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Krispy Kreme is offering donuts for 86 cents today. But you won't be there. You'll be at Dunkin'.
Not The Bee ^ | July 14, 2023 | Staff

Posted on 07/14/2023 9:27:04 AM PDT by Red Badger

Oh look, Krispy Kreme is doing it again: They're nearlygiving away their donuts!

On Friday, July 14, customers can score a dozen original glazed donuts for just 86 cents with the purchase of a regular-priced dozen donuts.

Now, you may ask yourself in wonder: "Gee, how is it that Krispy Kreme could afford to sell a dozen donuts for just 86 cents? That's just seven cents per donut!"

And I got the answer for you right here: Their donuts just aren't that good.

We all know it. You can admit it here. This is a safe space.

Yes, Krispy Kreme donuts are covered in a shimmering, microns-thin, explosively sweet sticky glaze. At first it seems incredible.

But then you realize that the only reason they go to all that trouble is to conceal donuts which are little more than like 1/3 of an ounce of lame yeasted dough. They have to douse it in all that sugar to conceal the fact that they made pretty much no effort to make a good base-level donut.

If your donut's no good, it doesn't matter what you do to dress it up, it's still gonna be a disappointment.

Dunkin' Donuts, on the other hand, is much better. I'm not saying they're a world-class donut. They're not. Most of their donuts sort of taste like they were made in Council Bluffs, Iowa, like two weeks ago. There's no denying it.

Still. The donut itself is better. Many of their donuts are of the superior cake-based variety, more fulsome, with a better texture. Even their more pillowy yeasted-style doughs are better than Krispy Kreme's, though. It just feels like someone took more pride in making them is all.

Plus, the Dunkin' coffee is way better than Krispy's. The Krispy Kreme coffee tastes like it's been sitting on a Hobart burner for 60 years. A Dunkin' cup of coffee isn't going to win any Good Food Awards or anything, but it at least tastes like it was made at some point after the Nixon administration.

And don't forget Krispy went all-in on the Rona vax hysteria:

VIDEO AT LINK..................

Don't be lured by the siren song of cheap Krispy donuts! It's a trap! Go Dunkin' or go home!


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To: HamiltonJay

Dunkin is inedible.

KK is insanely sweet, yes, but we are talking about doughnuts here. They’re a confection. They are supposed to be sweet.

I can understand people objecting to that much pure sugar (even though I love it). I cannot understand thinking that Dunkin is better.


41 posted on 07/14/2023 9:55:39 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: Sirius Lee
The local farm stands make apple cider donuts.

The cake doughnuts are a different animal, and they hold up well to dunking in coffee. I prefer the yeasted, but I always order some plain and cinnamon cake donuts for our church coffee and donuts, as we are a TRADITIONAL church.
42 posted on 07/14/2023 9:57:12 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Red Badger

All donuts are of the debil!

Swore off those killers New Years of 2017 and haven’t touched one since.


43 posted on 07/14/2023 9:57:40 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Red Badger

Why would I take to heart the opinion of anyone promoting the blasphemy that cake based donuts are better?


44 posted on 07/14/2023 9:59:01 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: Red Badger

Well, if you happen to live in Honolulu or near a Little Tokyo, or near one of the big Japanese shopping centers like Mitsuwa across the Hudson from Harlem, you can experience it there.

Central FL, not so much, though the Cuban bakeries here and there are much better than anything gringo.


45 posted on 07/14/2023 10:00:17 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Red Badger

Our local donuts shop is better then them all (especially because it is only a few blocks away) :-)


46 posted on 07/14/2023 10:02:57 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Red Badger
The author badmouths everything about a donut institution. Go get a flax seed bar and shut up while I eat my still hot off-the-line Krispy Kreme.

We'll see who is smiling after that.

47 posted on 07/14/2023 10:04:59 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: Dr. Sivana

You sound like a girlfriend from highschool. French fries from Hardees on one side of town dunked in the chocolate shake from McD on the other side of down.


48 posted on 07/14/2023 10:05:40 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: Red Badger

Krisp Kristie will be there so you’d better hurry.


49 posted on 07/14/2023 10:07:01 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Red Badger

Except the prepacked donuts, I can’t say I have ever not enjoyed eating one, regardless of who made them.


50 posted on 07/14/2023 10:07:34 AM PDT by dgbrown
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To: Red Badger
CC basic donut is very good...addictive.....I'm on low carb so its out for me.....but they other donuts are not that great....

here in the west, it seems the best small private donut places are all run by Cambodians...

51 posted on 07/14/2023 10:07:46 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Red Badger
I love Krispy Krack. I may get some tomorrow.

But here next to The Swamp, Duck Donuts are the best.

52 posted on 07/14/2023 10:08:17 AM PDT by Lysandru
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To: Red Badger

KK Donuts ARE very good. Especially if you can sit at the shop on Bragg Blvd in Fayetteville and watch them on the conveyor belt from start to finish and be served them piping hot. They melt in your mouth like a crispy French Baggett with that disappearing white filler!

My local KK is open 24/7 and you can always watch them making the donuts.


53 posted on 07/14/2023 10:09:06 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: higgmeister

I had one at the Clairemont Square two blocks from house...

A six pack of old soda bottles returned to the liquor store and 30 cents... which became the creme filled bar — an eclair style doughnut with custard filling and chocolate icing. That was a good day when I was 8.


54 posted on 07/14/2023 10:10:59 AM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: princess leah

Here in Indy Longs Donuts are the best. Most popular for 60 years.


55 posted on 07/14/2023 10:12:59 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Dr. Sivana

Dunkin put the “ugh” in “doughnut”. I haven’t been in one for years because, as you say, the doughnuts suck now. I remember when Dunkin’ Donuts appeared in Portland in the early ‘70s; they were great. You could stop in to get a couple and watch the guy making donuts at just about any hour.


56 posted on 07/14/2023 10:14:10 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Red Badger

If you like raised donuts, I don’t think you can come close to Long’s Donuts in Indianapolis. Just don’t go there on Saturday morning...the line has been 1/4 mile long out the door!


57 posted on 07/14/2023 10:17:38 AM PDT by econjack
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To: gnarledmaw

She sounds like she was cute. I would have reversed them though. That said, I did at one point feed the entire Wallingford Republican Party when I was 15 with Hardee’s French Fries, as they ran a contest that made it easy to pile up the freebies. Fifteen year olds are good at taking advantage of such things.


58 posted on 07/14/2023 10:18:04 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Dr. Sivana

The Foodtown we went to had a bakery with a donut machine that was running all day. It would dispense a ring of dough into a tray of hot oil, it would float down along till it was flipped by an automatic paddle halfway down where at the end another paddle would lift it out and dump it into a bin. Sold a lot of donuts...fun to watch.


59 posted on 07/14/2023 10:18:45 AM PDT by W. (biden and co. must go! We need Trump back!)
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To: Red Badger
Krispy Kreme is offering donuts for 86 cents today. But you won't be there. You'll be at Dunkin'.

Who says I won't be there???

 


60 posted on 07/14/2023 10:26:25 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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