Second rate doughuts?...naaah...4th rate!

[caddmannq]

We got a Krispy Kreme doughnut franchise here a while back, but I never go there. Someone brought in a dozen to the office today.

Geeze, their stock is spiking, and they're building franchise outlets all over the nation, and I just can't understand it. After all the Krispy Kreme hype and hoopla, I just gotta rant, because these things suck!

I don't know where you guys have been eating doughnuts all your lives, but Judy's doughnuts are bigger, taste better, and cost a buck a dozen less. Foster's doughnuts are better and cheaper too. Capitol doughnuts are better, and they used to be the worst in town. Until Krispy Kreme showed up!

I picked one doughnut up, and it was tiny, emaciated, and weightless by comparison. I bit into one, and hit mostly air, and the rest was pretty tasteless after a real doughnut. I ate one with sugar glaze, and the glaze was really good, but the basic doughnut sucked! The cream filled ones were tiny, and have like 1/4 teaspoon of filling! What's the point?

I hated them!

3 strikes Krispy Kreme! You're outa here!

[BobOmega]

heh. i'm not all that fond of them either. sure i'll eat em... but thats not the point. i like giant eagles raised glazed ones. oh man they are like 3x -5x (not sure i just made a guess) as big as the kremes and have ALOT of glaze on them. mmmm mmmm good.

[surreal]

Then you haven't had one fresh from the shop still warm...
I can't imagine how they can be sold in stores. Their claim to fame in Florida was they were warm when you went through the drive thu to buy them..
But your description of the store bought jobs is right on.

[SeanC]

They're expanding into Canada. I've got one fairly close by my apartment.

I've never eaten a donut that's so heavy. I'm quoting one of my friends "It feels like a brick sitting in my stomach."

Of course I might just be used to Tim Horton's donuts (the big Canadian coffee and donut chain). They're stuff is light not heavy.

I have eaten Krispy Kreme fresh from the donut shop. Uck!!

It's just not normal for a donut to still be fresh after 5 days!! The amount of lard in those things is disgusting!! I read a report that eating one Krispy Kreme donut is the equivalent of eating 3 or 4 Tim Horton's donuts (health wise). Donuts aren't healthy eating but Tim Horton's are less unhealthy for you.

Sean

[caddmannq]

Well these came right from the drive-thru, but there must be a wide gap in the quality. I thought they were too light. Fulla air.

[gjimene2]

same here with me, I hate the fact that they are light.

I am still a Dunkin' Donuts type of guy.

you know, the ones that when you eat them will kill you of high cholesterol. Too bad they took them off here. But Donuts that are big and not air filled get my vote

Oh yea, I also hate hot donuts.

I don't know where in the world does Crown Plumbing here in my area gets their donuts, but it comes in a white box, and they get two kind along with donut holes. they get plain dough, which are semi sweet and real good, and glazed, which are sweeter and great I prefer the non glazed though

I like them to be big and hearty

[Whir]

Who needs a franchise when you can be Eggvist right in the store?!? Yes, that probably isn't spelled right.

We used to have a Dunkin' Donuts here. Now that building houses the local dial up ISP. Weird.

[osprey4]

We seem to be experiencing a proliferation of Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins. I find DD pretty mediocre.

Sure do miss Winchell's (in OR). Also miss Plush Pippin for pies. Yummmmmmmm!!!

[willy_ph]

I have eaten Krispy Kreme fresh from the donut shop. Uck!!

I have to agree with that comment SeanC. Timmy's donuts are far superior to those made by Krispy Kreme. It's definitely wrong for the donuts to be fresh after the first day.
:runs off to puke at the thought of KK donuts:

[NeoStarO1]

I had heard of krispy kreme before but i thought it was some internet clown joke not relizing it was a business. Till after I read this thread and relized my blunder.

So I had thought to myself, well im glad there is no krispy kreme here and don't have to deal with what sounds awfully yucky to me. I breathed a sigh of relieve a tad too early. On my way to Winco this moring and I saw new construction and looked to see what they were building. ACK!! Its a krispy kreme!!!!!

Well now i know to stay away.

[MDdan]

Hot Fresh Now Krispee Kremes.....oh yeah!

Glazed are the way to go, the other kinds are just a distraction. Get em while their hot and they melt in your mouth.

Awesome donuts, I'll take them over anything else.

ummmmm, gotta go now.....craving some Krispee Kremes.

[vass0922]

haha I've only had the mouth watering ones once.. and yes they were very good

They were still hot, and glazed...
Generally glazed donuts are BORING and bland... I won't bother with them...

But I'll guarantee I was lickign my fingers after those donuts Yummy!
Maybe its just those left coast weird people
(and canadians.. well nobody listens to them anyways )
Although I'd kill for a Timmy's cappucino!!!
heh, cracked me up there in Mississauga there's a Timmy's independant store on one corner, and a Timmy's in a gas station RIGHT across from it
Gee do you think they're popular?

[sharder8]

I miss Tim Horton's donuts!

I miss Polo Park!

I miss the Hudson Bay store!

I miss Ye Olde Spagetti Factory!

I don't miss the cold!

Harder

[George VII]

I like the plain ones, and their chocolate covered ones. But only when they are fresh and warm.

Quite frankly though, I like plain old fashioned donuts better!

[SeanC]

Hey Vass,

I live near those two Tim's in Mississauga. It's odd. There are Tim Horton's donut shops popping up on almost every corner in the major cities now. I still prefer them to Krispy Kreme though. Uck...

Sean

[Chuckiechan]

Krispy Kreme made donuts fashionable again! The bagel shops are suffering now and the little mom & pop donut shops are doing great!

Personally I think they are too small, too sweet, and too expensive. They are good, but more like candy rather than a quick carb & sugar meal before a days outing...

My .02

[jerrygarcia]

If you ever visit Kansas City, go to the Original Lamar's doughnuts. There is nothing better than Lamar's. Krispy Kreme challenged Lamar's to a taste test 'doughnut off' and Lamar's laughed at them.

[Toddly]

I was sadly disappointed in Krispy Kremes. There was such a fuss over them when they arrived in the Bay Area. I tried them twice to make sure that they were just that bad.

[surreal]

Originally posted by caddmannq
Well these came right from the drive-thru, but there must be a wide gap in the quality. I thought they were too light. Fulla air.

No kidding! But that means they are missing a lot of calories too

[RedFury]

Our grocery store is selling them for crying out loud. You shoulda seen it when they opened the first store...Literally had police directing traffic for 2 straight months...Pathetic.