http://www.ohbiteit.com/2013/08/kris...e-waffles.html

I don't plan on making these, but they look fun. Butter and syrup are
not necessary. I bet they smell wonderful while they brown. I wonder
how they would sell as a bake sale or concession/fundraiser item if you
could make them on demand.

Tara

On 11/2/2013 7:01 AM, Tara wrote:
> http://www.ohbiteit.com/2013/08/kris...e-waffles.html
>
> I don't plan on making these, but they look fun. Butter and syrup are
> not necessary. I bet they smell wonderful while they brown. I wonder
> how they would sell as a bake sale or concession/fundraiser item if you
> could make them on demand.
>
> Tara
>

That looks dangerous. I won a box of those doughnuts last week. It's a
rare item in this state because they have to be flown in from Maui. I
ate one and thought it was ok but nobody in my family wanted to partake.
My wife took it to work. She works with a bunch of fat doughnut eaters.
If I had seen this earlier, I'd have made it. I have a waffle iron...

Wow - more white flour and sugar to keep ya healthy.

I never liked even the NAME Krispy Kreme. That misspelling alone turned me off.

On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 21:59:39 +0000, MotoFox >
wrote:

> Quoth Kalmia~
>
> > I never liked even the NAME Krispy Kreme. That misspelling alone turned
> > me off.
>
> I can't even walk into the (I guess we should write it "Crispy Cream"?)
> store. The strong greasy smell alone literally makes me sick enough to
> almost vomit.
>
> Tried one once that somebody brought in to work and was far from
> impressed. I'll take a $0.70 #2505 at Fred Meyer's over one of those
> things any day!

I never understood the hype either. They taste great fresh out of the
fryer and still warm, but what donut doesn't? After they cool,
they're just cold, lumps of lard. KK first opened in North
Carolina.... you get the drift.

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On 2013-11-02 6:29 PM, sf wrote:

> I never understood the hype either. They taste great fresh out of the
> fryer and still warm, but what donut doesn't? After they cool,
> they're just cold, lumps of lard. KK first opened in North
> Carolina.... you get the drift.
>

Should that not read"..... just cold, lumps of lard and sugar"?
Krispee Kreme opened a couple outlets in Canada but according to their
on-line store locator, they have expanded to a grand total of 5. They
have not managed to compete with Tim Horton's donut shops, even though
they launched here after Hortons had already stooped to the inferior
par-baked product.

Dave Smith > wrote in
:

> They
> have not managed to compete with Tim Horton's donut shops,
> even though they launched here after Hortons had already
> stooped to the inferior par-baked product.

With Timmie's being as common in Canada (3000, as well as 556 in
the US and lest we forget the one at KAF Base) as Starbucks is in
the US (13,279 so not quite a 1:1 per capita...more like 1:.04),
there aren't enough retail locations left for Kwispy Kweme. Oh, I
change my mind. They could take over the 231 closed KFC and Taco
Bell outlets in Ontario and British Columbia.

http://www.torontosun.com/money/2011.../17826611.html

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from happening.

-- Barbara Tober

On 11/2/2013 6:39 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2013-11-02 6:29 PM, sf wrote:
>
>> I never understood the hype either. They taste great fresh out of the
>> fryer and still warm, but what donut doesn't? After they cool,
>> they're just cold, lumps of lard. KK first opened in North
>> Carolina.... you get the drift.
>>
>
> Should that not read"..... just cold, lumps of lard and sugar"?
> Krispee Kreme opened a couple outlets in Canada but according to their
> on-line store locator, they have expanded to a grand total of 5.

One opened maybe 30 miles from me at the height of the Krispy Kreme
resurgence. I've only had one that I bought in a supermarket.
I have a sweet tooth but this was painfully so.

> They
> have not managed to compete with Tim Horton's donut shops, even though
> they launched here after Hortons had already stooped to the inferior
> par-baked product.

Like Dunkin Donuts. Not that I'm a big fan of donuts but they
used to have some that I liked. Now they're trucked in.

nancy

On 11/2/2013 8:55 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 11/2/2013 6:39 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

>> Should that not read"..... just cold, lumps of lard and sugar"?
>> Krispee Kreme opened a couple outlets in Canada but according to their
>> on-line store locator, they have expanded to a grand total of 5.
>
> One opened maybe 30 miles from me at the height of the Krispy Kreme
> resurgence. I've only had one that I bought in a supermarket.
> I have a sweet tooth but this was painfully so.

I only tried them a couple times when someone brought them from the
Mississauga outlet.I was not impressed. They were way too sweet.


