in Akron OH since the early 90’s. 59 cents.
Now I feel special.
To: InterceptPoint
$40 would buy a pretty decent cut of meat at the local meat market. I’d have to pass on the frou frou croissant.
To: nickcarraway
Econ 101... supply and demand. The price is very likely to decline... if / when demand diminishes.
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posted on
05/30/2013 5:39:51 PM PDT
by
Teacher317
(Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast)
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