I live to conquer!

[gurdonark]

My wife has imported that inferior, foreign weapon of mass destruction, the Krispy Kreme Doughnut, into our humble abode. For the life of me, the Iraq metaphor I keep wanting to make keeps eluding me, because I cannnot imagine arguing with a straight face that I should invade a doughnut shop halfway across town, or that if all my friends oppose me as to neutralizing the Krispy Kreme, I should knock it over anyway. But the metaphor is there, someplace.

Comments

[voodoukween.livejournal.com]

i'm with you

they are an insult to doughnut makers everywhere

nothing but sugar and so much of it

i think i related a story here before about the invasion into our fair city two years ago and the jokes that you could take a dozen of those donut wannabes and roll them up into the size of a donut hole

give me a good old fashioned buttermilk or cake donut anytime

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

To each his or her own donut, but the Krispy Kreme Kult passes me by.

[(Anonymous)]

indian fry bread anyone? not sweet, very simple and no dumb sprinkles.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I wish I had some now! Thanks for mentioning it!

[sortofkindof.livejournal.com]

I used to hate them! But somehow they have brainwashed me - I think it was seeing them roll out all hot and juicy from the fryer...

But I still prefer "cake" style doughnuts.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I don't hate Krispy Kreme, exactly, it's just that the local chains and indies seem so much better. I'm not usually that way about chain food--I love a McDonald's sausage biscuit, for example.

There's nothing like a great cake donut, though!

[uscwriter.livejournal.com]

NoNoNo! You simply must love Krispy Kremes! They are a staple part of tthe food groups- sheer delight! I've been eating them as long as I can remember, and I think the nice black lady at the KK shop has been serving them to me that long. When I lived in Tennessee and was pregnant, a KK visit was required every time we came home to SC.

IN fact, dear husband and I went out for an anniversary dinner at a posh steak house, where they had two desserts called "hot and nows.' It was three KK slices, toasted, alternated with ice cream and covered in either caramel apple sauce or brown sugar and cinnamon.

All this talk may mean he has to make a trip today! Gamecock football and KK!

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear their appeal explained by someone whose opinion I trust. They seem fine to me, but several local chains are much more fun.

I'd rather watch SC play football. What happened last week? I love Lou Holtz. He coached my Arkansas Razorbacks when I was in college.

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[uscwriter.livejournal.com]

We lost last week- sloppy playing, like five or six fumbles and lost two (I think) interceptions. We are playing Georgia today, and they are looking for blood. It is being aired on CBS here, so maybe you can catch some of it.

Holtz is a quirky, funny man. I can see how his personality can change teams for the best. I found a book for dear husband with quotes from Holtz...

Dunkin Donuts is the only other donut chain around here, and I really like their munchkins. KK has nothing like that...

K

PS- With football, I am like that singing toad in the Bugs Bunny cartoons. I only sing Gamecock fottball, otherwise I am oblivious. I think players should be allowed to trounce the other team, if their goal is to stop someone or get the ball. I was sorely disappointed in that league last year that was supposed to be rougher football. It seemed like one long commercial with boobs in it.

[marstokyo.livejournal.com]

KK- the cotton candy of donuts.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

They're fine, but they're just a bit overplayed, I suppose. I love cotton candy, though! Fresh off the threadle! It's almost State Fair time here, and the TX one is a "big deal". I was just telling my wife I didn't think we should go, because all we like are the rabbits and goats and the shows where the herder dogs do their herding, but then she reminded me that we haven't been to the Texas Women's Museum in a while, and it has a Leibowitz show going, and now you've reminded me of cotton candy, so I guess I'm going! :)

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[marstokyo.livejournal.com]

Apologies to your dentist (or maybe he'll thank me) :-)

[nacowafer.livejournal.com]

What's with all the bashing of the yeast doughnut?! It's a beautiful thing, a work of art. I'll eat a cake doughnut, but given a choice, I'm all about the yeast. I prefer Dunkin Doughnuts to KK. Local varieties are good as well. Our Rainbow Doughnuts shop is very good.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I am more a fan of locals than of Krispy Kreme, but I love both cake and yeast. Actually, though, these days my doughnut shop trips are usually about a giant cinnamon roll and a cinnamon twist. Heaven! Oh, and croissants! The only thing I miss about CA cuisine is all the wonderful croissants!
But then, I love all breads. I love potato rolls out of those little twenty five cent bins at the supermarket. I love brown and serve rolls. I love everything.

[mockinggreylock.livejournal.com]

I first encountered Krispy Kreme doughnuts in a random roadtrip to Atlanta to meet up with some net.friends, in 96 or so. It was one of the few old KKs, wherein I oportuned to witness freshly fried doughnuts heading up (or was it down?) the rolling ramp through the pouring sheet of sugar glaze. It was a gruesome sort of anticipation. Later I discovered that all of the doughnuts were perfectly consistent with some notion of the ideal donut shape, texture, consistency, etc. Krispy Kreme is to doughnuts as Pringles are to potato chips.

Something about consistency and hobgoblins, methinks. One of the joys of homemade baked goods is the continual subtle variation. A little denser in this bite, a little crispier in the next, a good heap of sugar on this one, more cinnamon in the next (mmmm...homemade cinnamon rolls...) Ever changing :)

A Krispy Kreme doughnut can never exceed my expectations.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Now I like Pringles a good bit, so your comment helped me understand. I'll never forget when I got on an airplane across the country, and someone had dozens and dozens of KK donuts in a huge cake box, because they couldn't get them in their home town.

Now don't get me wrong, KK taste fine. I like yeast donuts, and didn't mean to attach them, either!
But local vendors taste just as good.

I guess what do I do when a donut becomes an icon?
Buy a different donut, I guess :)

Thanks for commenting.