>
> Like Dunkin Donuts. Not that I'm a big fan of donuts but they
> used to have some that I liked. Now they're trucked in.


Hortons donuts used to be made in store. In some cases, usually where
one person had a number of frnchise stores in an area, one store would
make them for the sister stores. There were pretty good, but not
consistent. Then they started the par baked nonsense and they went way
downhill. Krispee Kreme arrived here after that major downgrade, and
they still could not compete.

On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 20:55:57 -0400, Nancy Young
> wrote:

> Like Dunkin Donuts. Not that I'm a big fan of donuts but they
> used to have some that I liked. Now they're trucked in.

When I was a teenager, we had two Dunkin' Donuts here (good donuts,
great reputation) and I thought they were just a local chain. It
wasn't until I'd been reading RFC for years that I found out
otherwise.

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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Our new Dunkin shop makes them on site. Maybe the mixes are trucked in....

N.

On 11/3/2013 1:10 AM, MotoFox wrote:
> Quoth Nancy Young~
>
>> Like Dunkin Donuts. Not that I'm a big fan of donuts but they used to
>> have some that I liked. Now they're trucked in.
>
> I used to like Dunkin Doughnuts too, but what the hell happened to them?
> They had several locations around here, particularly in the '80s, but
> pretty much all disappeared from this area throughout the end of the
> '90s-early 2000s. Think the closest one to me at last was at least a good
> 15 miles down I205, in Clackamas.

That's funny to me, because that's the time frame when Dunkin Donuts
exploded, seemed like they opened one on every corner within the
space of a couple of years. Same time they stopped making the donuts
at the store. Much cheaper to open a location if you don't have to
have a kitchen, practically, I guess.

I read that donuts are really a small part of their business, it's
the drive through coffee that makes them their money.

> Do they even exist on the west coast today?

I have no idea, I thought they were everywhere in the states.

I first noticed they were everywhere in the Boston area. Thought
it maybe was my imagination until I took the Duck Tour and the
guide mentioned that Boston had more Dunkin Donuts per capita
than anywhere else. After that trip is when the number of
locations quintupled where I live, so who knows if that's still true.

nancy

On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 06:10:34 +0000, MotoFox >
wrote:

> Do they even exist on the west coast today?

DD's store locator sucks, so I had to Google the information. There
are three outlets well within 10 miles of where I live. Didn't check
the East Bay.

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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

On 2013-11-03 1:04 AM, MotoFox wrote:
> Quoth Dave Smith~
>
>> Should that have read "..... just cold, lumps of lard and sugar"?
>> Krispee Kreme opened a couple outlets in Canada but according to their
>> on-line store locator, they have expanded to a grand total of 5. They
>> have not managed to compete with Tim Horton's doughnut shops, even
>> though they launched here after Hortons had already stooped to the
>> inferior par-baked product.
>
> Do you know that in the two years I lived in Victoria (2002-2004) I never
> once went to Tim Horton's or consumed any of their products? Don't know
> why, actually. Guess I just never got round to it.
>
> I feel gypped.
>

If you lived Victoria you probably had a wide variety of choices. The
last time I was in Victoria I was in a coffee shop one a street corner
and there were coffee shops on the other three corners of that
intersection and a few more down the street. None of them were Hortons.

I am not saying Horton's is great. Their coffee and their donuts used to
be better. The thing is that they have had competition from a number of
other franchises and the others have not ousted them from their number
one spot. Despite the Krispy Kreme hype, they never managed to even get
away from the starting gate.

On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 06:04:46 +0000, MotoFox >
wrote:

> Do you know that in the two years I lived in Victoria (2002-2004) I never
> once went to Tim Horton's or consumed any of their products? Don't know
> why, actually. Guess I just never got round to it.
>
> I feel gypped.

After being on one of only two flights that were cancelled during one
of Rome's ubiquitous general strikes, we were rerouted through Germany
and changed planes in Calgary, Canada for the last leg home. I
spotted a Tim Horton's in the terminal and was about to get a cup of
coffee when we were called to board our connecting flight. That was
the least amount of time I've ever spent making a connection, so
although I was glad I could be on my way quickly - I feel cheated too.


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On 11/2/2013 1:01 PM, Tara wrote:

> http://www.ohbiteit.com/2013/08/kris...e-waffles.html
>
> I don't plan on making these, but they look fun. Butter and syrup are
> not necessary. I bet they smell wonderful while they brown. I wonder
> how they would sell as a bake sale or concession/fundraiser item if you
> could make them on demand.
>
> Tara
>

Yeesh, a stack that size must be several thousand calories.

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