The Magic Is In The Hole!

[Ravenbomb 0]

top 10 Chains:

 

McDonalds 56.7 Billion

KFC 14.2

BK 12.1

Starbucks 10.3

Subway 10

Pizza Hut 9.3

Wendy's 8.8

Taco Bell 6.5

Dominos 5.1

Dunkin Donuts 5

 

Ha. Fuck you, Krispy Kreme, Dunkin' Donuts is STILL out-selling your shitty donut having ass!

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

Shitty? Shitty??

 

Fuckin' fite me u poser. Krispy Kreme turns your browneye pink.

[King Kamala 0]

Krispy Kreme is a bit overrated but in no way are they worse than Dunkin fuckin' Donuts. Dunkin Donuts are a step above Hostess donuts. I mean when my grease trap needs filling every couple months, I'll get a Chocolate Creme Donut there but if I had the choice I wouldn't pick it over Krispy Kreme (the nearest KK is 4-5 hours away). I just don't get it when displaced New Englanders wax nostalgiac for Dunkin' Donuts. Is the donut situation that bad for the rest of the country that people are jonesing for the Pizza Hut of Donuts?

 

The draw to Dunkin Donuts for me in the past few years has been the hot chocolate. Especially the Milky Way kind. Fantastic stuff.

[Guest Cal Moriarty]

Oh, Krispy Kreme wipes the floor with Dunkin' Donuts. Everything is better than Dunkin' Donuts. Now, admittedly, the donut is a foodstuff often regretted, that or it was good but you didn't want it as much as you thought you did, but I've never gone to Dunkin' Donuts and been like "that was fulfilling."

 

How do displaced New Englanders "wax nostalgic" for Dunkin' Donuts? They're fucking everywhere! They're in Indonesia! It's not like they're a goddamn hole in the wall. Maybe these displaced New Englanders should be further displaced into the Gulf of Mexico.

[King Kamala 0]

Proof of idiots being obsessed with Dunkin Donuts

 

Well to play Devil's Advocate for my fellow New Englanders, Dunkin' Donuts somehow haven't really made their way to the West Coast and only started expanding down south within the past year or two. They are adding thousands and thousands of more stores but I guess those dopes missing having one on every corner here. They opened up a couple of Krispy Kreme places in the Boston area about five years ago and they all closed within a year or two. Stupid Massholes. I haven't seen so many people obsessed over a mediocre fast food chain as I have with Dunkin' Donuts. I'm an idiot who talks about fast food a bit too much but these people take the obsession way too far.

 

Another thing about Dunkin Donuts, every time I eat there, I manage to get heart burn for some reason. It doesn't matter what I eat. I get it. That's why I pretty much stick to the hot chocolate on the rare occasion I do go there.

[Ravenbomb 0]

Shitty? Shitty??

 

Fuckin' fite me u poser. Krispy Kreme turns your browneye pink.

 

I've crapped better donuts than Krispy Kreme.

[Maztinho 0]

But Dunkin' Donuts? Meh.

 

I'm still sad that the Winchell's Donuts closed in my home town. I loved that place. It was near to my high school so we could talk a teacher into letting us do a donut run on occasion and be back before the on site Officer did his rounds.

 

Edit: Krispy Kreme's are overrated though. I mean yeah they are tasty hot, but they aren't the end all be all of donuts. That being said I prefer cake donuts anyways.

[AboveAverage484 0]

I've never been a big fan of warm donuts. I like them better after they've sat in the box for almost a day, they aren't as slimy or squishy and it doesn't feel like I'm eating a circle shaped clump of icing.

[Guest Vitamin X]

I love warm donuts and everything. My favorite donut is actually from a Portland institution called Voodoo Doughnuts, which just opened a second location here in town on the east side. The first location is next to a very popular night spot in town and they're open pretty much 24 hours, but mostly late, late, late into the night. What they're most famous for is the absolute strange things they make donuts out of. My favorite? The Bacon Maple Bar:

 

It's seriously like fuckin' breakfast in your mouth. Here's more of them. They also hold doughnut eating contests on the first Friday of every month, and they even do weddings under the "Holy Doughnut". It's a super small space, but it's really awesome. Amazing to eat while drunk; their warm glazed donuts aren't as good as Krispy Kreme (but really, what is?) but everything else they have is stupendous. When not having the Bacon Maple Bar, I'll have the Voodoo or the Cap'n Crunch one.

 

 

Yeah. Top that, Dunkin Donuts and Winchell's. This needs its own topic, btw.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

Krispy Kreme ices their hot glazed donuts with an icing waterfall. That's some Wonka-type shit, Ravenbomb. Its a rotating carousel of saturated fat with this transluscent cascading ribbon of pure fucking sugardeth.

[King Kamala 0]

Hey I saw that Voodoo Donuts place on The Food Network the other day. If I ever make my way to the other Portland, I'll make it a point to stop there.

 

Donuts for me are like pizza. Even when they're bad, they're still pretty good. That being said, my favorite has to be the local institution, Tony's Donuts. Is really more or less a no frills donuts place. Doesn't have much variety- only makes about a half dozen kinds of donuts but what they do, they do damn well.

[MFer 0]

I'll eat Krispy Kreme's, but I really prefer the standard glazed donuts like the one on the left here.

 

[Nighthawk 0]

I wish I could eat one donut and just walk away.

 

Krispy Kreme is sort of like soda for me. Stayed away long enough that now it's just too much.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Back in the day, I could've easily consumed a dozen of those glazed (like the one on the right in MFer's pic). I actually remember this one Krispy Kreme in the valley, on my usual all-nighters if I was up for it, I would go and drive down there at 5am (that's when they had them hot; 24 hour locations have them and all, but they're only hot during peak hours, namely early morning and late afternoon/early evening) and bring back a dozen. Usually by the time I got home, half the box would be gone, and then the rest I'd just consume, maybe sharing a couple with my mom or something and then passing out after some milk or some shit. Yeah, those were the days when my metabolism was high enough to support that without becoming a total fatass.

[Nighthawk 0]

They didn't have KK when I lived in the valley... I don't remember when they got them, but I moved away when I was like 15 or so.

 

I should thank god they didn't too, because I would absolutely have been a total fatass. I mean, I was fairly fat, but add in X factors like KK and it would have been no coming back. I'd have looked like my brother, who outweighs me by over 100 pounds.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

When I quit hard drugs, I picked up Krispy Kreme. It actually made me feel worse.

[Guest Vitamin X]

They didn't have KK when I lived in the valley... I don't remember when they got them, but I moved away when I was like 15 or so.

 

Yeah it's in Van Nuys, actually, down the street from a porn store and around the corner from this pretty tight if not divey pool hall. Although I think that just about describes everywhere in Van Nuys.

 

But there's also one in newly gentrified Burbank right off the freeway, but that one's not 24 hours like the Van Nuys location.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Dunkin Donuts was at one point last year considering removing Donuts from the name of the chain due to the fact that Coffee is by far their #1 seller now with over 60% of sales vs donuts only making up 15% of total sales. For the official record, Kripy Kreme is #51 with 780 million in sales though Im guessing that doesnt count the donuts they ship out to other places like grocery stores, so the money could be higher in total but not even close to DD. 780 million is impressive though considering they only were listed as having 449 locations, so each store is doing about $1,750,000 in sales on nothing but donuts.

 

When my GF used to have me go get her a coffee every morning at DD (she was like 200 feet from the place), Id always get a marble frosted donut despite the fact their donuts aren't that good anymore. I finally got smart and bought her a coffee pod machine so she could have a cup of coffee cheaper (not by much) and save the trip to DD.

 

Ive never had a fresh Krispy Kreme donut, but the ones Ive gotten preboxed at the grocery store were ok, but not earth shatteringly awesome or anything. I imagine they are probably much better fresh at their actual stores. I used to love DD munchkins when I was a kid though.

 

 

[Ravenbomb 0]

Krispy Kreme ices their hot glazed donuts with an icing waterfall. That's some Wonka-type shit, Ravenbomb. Its a rotating carousel of saturated fat with this transluscent cascading ribbon of pure fucking sugardeth.

 

Fun. You know what they DON'T do with chocolate long-johns, the best kind of donut? MAKE THEM.

[Red Baron 0]

Tim Hortons still owns any American product.

 

"Two dollars for a coffee and a doughnut with change left over, nah, who would want that?"

[MFer 0]

I wish I could eat one donut and just walk away.

 

Krispy Kreme is sort of like soda for me. Stayed away long enough that now it's just too much.

Yeah...wish I could too. I had 4 this morning...such a fat-ass.

[Darthtiki 0]

Tim Hortons still owns any American product.

 

"Two dollars for a coffee and a doughnut with change left over, nah, who would want that?"

 

I want a fucking Tim's here in California...until then, I have to settle with putting in a coffee order with my cousin's fiance.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

I've never been in a Tim Hortons! I know they're ubiquitous in Canada and that they're trickling their way south, as I've seen them, I just never happened to be hungry when I was near one.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Tim's, despite the fact that I loathe it's cultural status delivers the goods when it comes to baked shit. Though they changed their croissants to a "European Style"which sucks compared to the last one. Best donut for me is probably an apple fritter or dutchie.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Dunkin Donuts are shitty except for the particularly cakey ones, like the toasted coconut or old-fashioned. KK krushes them on every other front.

 

There was a Krispy Kreme in Charlottesville my first two years in college, and it closed. I don't know how that's possible--it's a college town, and you can't tell me that drunk college kids aren't psyched about donuts in the middle of the night or the morning after. I remember one night when my roommates and I bought two boxes at midnight, a gallon of milk, and lived like kings for the next 40 minutes. Maybe it just needed to be walking distance from the population center instead of a short drive.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

Oh man college pothead Krispy Kreme benders. They went faster than an eightball on friday with girls.

[At Home 0]

Tim Hortons still owns any American product.

 

"Two dollars for a coffee and a doughnut with change left over, nah, who would want that?"

 

I want a fucking Tim's here in California...until then, I have to settle with putting in a coffee order with my cousin's fiance.

 

HAHAHA

[CanadianChris 0]

I went to a DD on my last trip to the States last month, and it was all kinds of bad. I can't figure out how Tim's hasn't completely taken over around the border yet.

[Cheech Tremendous 0]

The funny thing about Dunkin Donuts is that it's an entirely east coast/midwest thing. I don't think there are any left on the west coast. We had one here in Salem, Oregon, but it shut down earlier this year. The place was a dive.

 

Oh yeah, their coffee sucks too.

[starvenger 0]

I went to a DD on my last trip to the States last month, and it was all kinds of bad. I can't figure out how Tim's hasn't completely taken over around the border yet.

I think that they're working on the border states first. When I went down to Dayton they had 3-5 stores in fairly well placed areas. But I think that they're fighting on two fronts with Starbucks on one side and Dunkin' Donuts (which to be honest, is vile) on the other. Hard to compete when the coffee king in the US is in supermarkets and bookstores everywhere.